The 2009 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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Contestant Profile

TV Armor

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Contestant's Case to Win

TV Armor "the product" was born by accident. My son ruined my 2 week old $1800 LCD TV by hitting it with a toy firetruck by accident. I wanted to make sure this never happened again to myself or others, so I developed the TV Armor screen protector and built TV Armor "the company" around the product. Starting out in my garage with a 10k dollar initial investment in 2007 on 2 credit cards, my partner and myself have grown the business to over 300k in annual revenue, expanded into a large warehouse space, and are currently establishing national retail distribution for the product. Currently the vast majority of our sales are made through our Internet website http://www.tv-armor.com

As a first time business owner, it has been a long road over the past two years to get to this point and we made plenty of mistakes along the way. But, we always learned from our mistakes and moved forward to make the business a success. TV Armor is an excellent example of what a self funded startup can do with a lot of hard work and dedication.