Early Life and Career
Raised in Huntington, New York, Mangano showed a propensity for inventing at an early age when, as a teenager working at an animal hospital, she dreamed up a fluorescent flea collar to keep pets safe. When it was released the next year by Hartz Mountain, she vowed that the next time she had a great idea, she would bring it to market. After graduating from Pace University with a degree in business administration in 1978 and held a variety of jobs, including waitress and airline reservation manager, all while raising her three children as a single mother.
In 1990, she developed the prototype of her Miracle Mop. She sold the mops locally in Long Island before moving to facilities in her father's body shop in Deer Park in 1991 and incorporating her business as Arma Products, later renaming it to Ingenious Designs. Mangano sold Ingenious Designs to USA Networks, the parent company of the HSN, in 1999.
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