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Let’s start with this fun fact: As it turns out, Ben Kaufman was born and raised in Oceanside, New York, my hometown on Long Island. Though he’s one year younger than I am, he claims to remember me from those scrappy playground days before he moved away when he was 9. His memory must be Read More...
Behind every great inventor lies a great teacher. Whether it’s a parent, educator, or even a supportive friend, every great mind needs someone to guide them; to show them how to brainstorm and problem-solve; to tell them that there’s no reason they can’t make their ideas a reality. That was the thought behind the Invention Read More...
Rejoice, all ye faithful, because the time has finally come! This Friday, March 29th at 6pm ET, the Quirky staff and community will convene for the year’s first Town Meeting, a quarterly event that’s 50% shareholder meeting, 50% live Q&A, and 100% Quirky. It’s the climactic final broadcast of the quarter, and we’re pulling out Read More...
Last night, over 120 designers, reporters, planners and city officials gathered at QHQ for the finale of NYC’s Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a three-month-long project that invited the best and the brightest to re-imagine New York City’s 11,000+ payphones. In the end, over 600 concepts were submitted, but only 11 finalists were selected to be Read More...
Today is not an ordinary Friday. Due to a special project (which we will be announcing soon), we’re diverging from our normal launch schedule, and will not be launching a new product to the Upcoming section today. However, we hate to skip a beat, so we’d like to take this moment to share an awesome Read More...
Hello wonderful Quirky Community peeps! It has been a little over a month since I joined the Community team here at Quirky, and I am thoroughly enjoying every second of it. As a Community Support Representative, it occurred to me that I should introduce myself to you all; put a face to the name or nondescript Read More...
On December 21st, Ben Kaufman sent the following email to the collective Quirky staff: “Quirky is a high pressure atmosphere. We push the absolute limits of every single day we have. Doodling, Breaking, Building, Shipping, Prettying, Counting, Labeling, Collaborating, Coding, Inventing. The result of our way of working is astonishing. Output from small, resource constrained Read More...
It’s that time of year again. Pull out the Menorah and fry up some potato latkes, because Hanukkah is upon us. Many people are at least somewhat familiar with this minor Jewish holiday (mostly because it falls around Christmas), which celebrates the victory of the Maccabees and the miracle of the oil. One of the Read More...
At Quirky, we make everything with the help of an online community because we know that 300,000 minds are better than 1 (or 100). Thanks to the unique contributions of our members, we’ve been able to bring some game-changing products to market. Now imagine how awesome a sandwich menu could be with the help of Read More...
As we lay out the blueprint for our dinner plates, we’d like to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. There have been a great many things to be thankful for this year at Quirky, from the endorsement of two great venture capital firms to the tens of thousands of new members Read More...
Ominous news, makers. Hurricane Sandy is making her way towards the northeast, forcing the MTA to shut down public transit in New York City. As a result, the Quirky offices will be closed until further notice (at this time, it looks like systems should be up and running on Tuesday), but we’ll keep you up-to-date Read More...
With the exception of tax lawyers and super villains, most everyone has a favorite toy from their childhood. For me it was Samantha, my American Girl Doll. Like all American Girl Dolls, she was accompanied by a six-book set of young adult fiction, following a year in the life of a young girl living during a particular Read More...