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• Wed, Jun 2 2010

  Reflections On A Year of Awesome

  By nikki at 3:10 pm

  A year has gone by.

  And to echo what Mike said before, I could not feel more lucky to be part of such an amazing company. It is truly unbelievable to think that a year ago it was literally 3 of us sitting in a room trying to make it all happen. And well, I think we have all proved that it is more than “happening” now. I feel the office is humming with excitement, buzz, movement, energy, enthusiasm and knowledge. And of course rock star products, people and smelly melting plastic from Bertha.

  I continue to be thankful for the opportunity to grow and develop with this company. I started out in sales (for Kluster), then switched to PR, then to copy writing, then to customer service, community ambassador, and I am settled here (for the time being) in Operations with a side dish of Domestic Sales.

  So while you Quirks are thankful that we have created a place for your innovation and invention ideas to come true, I am thankful for a work environment where I continually learn and feel challenged each and every day. (Sorry if that got slightly corny, Quirks.) It is the truth.

  I will admit – I remain perpetually cold in the office. At Avenue A it was because of our faulty heater, and here, well we have to thank Bertha for needing so much AC so she does not overheat. (well, or maybe, it is just me!)

  But if the AC is my only issue here at Quirky, well then, I think I have it pretty good.

  Looking forward to our upcoming year/s ahead. Thanks once again to Ben, the entire Quirky Team, community and investors.

  P.S. For those interested, I was able to purchase a $3 pashmina in Soho… you can really bargain for scarves when it is 85 degrees outside in NYC!

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• Wed, Jun 2 2010

  Our Digital Baby

  By matt at 12:39 pm

  Aww, Quirky’s one! Cute.

  When you were growing up, did you have a wall in your house where your folks would measure you every year to see how much you’d grown? I did. But I can’t find the picture of mine, so here’s one with Martha Stewart instead. If Martha does it, it must be cool.

  

  Well here’s the website version of that. Monthly visits, starting waaaay back when Quirky was a wee baby up to last month.

  

  Look at our kid go! I feel like a proud papa. But look at the growth over the past couple months. Dare I propose that Quirky is entering puberty?

  Oh boy, here we go. Happy birthday Quirky!

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• Wed, Jun 2 2010

  Getting Our Old On

  By mike at 10:03 am

  All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ~ george harrison

  

  A year ago today, we turned the Quirky machine on and told the world about it. Here’s what’s happened since then.

  People have spent nearly 100,000 hours on quirky.com. That’s 11 years.

  We’ve been seen in every country around the world except the following: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Western Sahara, Niger, Central African Republic, Somalia, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, North Korea, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

  The top 10 cities that love Quirky are (in order): New York, London, Los Angeles, Sydney, San Francisco, Singapore, Chicago, Paris, Atlanta, and Hamburg.

  The iPad is the top mobile device used to get quirky.

  52% of you are a PC. 39.7% a Mac.

  And the following chart lists the most popular Quirky staffers as determined by Google stalking, er, i mean, search results. Those flying under the radar will have their names withheld in order preserve their personal SEO ranking, or lack thereof.

  

  There’s so much more I can say about the last year but you probably have the attention span of a gnat so I’ll keep it short. Quite simply, none of this would have been possible without you. Thank you so much for taking part in this Quirky experiment and making it a success.

  Having gone from 3 of us sitting in a shared office space in midtown to 20 people and 1 robot now filling our sweet SoHo office with a constant creative buzz, I am nothing short of amazed of what we’ve been able to accomplish. It’s our job to help bring people’s ideas to life and I cannot tell you how much fun that is.

  I am greatly looking forward to this next trip around the sun. I can’t imagine what you all will surprise me with next.

  All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.  ~ alfred, lord tennyson

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