As y’all probably heard, we received some pretty great press last week after news of our big raise was unveiled. Some of the reports were so effusive, we blushed! Here are some of our favorite sound bites…
Against the odds, Quirky has quickly evolved from a weird (but good) idea into a viable business.
Quirky is probably the most interesting experiment in how products are designed and produced in recent memory. But when they launched, they seemed like a bold but ultimately wild-eyed idea. No more …
According to Fast Company, Quirky (though initially consider a bit too “quirky” to be relevant by the business publication) has been awarded $6 million in Series A investment funding. Not bad for the oddball company that had to prove its relevance and, even more challenging, prove that being different is still worth gambling on.
Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are born on napkin doodles and in other unorthodox ways.
I joined Quirky several months ago, skeptical of the concept (underwater waffle iron, anyone?) but enthusiastic about the principal. In this era of “Make” mentality, shouldn’t all our great ideas be marketable? Why should the Frog Design or IDEOs of the world be allowed to do all the fun invention and product design?
Quirky has validated the inventor in all of us and made it both fun and accessible to pitch your idea.
