{"id":356,"date":"2010-09-23T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:38:37","slug":"a-quirky-website-might-be-an-innovative-way-to-do-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"A quirky website might be an innovative way to do business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirky.com\">Quirky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quirky connects inventors with investors with consumers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Quirky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Quirky-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Quirky\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Quirky-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Quirky.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have a product that you want to produce &#8211; you can design it &#8211; price its development and sell it on this website.  As a consumer, I can &#8220;invest&#8221; in the product by placing a pre-order &#8211; if enough pre-orders are placed, the product is built and shipped.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I placed my first preorder for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirky.com\/products\/53-Trek-Support-Electric-Backpack\">Trek Support backpack<\/a> &#8211; a TSA friendly backpack with a built in battery for all my tech tools and a charger as well.  I was order #69 out of the 1,200 buyers they need.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how it turns out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Quirky. Quirky connects inventors with investors with consumers. If you have a product that you want to produce &#8211; you can design it &#8211; price its development and sell it on this website. As a consumer, I can &#8220;invest&#8221; in the product by placing a pre-order &#8211; if enough pre-orders are placed, the product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}