{"id":18,"date":"2011-11-10T01:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-11-10T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:58:30","slug":"entrepreneurial-company-gemvara-jewelry-your-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/2011\/11\/10\/entrepreneurial-company-gemvara-jewelry-your-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurial Company: &#8220;Gemvara &#8211; Jewelry your way.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freesampleagent-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gemvara-coupons.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/freesampleagent-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gemvara-coupons.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Lauzon, CEO of Gemvara, operates a website that allows the customers to customize a\u00a0jewellery of their choice. This idea was risky because online ordering does not allow the customers to actually see the real product and jewellery is a product that most people try on before purchasing. However, in the first three months, the company&#8217;s had a six digit revenue. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/30under30\/2011\/profile-matt-lauzon-founder-of-gemvara.html\">http:\/\/www.inc.com\/30under30\/2011\/profile-matt-lauzon-founder-of-gemvara.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Lauzon, CEO of Gemvara, operates a website that allows the customers to customize a\u00a0jewellery of their choice. This idea was risky because online ordering does not allow the customers to actually see the real product and jewellery is a product that most people try on before purchasing. However, in the first three months, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephhong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}