Another start-up shout out

One of my classmates is working for Mimoco, a company that makes customizable flash drives. They have a licensing deal with Lucasfilms to create Star Wars based characters and just came out with a new line of drives designed by illustrator Dino Alberto.

Check out the link

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/09/mimoco-releases-a-whole-new-batch-of-adorable-flash-drives/

And here is a picture of the new line:

CS2_splash

For you graphic designers out there they are also running a contest for people to design their own mimobot. Check out the website for details.

Mimoco

Shout out to a buddy

One of my best friends founded a company just out of business school and they are starting to get some press. The company is named Identicert and their idea is EasyQube.

EasyQube is designed for densely populated areas and essentially provides apartment complexes and other public sites a secure place to store packages for delivery or pick up. Since most delivery companies (DHL, Fedex) lose money if they need to come to your place for a delivery more than once, it saves them time and money which (if EasyQube takes off) should save you money on shipping charges.

Here is some of the press. If you get Time magazine you might be seeing something in there soon as well

http://campustechnology.com/articles/49522/
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18195

Since it is looking more and more like I might also end up at a startup, it's heartening to see a friend a few years into the process and having some success.

Good luck Jorge!