The Qube Lab has been all over the media lately.

OK, maybe not all over, but a few of us were on Channel 3 News and we were in a Crain’s Cleveland Business story in October. We’ve been hearing from a bunch of people on both stories.  It is amazing how many people watch WKYC news and read page 11 of Crain’s.

On Channel 3, it was a story about how Wi-Fi is easily circumvented and packets can get intercepted:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=125268&catid=45

Of course, they were with us for two hours but the story was just a couple of minutes. Anything we mentioned about SSID, opening portals, and the detailed, balanced way we viewed these things did not really come across.  We were probably too technical and Mike the reporter wanted sound bites (like the comment James made about what is “stupid”).

The Crain’s story was about Goldstein, Caldwell & Associates – our friends who work with small startups (http://www.goldcald.com/).   It did a nice job introducing us.  Here’s the text that discussed the Qube, followed by a link to the story:

“…The Qube Lab, a software development company Mr. Berente leads at Case Western Reserve University [note: The Qube Lab is not formally associated with Case, beyond all of us also either work or go to school at Case], stood to benefit by partnering with the early stage business development firm in University Heights. However, Mr. Berente also found that he and Goldstein Caldwell’s founders shared a passion: helping Northeast Ohio’s young entrepreneurs…

“…More people should share that focus, said Mr. Berente, who leads a group of students who provide low-cost software development services to Goldstein Caldwell’s portfolio companies and other organizations. “The companies that everybody is talking about were not created by 40-somethings,” said Mr. Berente, who also is an adjunct professor at CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management and a research fellow at the University of Michigan’s school of information.”

The article “Young entrepreneurs build firm around startup investments,” was written by Chuch Soder and ran on the October 19 issue:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20091019/FREE/310199972