January Meeting
Our next meeting will be this Sunday, January 8th at 11:00 am. The speaker will be Jay Manickam from uShip (uship.com).
In case you don’t know, uShip is a company that was founded by 3 FT MBAs 2 years ago. They were semi-finalists in the Global Moot Corp competition, and they won several other business plan competitions as well. uShip matches people that want to ship items cheaply with excess cargo space. For example, if you want to ship a couch to California, you can find someone on the uShip site that is going from Austin to California and has extra space in their truck. uShip takes 7.9% of the fee that the shipper pays.
This is a really interesting company. These 3 MBAs all gave up their fancy cushy jobs to give entrepreneurship a chance. They are living cheaply and trying to build this business. They recently got an undisclosed amount of funding from Benchmark Capital, and I am looking forward to learning about how they plan to use it.
The location of the meeting will be determined asap. Please indicate your attendance with the survey asap.
Thanks, Eric