Cobra is a designer of mobile communications products including radar detectors, power inverters, universal device mounts and more. Quantum is proud to add several of Cobra’s products to our ever-expanding line of wireless devices. Cobra iRadar™ is available for both iPod Touch/iPhone and Android phones. With the Cobra radar detector and free corresponding smartphone app, users are able to effectively detect radar, laser guns, speed traps and red light cameras. The device even includes a “City/Highway mode” feature designed to reduce false alerts while driving.

The Cobra PhoneLynx™ and PhoneLynx™ for Android are a welcome addition to Quantum’s Bluetooth Cellular Gateway family. The PhoneLynx allows users to conveniently tether up to two cellphones to office phones or home landline phones. This gadget was a winner of the 2011 CES Innovations Award and features ”Clear Call” noise-cancelling technology for crystal-clear call quality.

Cobra also offers useful products for in-vehicle communication. Cobra’s Lightweight Headset and Noise Cancelling Bluetooth Headset meet state requirements for hands-free devices, allowing users to communicate safely and comfortably. A perfect companion to the headsets are Cobra’s  universal mounts, including a Vehicular Mount for Tablets and eReaders, a Cigarette Lighter Flex Mount for cell phones and a Mini Mount for PDAs, smartphones, GPS devices and more.

Explore Cobra’s full line of products on the Cobra manufacturer page.

Recently honored by his alma mater, Yeshiva University, Quantum’s CEO, Ari Zoldan sits down with his college paper to detail how it was that the small-town boy from Lawrence, NY became the founder and CEO of a media powerhouse.

His press credentials ranging from the United Nations, the Senate to the House of Representatives, Ari now holds the position as Senior Washington Correspondent of Talk Radio News Service, a Washington, D.C. newswire, as well as an habitual figure on networks such a Fox Business, CNN, and other news outlets nationwide. His seat in the White House, as well as his position as one of the movers and shakers in the New York media business, just shows how far he has come, the article goes on to say, from where he sat in ’00’01 on “his mother’s couch going on job interview after interview, waiting for a position in finance that never materialized”.

After graduating from Yeshiva University’s school of Buisness, Syms, he searched diligently for a job in finance but remained unsuccessful. Instead of being discouraged, Zoldan decided to forge his own path… a route that he would do several times throughout his career, the majority of which proving to be both lucrative and sucessful.

“At that point, I really had nothing to lose, so I decided to start my own company,” Zoldan asserted. “I researched emerging fields and hit upon voiceover technology. I identified certain niches in the industry that weren’t being served and pounced on them.”

Zoldan soon founded small startup Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, for companies all over the world, especially in Asia and Africa. In 2001, he officially established Launch 3 Communications, a VoIP, and then founded Launch 3 Ventures with his brother David in 2004, which bought distressed assets from telecommunications companies and sold the parts overseas. He sold both companies to his two brothers—Launch 3 Communications to Dani in 2004 and Launch 3 Ventures to David in 2007—and focused on starting a new company, Quantum Networks, a technology incubator focused on emerging and next generation technology.

“I had a bunch of failures in between selling the business to my brothers and founding Quantam, but entrepreneurs can’t be afraid of failure,” Zoldan said. “The experience of failing time and again before landing on something that succeeded was probably one of the greatest things I needed to master.” Quantum is not only a success story but a unique place to work; Zoldan and his management team have carefully developed an atmosphere that encourages an open and proactive work environment with a hands-off approach to management. With more than 25 employees, most are in their early twenties, intuitive decision-making is at the core of Quantum’s business model.

Zoldan’s co-partner and COO at Quantum is Eytan Wiener said of Zoldan “’He has astounding vision and foresight for what works and what will not. I sometimes think of Ari’s life as a chess game, because he is always planning moves ten steps ahead and then waits patiently as they play out according to plan.”

Zoldan’s next steps would include branching into media. A natural progression to Ari, given his love of writing and politics, he has appeared on Fox News Channel and Fox Business, NBC and CNN Money, among other national broadcast outlets. Although his time is limited, he manages to be a popular motivational speaker on the lecture circuit and has a book coming out next year, Startup Karma, a leadership and management manual which focuses on infusing the laws of karma into one’s business.

Speaking to current YU alumni who are struggling to find a job, Zoldan offers some sage advice. “Finding a job is a full-time job, and graduates need to be open to avenues other than what they initially intended.”

The article in its entirety is available on page 5 of the YUToday ’12 winter issue.

If you would like any first hand information about jobs, experience, media availabilities, connect to Ari Zoldan via his different social profiles—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter…