Posts for Dan Reich


It’s All About Execution and Stick Figure Cat Drawings

From Dan Reich
February 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Mark Cuban is an investor of iwanttodrawacatforyou.com This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. What would you say if I told you I was going to make stick figure ... (more)

3 Short Stories from 3 NYC Startups

From Dan Reich
January 6, 2012 at 5:43 pm
New York City This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. Our society celebrates the buzzy and bubbly – acquisitions, funding events, mergers, ... (more)

From 2011 to 2012 – Go Badgers!

From Dan Reich
January 2, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Man, what a year it has been. In January I took my first trip to Pasadena California for the Rose Bowl. Although Wisconsin lost to TCU, it was arguably one of ... (more)

3 Ways to Disconnect

From Dan Reich
December 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm
This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. Technology has democratized information and in turn has fueled hyper consumption. On a daily basis, we are assaulted ... (more)

Why Engineering Majors Change Their Minds

From Dan Reich
November 10, 2011 at 3:52 pm
This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. If we want our country and economy to get back on track we need to fix the education system for math and science ... (more)

The Future of Hiring New Employees

From Dan Reich
October 21, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Image via CrunchBase This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. Technology and data are changing the ways companies do business but perhaps more interestingly ... (more)

9 Reasons You Should Blog

From Dan Reich
October 17, 2011 at 9:31 am
Wordpress Blog This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. I think everyone should blog, especially entrepreneurs, so here are my top 9 reasons why you ... (more)

How To Start A Company

From Dan Reich
October 6, 2011 at 12:37 pm
This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. Starting a company is a daunting task and taking the first step sometimes seems impossible. I’ve encountered ... (more)

Facebook F8 Changes Solidifies Social Infrastructure for the Web

From Dan Reich
September 26, 2011 at 9:48 am
This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. The recent changes announced at Facebook’s F8 conference solidifies their place as the first real social infrastructure ... (more)

Fire Truck Photo Opp – Remembering 9/11

From Dan Reich
September 11, 2011 at 11:35 pm
On the night of September 11th 2011, firetrucks lined up in Jersey City awaiting their turn for their photo opp. In the backdrop there lies two hollow lights shooting ... (more)

What the hell is SkullCandy?

From Dan Reich
August 26, 2011 at 10:29 am
That was the overwhelming response I got from my friends in college. I had a beat up card board box sitting in the corner of my bedroom with 25 “skull crushers” ... (more)

The University of Nothing – The Bylaws

From Dan Reich
August 17, 2011 at 9:47 am
I’ve said several times on this blog that the education system is broken and is in desperate need of change. I now think we are finally starting to see the ... (more)

The Productivity Paradox

From Dan Reich
August 11, 2011 at 10:03 am
When I was building Spinback as an independent company I would often work 16 hour days. These days were packed with meetings, work, planning, the whole 9 yards. ... (more)

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms (Video)

From Dan Reich
July 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm
I’ve blogged about my views on the broken education system in the past, but I don’t think anyone more clearly articulates the issues than Sir Ken Robinson. This ... (more)

Honesty

From Dan Reich
July 5, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Image via Wikipedia I just finished reading a blog post by James Altucher titled “Do You Have to Be Rich to Be Honest?” Go read it. It is very ... (more)

Value of Engineering to the Entrepreneur

From Dan Reich
June 17, 2011 at 2:23 pm
This post originally appeared on Badger Engineers. My company Spinback was recently acquired by Buddy Media, the largest Facebook Management Company in the world. ... (more)

Insane Maniac Business Partners

From Dan Reich
May 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Starting a business is very hard and to be successful I think you need to have a certain set of characteristics, one of which I’ll call the “insane ... (more)

Dogpatch Labs NYC – The Spinback Home

From Dan Reich
May 13, 2011 at 11:23 am
Image via CrunchBase Now that the dust has settled a bit and the acquisition is done, I wanted to talk a little bit about Dogpatch Labs NYC and the role ... (more)

My Company Is Being Acquired

From Dan Reich
May 12, 2011 at 10:21 am
As the news says, today my partners and I over at Spinback are pleased to announce that we’ve been acquired by Buddy Media, the Facebook management system ... (more)

Celebrities Have No Privacy. We Are All Celebrities.

From Dan Reich
May 6, 2011 at 11:22 am
Image via Wikipedia There is a lot of debate going on in Washington DC and among the Ad Tech community around data and privacy. Technology has enabled every ... (more)

Eyewitness Account of Navy Seal Heroes

From Dan Reich
May 2, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Cover via Amazon Osama Bin Laden is dead and today I recall the feelings I had on that fateful day in 2001. Although I am admittedly filled with thoughts ... (more)

A Tornado Hit My House

From Dan Reich
April 28, 2011 at 1:40 pm
On May 27, 2001 an F2 tornado hit my house while I was inside. The tornado was 200 ft wide and had winds of up to 120 miles per hour. Fortunately, there were no ... (more)

Selling with Fear vs. Selling with Opportunity

From Dan Reich
April 27, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Both work, right? Selling with Fear vs. Selling with Opportunity is a post from... Dan Reich - A Student - Learning, Living at the Intersection of Technology, ... (more)

Quitting On Your Potential

From Dan Reich
April 26, 2011 at 10:15 am
Image via Wikipedia In high school, I quit wrestling at the peak of my wrestling career. I had just come off a nice run at kid states taking first place ... (more)

Academic Inflation

From Dan Reich
April 13, 2011 at 12:00 am
We are experiencing academic inflation. This is a theme I can’t seem to shake and its something that I think is only getting worse. Much worse, so long as ... (more)