Posts for Dan Reich


Not Being Able To Help

From Dan Reich
March 20, 2011 at 8:25 pm
The situation in Japan is really horrible but perhaps an even worse situation is that rescue workers and aids are afraid to help those within a 12 mile radius ... (more)

What is LinkedIn – A Guide To The Digital Rolodex

From Dan Reich
March 14, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Image via CrunchBase Most of my friends are either in the work world or are in the process of finishing up some form of school and the following question ... (more)

What Facebook Really Means

From Dan Reich
February 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about Facebook and the implications it has on our daily lives, our communications, ... (more)

A Focus Group of 1

From Dan Reich
February 8, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Image via Wikipedia As we continue to build our business at spinback we continue to engage in a number of very interesting conversations on the topic of ... (more)

Whiteboards – The KY Jelly For Ideas

From Dan Reich
January 27, 2011 at 6:16 am
Image via Wikipedia My friend Jeremy suggested that people take his blog post titles and write their own story. Considering I just finished drawing pictures ... (more)

A story of open vs. closed – Men’s suits, ties and shoes

From Dan Reich
January 20, 2011 at 11:42 am
Image via Wikipedia A family friend of mine owns a large men’s clothing store and for the purpose of this story, we’ll call this store TuxMan. ... (more)

Moving on from Lotame to SpinBack

From Dan Reich
January 17, 2011 at 10:44 am
Image by Stuck in Customs via Flickr As of today, I’ll be leaving the Lotame family to pursue a new endeavor called Spinback.com. Like all hard decisions, ... (more)

Start a Business in School

From Dan Reich
December 28, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Image via Wikipedia If you are in college you should start your own business because there is no better time to do so. When I was in college working on ... (more)

A Guide to Judaic Philanthropy in the Facebook World

From Dan Reich
December 21, 2010 at 3:05 pm
As a grandson of a holocaust survivor, I have a very specific lens by which I view the religion of Judaism. As a student of technology and media, one of the millennial generation, ... (more)

Badgers Building Startup Businesses in Madison, WI

From Dan Reich
November 14, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Image by Wisconsin Historical Images via Flickr Madison, Wisconsin could very well be the next hub for startup businesses. When I was in school in Madison, ... (more)

Building Things For Your Pockets – A Unique Perspective On The Future of Mobile

From Dan Reich
November 5, 2010 at 10:44 am
There is no doubt in my mind that our dependency on mobile phones will continue to increase. I’m not going to try and justify this statement because this ... (more)

Display Advertising – State of the Union

From Dan Reich
November 1, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Image by The Planet via Flickr Just some high level thoughts on where things are at and where things are going in digital display advertising… We ... (more)

Idea: Game Mechanics for Businesses

From Dan Reich
September 28, 2010 at 7:58 am
Image by inju via Flickr In my last post I talked about how I would openly share some of my ideas. This is one of those half-baked ideas and like all of ... (more)

Share And Tell All Of Your Ideas

From Dan Reich
September 23, 2010 at 9:06 am
When I was younger I had all sorts of crazy business ideas and product inventions, but no one cared because I was young. It was child’s play. Fortunately, ... (more)

Billions Of Dollars Will Be Made From The Cognitive Surplus

From Dan Reich
August 16, 2010 at 8:44 am
Cover via Amazon If you want to understand where wealth creation will come from in the coming years then you should read Clay Shirky‘s latest book ... (more)

Learning From Experience

From Dan Reich
August 11, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Image via Wikipedia School is mostly bullshit. The only way you learn things is by doing things. Real things. Things that have consequences and things that ... (more)

Happiness Comes From Helping Others

From Dan Reich
July 21, 2010 at 10:57 am
Image by US Army Korea – IMCOM via Flickr Mark Suster wrote a great post yesterday called “Life is 10% How You Make It and 90% How you Take ... (more)

Alyssa Milano, Star Wars and The “Rainbow Swan” Effect

From Dan Reich
June 15, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Black Swans, Purple Cows, colorful animals.. The idea that something big and unexpected could happen without notice is a joke. At this point in time, if you don’t ... (more)

“Premium Content” is the wrong name – will be called “Niche Content”

From Dan Reich
June 11, 2010 at 2:27 pm
This week was internet week. I listened to a lot of media companies talk about “Premium Content” but I’m not sure that this is the right vernacular ... (more)

Dear Ambassadors and Respected Representatives of UW-Madison and Education – A Year in Review

From Dan Reich
May 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Image via Wikipedia Over a year ago I wrote an open letter to several faculty members of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In the letter I voiced ... (more)

We are Wall Street

From Dan Reich
May 6, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Image by jpellgen via Flickr The market almost fell 10% today and one of my i-banker friends sends me this email chain… We are Wall Street. It’s ... (more)

Will.i.am is the Man – Creating a New Era of Music Media Platforms

From Dan Reich
April 19, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Picture from the event I always knew there was something super advanced and different about the Black Eyed Peas. My first sign was when I saw them perform ... (more)

Nice’n Niche

From Dan Reich
April 15, 2010 at 10:47 am
A lot of people recently asked me about internet based businesses. Things like: How to start a blog or website, what is twitter, how to use twitter, how to increase ... (more)

Oreos are Good, Especially The Audience Layer

From Dan Reich
April 9, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Image via Wikipedia Doug Weaver wrote a great piece today titled The New Oreo, Part 3: The Audience Layer. “Anyone mildly plugged into digital advertising ... (more)

When it comes to Online Advertising, Keep It Simple Stupid

From Dan Reich
March 15, 2010 at 12:24 pm
When things get so complicated the best thing you can do is go back to the basics. In today’s world of online advertising, the “basics” are changing so it’s ... (more)