Mike Reining

Current

• Co-Founder and CEO at MindValley

Past

• Co-Founder at iPlayMusic, Inc.
• Head of New Ventures Strategy at eBay Inc.
• Manager, Corporate Strategy at eBay

• Manager, Business Development at sana security
• Associate at Boston Consulting Group

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Michigan

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Industry

Internet

Mike Reining’s Summary

I am the Co-Founder of MindValley. Our current projects include:

BlinkList - the leading social bookmarking and discovery engine.
http://www.blinklist.com

MindValleyLabs - we offer a leading course "Chain Reaction Marketing" designed to help small businesses succeed online.
http://www.mindvalleylabs.com

MindValleyLabs Blog - our blog where we test the latest ecommerce tactics and share the results.
http://blog.mindvalleylabs.com

MindValley - Our company
http://www.mindvalley.com

Mike Reining’s Specialties:

Online ecommerce, online community, online marketing, online search, online classifieds, person to person trade, social networking, SEO, web development.

Full AdWords setup and optimization $5,000. One hour private call, site consultation $997. Contact me for more information.

Mike Reining’s Experience

• Co-Founder and CEO

  MindValley

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2003 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  MindValley is a company made up of bright, tech-savvy, creative people from around the world. We love the Internet and build profitable Internet-based business models for the pure joy of creation.
  
  Checkout the company site at www.mindvalley.com
  
  Checkout our other sites at:
  www.blinklist.com
  www.clickmuse.com
  adwords.clickmuse.com
  www.mindvalleylabs.com

• Co-Founder

  iPlayMusic, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  iPlayMusic is all about two simple things. Teaching people of all ages how to play guitar and teaching people to play the songs they love by their favorite artists. We accomplish this by creating great resources and products designed specifically to allow the true beginner to have fun and play great music.
  
  You can check out our site at www.iplaymusic.com

• Head of New Ventures Strategy

  eBay Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2004 — June 2005 (8 months)

  Responsible for identifying new growth opportunities. Developed detailed local classifieds strategy for eBay and executed acquisition of Skype to help eBay enter the person to person telecommunications space.

• Manager, Corporate Strategy

  eBay

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  November 2003 — October 2004 (1 year)

• Manager, Business Development

  sana security

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

• Associate

  Boston Consulting Group

  (Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Mike Reining’s Education

• Stanford University

  MBA, Entrepreneurship, High Tech, Marketing, September 2001 — May 2003

  While I was at Stanford, I worked at a new Internet security software company for almost a year. The company is Sana Securities

  Activities and Societies:

  Entrepreneurship club, high tech club, soccer club, snowboarding club

• University of Michigan

  BBA, Business, September 1995 — May 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  AIESEC

Additional Information

Mike Reining’s Interests:

Anything and everything related to the Internet, mobile, eCommerce, online communities, person to person trade, communication, tagging, etc. I also love to read, hang out with friends and I am passionate about martial arts and snowboarding

Mike Reining’s Groups:

AIESEC, University of Michigan, Stanford Graduate School of Business

•    Google Adwords Qualified Individuals
•    Stanford Business School Alumni Association

Mike Reining’s Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa
Top honors at the University of Michigan BBA

Mike Reining’s Contact Settings

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• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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