This is Our Story

MindValley started when two friends, Vishen Lakhiani in New York and Mike Reining in San Francisco, grew tired of dreaming up ideas for the companies they worked for, and instead decided to execute ideas of their own.

Some ideas failed, some worked, but within one month MindValley was profitable, and grew, and grew, and grew… From working in our pajamas with an initial investment of $500 bucks we built a million-dollar company in 2 years (without any venture capital, business plans or loans).

Today, we work only on projects we love, get more business than we can handle, and absolutely love coming to work each morning!

We now hire insanely bright programmers and thinkers from around the world, and from our award-winning innovation-hub in Kuala Lumpur we work with clients and partners across the globe to launch some pretty interesting internet businesses.

What Exactly Do We Do

Part idea incubator, part personal development new media network – we launch several web businesses a year, focused in 3 areas.

MindValley Media

MindValley Media works with some of the world’s top trainers, authors and writers and helps them take their ideas and products to the internet generation.

From a few small clients five years ago, we are now one of the most successful publishers of personal development media on the web.

Find out more on www.MindValleyMedia.com

MindValley Labs

Based on our experience and expertise in launching online businesses and internet marketing, we’ve developed a program to help internet entrepreneurs build successful internet businesses.

Learn more from Mike and Vishen, as they share internet marketing tips and ideas on The MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

Our programmers and marketers experiment with new ideas, using the latest web technologies.

Our most recent technology venture – SocialRank monitors thousands of blogs in popular categories and identifies the hottest stories and bloggers every day. We do this democratically by measuring what stories users link to, talk about and pay attention to.

The result? You now know the hottest stories and blogs in your favorite fields.

Our first venture was Blinklist , now a fully profitable, household name in Social Bookmarking. We are currently working on Blinklist 2.0 – stay tuned !

Who’s behind MindValley?

Vishen Lakhiani Co-Founder

Before MindValley Media, he was an exec in Silicon Valley and New York for several internet and technology firms. He turned bedroom entrepreneur at 27 and by the time he was 31 had founded 6 web businesses and never had to work a conventional job again.

He holds a degree in Computer Engineering but now specializes in Internet and Technology Marketing.

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Michael Reining Co-Founder

Prior to MindValley Media, Mike was the Head of New Ventures Strategy at eBay where he conceived of the strategies that led to the investment in Craigslist, the launch of Kijiji.com and the acquisition of Skype.

Mike has an MBA from Stanford and previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group.

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Meet The Team