About SOCIAL DASHBOARD

The URL www.socialdashboard.com was purchased by Aryeh in 2008 for $1,000 because he thought the words “social” and “dashboard” would someday be powerful words in technology. To Aryeh, the URL was Real Estate. Today we can hardly imagine now a world without them. Aryeh calls it “owning vacant land in downtown Manhattan – whatever you build at that address will experience some measure of success. In 2009/2010, Aryeh’s vision looked like this:

Development in 2010 came to a halt. Aryeh’s financial losses in Real Estate, divorce and cancer were too much to sustain the startup so it was put on the back burner. While in recovery, the only thing Aryeh could do without a voice was focus on social media. In 2013/2014, Social Dashboard was infused with capital and the site was launched with a BETA proof-of-concept. Visitor traffic went up to as much as 54,000 in a single day, and about 167,000 people worldwide subscribed to its social media management suite. A power struggle between investors and Aryeh prevented the Company from raising further capital so the site went offline. In January 2017, Aryeh settled with investors and Social Dashboard is relaunching with a new family of mobile apps and complete redesign of its social media management suite.

About ARYEH RIFKIN

Aryeh Rifkin 2017

Aryeh describes himself as a “venturist” which he jokingly describes as an entrepreneur involved in multiple businesses. At age 15, Aryeh carried two big boxes of jewelry knocking door-to-door selling to homes and businesses. That same year, Aryeh’s high school sweetheart printed his first business cards reading “Car Locator Service” because he was too young to take title in his name but he memorized the Classified ads in 4 newspapers daily and could tell you what was for sale and how much it was worth based on other years, makes and miles in the market. At the age of 18, Aryeh’s college (Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida) did not have a classified section so he started one himself, and within a few months dropped out to publish his own magazine – of course he had to learn publishing skills. Months later, he sold the magazine for a profit and got into his family business – Real Estate sales, development and mortgage brokering. By the age of 22, Aryeh owned multiple rental homes, cars, boats, jet skis, the latest stereo equipment, computers, a dog, and collected cheap sunglasses. His mom died without a will and a power struggle with his step-father left Aryeh bankrupt, so he moved to start again in Colorado. Just 4 years later at the age of 26, Aryeh’s company was worth an estimated $19 Million with assets and income and he started to invest in restaurants and technology when the bubble burst and Aryeh lost everything. He was hired as Interim CEO of 1st Nations and grew that to become one of the biggest mortgage companies on the Eastern seaboard, and started his own Real Estate development, Architecture and mortgage firm but lost nearly $10 Million in the crash of 2009 followed by divorce in 2010 and stage 4 cancer in 2011.