Dan Healy is 22 years old. He is finishing school at The Ohio State University in June 2008 with a degree in Marketing. In 2005 Dan started his first company called Sloopy Holdings Unlimited. SloopyMenus is an online menu guide that allows students and faculty at OSU to view restaurant menus, bar specials, and order food online from the greater Columbus area. He oversees sales and marketing and new Business Development. Dan also gives guest speeches to business and entrepreneurship classes at Ohio State, and consults his clients while continuing to manage his company.
In 2007 Dan cofounded the blog, The Big Transition with a close friend, and college fraternity brother. The blog focuses on the transition between college and the "real world." After college, Dan plans to join a small startup company with a position in marketing and sales, utilizing what he learned in school and from his business.
Dan's personal interests include travelling, golf, reading and family.
Dan Healy's blog is The Big Transition.
While I can talk about Columbus as if it was God’s gift to earth—and I can even believe it all I want—I still need to teach myself to say, “Columbus was heaven, but it’s not like I moved to hell.”
Like every other entrepreneur, I have had my ups and downs when trying to make a sale. It’s difficult to try and get a restaurant or a bar to spend money on internet advertising, especially if they aren’t familiar or comfortable with the idea of the web.
I always thought that this was […]
As my friends took the last ten days to venture to Cancun, Jamaica, Acapulco, and the Caribbean, I went to work. That’s right, I used my spring break, the same way that I used my winter break. I used it as an opportunity to get away from school, to try and make some money and […]
Where should I apply for a job? Where do I want to live? Who should I date? Now that I’m at a point in my life where these decisions are starting to matter, I definitely put more thought into them. Throughout this major transitional period, I’ve reached out to the people I trust […]
For some reason, it’s automatically assumed that when you get to college, you have to leave your jeans and dress shirts in your drawers until Friday night. At first this was great. I could wear sweatpants all the time, I could go to class in a hooded sweatshirt, and I never had to […]
Have you ever woken up in the morning, and checked your cell phone, only to see three text messages and ten missed calls from numbers you’ve never heard of? Have you gone through the address book in your phone to see numbers stored under “don’t call”, or “mistake?” Well if you’re in college, […]
