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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Great Video Clip – “What is Internet Anyway?”
Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric in 1994. What is internet anyway? What a difference 15 years makes. Update 2/2/2011: The video embedded above was removed from YouTube, but can still be seen here – http://www.break.com/index/today-show-1994-what-is-internet-1996848
There Is No Prize Out There
What, what a video I just found while going through my Google Reader (yes, I still use that every now and then) — and it’s no surprise I found it on the Causemopolitan, the blog my good friend Sloane Berrent runs. The video is Kevin Spacey answering the question of how someone can appreciate the early years leading up to the “ultimate prize”. Particularly if you are young and don’t have clear direction in your life, this is a must watch. To want, and to be ambitious, and to want to be successful. Is not enough — that’s just desire. There are still way too many people in this world that don’t understand “WHY”. Why do … Continue reading
VC Internship Opportunity with IA Ventures (in NYC)
My buddy Brian Rothenberg posted a compelling Venture Capital Internship opportunity for IA Ventures on his blog. The internship is unpaid, and in New York City. You can find the full application here. As an intern, you would support the operations and investment processes of the fund. Like Brian, if I was in the market for a job/internship in the VC field, I’d definitely apply.
A Small Business Website Fail
The other day, I went to lunch at Ipoh (awesome awesome Asian food) in Adams Morgan with my buddy from college. I checked into Ipoh on Foursquare. We got to talking about what their website looked like, and how most small businesses had terrible websites. I proceeded to look up Ipoh on my iPhone with no luck. I could find them on Yelp, but their website looked like this: Fail
I Was Scheduled to Fly Home Today…
But nope, it looks like it is not to be. I now have another day in DC — Air Tran has changed my flight from tonight at 5:59 PM to tomorrow at 1:59 PM. Uploaded with Skitch! I don’t really get how they can just change the day of a flight; really freaking annoying. I guess I won’t be making that lunch appointment in Seattle tomorrow.
