Hi, You've Found Kareem Mayan

I co-founded eduFire and built profitable web apps at ESPN, FIM, and ALS.net
My work has appeared in places like , , , and

Lately

• NiceTips - Travel advice for independent travelers, backpackers, and digital nomads
• I'll help you find your life purpose
• EasyCal - a web booking calendar (and the EasyCal small business advice blog)

From Kareem Mayan's Weblog

• "What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do...."
• "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there..."
• "Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it."
• "It doesn’t matter what we SAY is most important, it’s where we place the bulk of our energy that..."
• "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to act despite the presence of fear."

How to Be a Digital Nomad

• Guide to Plan and Book a Self-Drive Safari in Kruger Park, South Africa
• Interview: How to Be a Digital Nomad
• Gear List for a Digital Nomad
• Christmas in Khayelitsha Township, South Africa
• 5 Lessons I Learned After a Year as a Digital Nomad

About Me

Work

• Heading up product development on an awesome charity-related startup for a Vancouver-based company (current)
• Co-founded eduFire, where teachers use live video to teach students around the globe (2007-08)
• Director of Product Dev at FOX Interactive Media (FIM) Labs, where I did product R&D and prototyping for sites like MySpace. Led development and launched the first sports social network (2005-07)
• On team that built ESPN's fantasy sports game engine. Helped grow ESPN Insider, a subscription product, by 25% in 6 months (2002-05)
• Developer at ALS.net, helping the small non-profit raise money and search for a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease (2001-02)

Also...

• Advise WorldBlu on tech and business strategy (current)
• Moderated Creative Good peer learning and leadership network of Fortune 2000 directors and managers (2006)
• Brought together Los Angeles community of 85 techies as a co-organizer of LA’s first Barcamp “unconference” (2006)
• Learned how to improve key metrics by improving a business's customer experience in Creative Good’s year-long Fellows Program (2005)

Personal

• Born and raised in Toronto, Canada
• McGill University graduate with a degree in psychology and computer science
• Lived in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Boston, West Hartford CT, Santa Monica CA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Budapest, Hungary
• Currently: Vancouver, BC

Say Hello

I love hearing from new people! blog +at+ reemer +dot+ com, or +1.210.888.YELP (9357).