Archive for the 'Business' Category

Started using MyC4

i signed up with MyC4 this weekend. It’s a micro financing website, run by a group of Danish people. I got a recommendation for this site from Nils de Witte, currently associated to the BID Network, an organization that deals with business’ in developing countries.

MyC4 is aiming to help eradicate poverty by 2015, in other […]

HBR selling practices and SOA

I had never noticed before, but when I took the latest issue of Harvest Business Review, three leaflets feel out, all of then heavily promoting the magazine and subscriptions to it. I’ll post some details later on, as I left all of the three leaflets home before taking a flight and I don’t remember anything […]

Panel discussion on marketing to the ‘younger’ generation

I generally don’t do links very often, but this I did wanted to share. I’m almost part of it, but it’s fun to see how and if the ‘young’ generation can be reached using traditional marketing techniques and if not, what does interest them.
I think Europe is still far beyond here. What I get […]

How to sell me something (or, how I renewed my Economist subscription)

I had a subscription to The Economist for two years that recently expired. I got several reminders about this, but was too busy to renew it and forgot about it. All of a sudden, the issues stopped coming and I thought, “oh well, let’s just leave it at that, I’ll survive without it and if […]

Guy Kawasaki: ’suppose I was a VC…’

No Plan, No Capital, No Model… No Problem…
Interessante panel discussie onder leiding van Guy Kawasaki. De main trend van de discussie is het feit dat VCs het niet waard zijn. Okay, dat is de boel wel een beetje over een kam scheren, maar het komt er wel een beetje op neer. Belangrijkste wordt gezegd door […]

Good to Great & the Barbarians (at the Gate)

Back in August last year, I had an entry about Freakonomics, a book by Steven D. Levitt.
Near the end I said the next book I was about to read was Good to Great, by Jim Collins and I promised you that I’d update you once I finished the book. Well, I have to apoligize for […]

IKEA overdose, but at least they know how to use IT!

About a year ago I moved to a new appartment. I bought the appartment I’m in now and unfortunately, newly built appartments usually don’t come with couches, dinner tables and beds. Since all the (rented) appartments I had in the past where furnished mostly, I didn’t have that much stuff of my own yet. I […]

SpringOne? Yes, we have a bag as well, but

Although our conference bag will probably not be the coolest ever, we will definitely have a great time at SpringOne in about 3 weeks. There’s lots of cool stuff to cover in sessions that will be led by some people that have all gained great respect in their area of expertise and frankly speaking, that’s […]

Preparing for SpringOne, June 15th - 16th, Antwerp

After hosting the Spring Experience in Miami December last year, this year Interface21 is organizing yet another conference focused on everything Spring. With speakers such as Gregor Kiczales, Gregor Hohpe, Patrick Linskey, Cameron Purdy and of course the usuall Interface21 suspects, SpringOne is promising to be an exciting event packed with in-depth talks on Spring, […]