OpenIdea: Give Spammers What They Want….
You have no idea how much I hate spam and spammers. I’m generally a friendly guy but spam makes me aggressive. And with 85% of ALL my mail being spam (19.648 Good Messages, 111.961 Spam Messages (85%) on 405 Spam Messages Per Day) I spent a lot of time thinking about how to prevent any more from coming in. Since January 2007 I have been using a fairly good Spam filter. It is 99.1% correct which means I have to wade my way through hundreds of spam messages every day to make sure I don’t miss stuff. So far I have rescued 869 messages...
read moreDoing business in… Zeeland?
Later today (October 16) I will be driving to Zeeland to talk about entrepreneurship and officially open the ‘mediaplein’ at the Zeelandhallen in Goes. I will be interviewed together with Mr. Wiersma who is resposible for Economic affairs in Zeeland. We will be talking about what effect technology has on business and whether it matters (pro or con) to do business in Zeeland compared to other places in the Netherlands, Europe of maybe even the world. The event is held in the Zeelandhallen in Goes which is a good 200 km from...
read moreFree Ticket & Huge Savings: Sprout ChallengerDay
On Thursday, November 1, 2007 I will be a speaker on Sprout’s ChallengerDay. I am looking forward to this day a lot and not just because I am speaking but because the other speakers are all very inspiring people. I intend to be there the whole day just listening to what these challengers have to say. I also offered to host the Speakers Dinner the night before at my house which will be extra cool because I will get to meet all the speakers personally the evening before. You can see who all the speakers are on the official website but here...
read moreSmall Change?
As a kid I always carried a small magnet with me. It was attached to a long cord and I used it to grab small coins out of fountains or street ventilation shafts. One day I stopped doing that. Maybe because I figured out that it wasn’t a scalable business. Not many €1000 bills can be found in fountains. People always tell you to focus. Focus is important. Unfortunately nobody is able to tell you WHAT to focus on. Let me rephrase that: everybody has a different opinion on WHAT you should focus on. So do you focus on small...
read more5 Tips: Efficiently Communicating Your New Contact Data
A few months ago I received a message from someone I once met. He had moved from one company to another and wanted to let me (and the 400 other recipients in the To: field) know his new contact details. I opened the message and included was a 1.2 megabyte JPG with his new contact details, in an image. Can you imagine how inconvenient that is? Ever since then I have been paying special attention to how people communicate their new addresses and have now decided to write a ‘How to’ about the subject. So, are you planning on moving...
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