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For those of you who are switching between projects, you may have to give up your Google Apps (G Suite) account. Beside migrating your emails (which is relatively easy), you will probably want to move your calendar as well.

In theory, all you have to do is export your old calendar and import it in the new one. It becomes challenging if you’ve been using your calendar heavily (or let’s say more than two years). The exported file can be up to few MB. The issue is that Google does not accept import of more than 1 MB. In my case, my calendar was 6 MB and I was getting the following error: “Request Entity Too Large Error 413” – even after switching browsers and changing my ports. Thanks Obama.

Here is a quick tutorial to split the .ics in order to upload a file of 1.000 bytes maximum. First of all, export your old calendar.

Then duplicate the downloaded .ics file and rename the copy “1.ics”. Open it with any text editor and find out where the string of events is starting. The first block of your text file are the settings of your calendar (timezone, date format etc). The events always start with BEGIN:VEVENT and ends with END:VEVENT. The calendar itself starts with BEGIN:VCALENDAR and ends with END:VCALENDAR.

What you need to do is pick out the quantity of data of less than ≈1 MB. So let’s say your calendar is 5MB, try to select about 20% of the events. Delete the rest of the file (until the last END:VEVENT), keep the last line (END:VCALENDAR) and save. Double check that your file is less than 1 MB and start again with duplicating the main file, rename it to 2.ics, delete the part you already saved under 1.ics and select 20% of the text file. Delete the rest until the last line.

It’s a bit a pain but in 10 minutes you will theoretically have a few .ics files under 1 MB. Be sure to keep the calendar infos at the beginning, to keep the event structure (BEGIN:VCALENDAR and END:VCALENDAR) and to include the last line (ND:VCALENDAR).

Once this is done, go to your new calendar. Click on settings > calendar > tasks > import calendar. 

Super proud to have been accepted to Start-Up Chile! Out of 1.900 start-ups, less than 100 have been selected to the attend one of the best incubators Chile’s. It seems we will stay in Latin America a bit longer.

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This is a conflicted moment in my professional life. Sad to leave The European and its amazing team after two fruitful years and super excited to officially start my roll in a vibrant Startup with a mission close to my heart: The ethical fashion label VIRTŪ shared sense that aim to solve the unaccounted social inequality in the clothing industry around the world through beautiful-high quality garments. Join me in bringing opportunities to those who never had any. 

As my grandpa used to say, “An exit a year keeps the lawyer busy”. After several weeks of negotiation The European has been acquired by the Weimer Media Group. Mr. Förtsch and Börsenmedien AG decided to cede the magazine to Mr. Weimer and Weimer Media Group.

I'm convinced The European has found the ideal partner to facilitate its expansion and am proud to have played a part in its ongoing story.  The illustration from akyanyme for The Hundert is quite hilarious I must say. Read more (in German): Handelsblatt  Meedia  Horizont