Monthly archive for July 2008
A TRIBUTE TO RANDY PAUSCH
There are many people who inspire us on our way, but hardly anyone who encouraged us as much as Randy Pausch. Randy was a professor of interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon and was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer in 2006. Randy inspired us to really live our dreams and has shaped our lifes in an [...]
SANDBOX DINNER IN LONDON
We were in London last week, mainly for meeting with potential partners. On Monday evening however Severin invited us for a Sandbox dinner, an informal meeting we organize with selected talents wherever we go. We use the excuse of good food for meeting new talents, exchanging ideas and telling them more about Sandbox. And so [...]
OF TECHCRUNCH AND INTERVIEWING OURSELVES
Last Thursday was a big day for Swiss Internet Startups: Mike Butcher of the famous Web 2.0-Blog TechCrunch visited the country, and everybody came to meet him and present their ideas. Sandbox co-organised the event, together with Wuala, Doodle and Newscred. The meet-up took place on the top floor of the Bluewin tower with a [...]
WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FINLAND EDITION
The best innovations can be very small, but they improve the quality of your life in a certain way. And very often, those innovations are already being used somewhere – they just haven’t made it to your home place. That’s why traveling is so great: You discover a lot of those small but useful innovations. [...]
THE COSTS OF E-MAILING
What does an e-mail address cost? Stupid question, you say: Just go to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or one of the many other mail services and you’ll know: E-mail addresses are free. For everyone. But are they? Things might look a little different if you’re a big company. Then, in order to give your employees e-mail [...]
PLAYING IN THE MAASTRICHT SANDBOX
Fabian, Severin and I were in Maastricht (Netherlands) for the week-end to meet Mathias Holzmann, Hans Raffauf and Frederik Eichelbaum, three very exciting Sandboxers with great ideas and a lot of energy to make them happen. The 3 of them are leading a young incubator and currently working on an exciting new venture which we [...]
SANDBOX ON TECHCRUNCH
We’re looking forward to the upcoming TechCrunch Event on July 17th in Zurich and are happy to see that Sandbox is on TechCrunch for the first (but definitely not last) time ;-). Check it out!
SANDBOX @ EHRF
In June, I attended a 3 days-strategy workshop of the European Human Resources Forum in Lugano, Switzerland. The event gathers every year about 20 senior HR executives from all over the world, who take the occasion of this event in a paradisiac location to pause and reflect about their function and the challenges they’re facing [...]
HELLO SILICON VALLEY!
The UK editor of TechCrunch, maybe one of the most popular innovation and new technology blogs worldwide, comes to Zurich on July and we’re helping Domink from Wuala and his team to organize an informal networking event with 150 invited guests. We’re glad that we could convince Mike Butcher to make a stop in Switzerland [...]
