Monthly archive for April 2009
“Entrepreneurial Opportunities Amidst Crisis”: Event at Columbia University
We’re excited to announce an event we’re co-sponsoring: “Entrepreneurial Opportunities Amidst Crisis“. Together with Emily Harbourg from Harvard I’m organizing a small but highly interactive event with exciting people, happening here at Columbia University in New York on Friday, April 24th. University students from across the nation will gather at Columbia University in an intimate [...]
Welcome to the team!
We want to give a warm welcome to Johanna, who has begun an internship at Sandbox as part of her final year of studies at the University of Applied Sciences of Regensburg, Germany. She works from the Sandbox headquarters in Zurich [...]
Sandbox Dinner San Francisco
On my recent trip to San Francisco I spent time in Stanford (Sandbox paradise?), meeting up with friends and Alvin from BASE and ASES, two impressive entrepreneurs societies. At one of the evenings we organized in good old Sandbox tradition a dinner with local people from the network.
Sandbox Dinner in Singapore
Last Monday, when arriving from Bangkok, I was as always very relaxed when landing in the lion city and passing out of Changi Airport into the clean and relatively quiet streets. It seems like a completely different world, comfortably easy but also a bit superficial, particularly when coming from rather chaotic places like Bangkok.
The “compass for urban nomads” wins
What to do when you’re in a city, and you quickly need to know the fastest connection to another place by public transport? If you live in Switzerland and have an iPhone, the answer is clear: “GottaGo”. The application, described as a “compass for urban nomads”, provides you with the schedules using your current location. [...]
Tram casting in Zurich
A nice concept seen this morning on my way to the office: a tram casting. The local public transport company wants to renew its fleet, but is not sure if the public would like the new model they planned to buy. So they borrowed a couple to another swiss city using them already, and they branded them in yellow with the mention “swiss first tram casting”.
