Monthly archive for May 2009
Ivy League Fondue in Geneva
I had the pleasure to organise a dinner in Geneva on Tuesday to meet a delegation of 15 Ivy League students in a historic and diplomatic trip to Belgium, Switzerland and Turkey (the “Ivy Europe & Middle-East Summit”) – and introduce them to some local Sandbox members. As most of them were for the first [...]
Oriental Night at Kenza
25 Sandboxers, potential members, and some special guests met at London’s Kenza Restaurant to celebrate an oriental night around good food and brilliant people. The topics were wide-spread, as it were the people. Fraser Doherty, Global Student Entrepreneur 2007, gave interesting insights into “storytelling”, a topic which was curiously debated by both practitioners and academics [...]
Sandbox Dinner in New York
Sandbox Members in NYC had a lot to celebrate at the last dinner: the students from Columbia were relieved after the end of their semester, Marc and Aaron from Urtak just moved into a new office, Naked-Generations founder Christopher was visiting from London and Mike and Dave announced their decision to go fulltime with Holstee [...]
Meet a Sandbox member: Nirav Shah
Meet Nirav Shah, social entrepreneur based in Pondicherry, India. He is the COO of 2 companies: PlanetRead, a non profit organisation, and BookBox, a social entreprise.
Sandbox Dinner in Zurich
from left to right: Ben, Johanna, Daniel & Camille We had a very good and inspiring Dinner in Zurich last Tuesday with Ben Casnocha, who was in Switzerland for the ISC Symposium and who visited us just before flying back to San Francisco. Ben is the founder of Comcate Inc., an e-government software company which [...]
The newsletter for May: Innovation in air travel & Dinners everywhere
We just sent out our newsletter for Mai. In the first section, fellow Sandboxer Simon Rohrbach takes a look at developments in the aviation industry. We give you a short update on what has been going on at Sandbox in the last months, and you’ll find our usual “interesting stuff we came across” section at the end. Reading time is about 10 minutes.
Palomar5 Microcamp in Berlin
A new project from our friends Hans & Mathias, the Palomar5 Microcamp is an exclusive innovation camp taking place on May 17-23 in Berlin, which paves the way for a bigger Palomar5 Camp, which will take place in Fall. By gathering 20 young protagonists from the new generation in an inspiring location – expenses covered – Palomar5 Microcamp attempts to raise issues regarding the current way we work, and create alternatives – along future technologies, ethical needs, new leadership models and dynamic eco systems.
Sandbox AG is born!
We are very proud to announce that Sandbox AG has been incorporated yesterday as a Swiss limited company, with the help of angel investors. This investment allows us to professionally manage the Sandbox network in the long term and to further develop services to members, as well as to external clients.
Sandbox now partnering with Enternships.com
Sandbox is happy to announce that we are now partnering with Enternships.com, a new way for students to find work experience at some of the most exciting small businesses. The free service has been dreamed up by university graduates and is supported by The Daily Telegraph. It aims to raise visibility of small businesses and [...]
