Sandbox Archives for July 2009

Archive for July, 2009

Meet a Sandbox Member: Edward Harran

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Find out more about our Sandboxer from Australia, Eddie Harran: At an entrepreneurial conference run by Edgeware earlier this year, my friend, Elliott Bledsoe, who spoke at it, introduced himself like this: “I don’t really what I am per se…Semantics are irrelevant.” Those few words struck a cord with me. I don’t need a job title to define my ‘entrepreneur-ness’.

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Changing Places

Monday, July 27th, 2009

My current main occupation is writing my master thesis. Thus, for the last six or so months, most of my days looked like this: I got up. I went to university. I read books. I wrote. And although I was (and still am) fascinated by the topic of my thesis (propagandistic aspects of papal and [...]

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Zappos and the value of corporate culture

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Everybody talks about how important corporate culture is. But often, companies tend to see investments in corporate culture as «luxury» – something that is nice to have, but doesn’t really have a monetary value. Well, two days ago, online retail giant Amazon bought online shoe seller Zappos; they paid almost one billion dollars in shares [...]

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Co-Working and Whuffaoke with Tony Bacigalupo

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Sandboxer and Co-Working Guru Tony Bacigalupo is currently touring across America on a karaoke bus. Follow the tour on twitter. The project Whuffaoke or Bust! is the result of a lot of things converging: his good friend Tara Hunt, a community organizer, marketing consultant and author, Alex Hillman, a coworking space owner from Philadelphia, and [...]

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