Monthly archive for August 2009
A taste of Beirut and Manila
Tonight I had the chance to bring together the local Sandbox Community for the first time in my function as the Singapore Ambassador. I was very much looking forward to catching up with some of the Sandboxers that I had previously met somewhere else around the globe or that I had been in digital contact [...]
Vote for Stephen & GreenSoul Shoes!
Meet New York based Sandboxer Stephen Chen. Stephen founded GreenSoul Shoes, with the mission to shoe underprivileged children around the world in an eco-beneficial fashion. Sounds great no? We can help them by casting our vote in the Forbes Business Plan Competition!
Fred on the road from Gibraltar to North Cape
From March to April 2010 Stockholm Sandboxer and Co-founder of one of our community partners Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden , Fredrik Hagenius, is planning to hop on his bike and cycle from Gibraltar to North Cape. “I’m planning to do this challenge during 30 to 50 days, depending on budget and how good shape I [...]
Thank you, Johanna!
Johanna has been interning at our Zurich office for the last 5 months. During period of time, she has witnessed the incorporation of Sandbox and the opening of several new hubs, organised memorable events, participated to our big Summer strategy workshop and even seen her CEO learning moonwalk. She brought a welcome feminine touch to [...]
On the surprising science of motivation
Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think, that’s what Daniel Pink demonstrates in this talk. There is a mismatch between what science knows and what managers do. How to best motivate people to do work? This message should have been heard by every bank manager two years ago. And is a must-hear for [...]
Rajeeb Dey shortlisted for the 02 X Entrepreneur of the Year Award
London Sandbox member and CEO of Enternships.com (a Sandbox Service partner) Rajeeb Dey has been shortlisted for the 02 X Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He needs your support to reach the National Finals. Please take a moment to vote for him by clicking on the link below: VOTE FOR RAJEEB! You’ll see Rajeeb Dey [...]
The Answer
You might know the YouTube Video United breaks Guitars and it’s Star Dave Carroll. For those who don’t: On a flight from Halifax, Canada to Nebraska, Omaha, Dave’s Taylor guitar worth $3500 was badly damaged by baggage handlers in Chicago and he and other passengers even witnessed the incident. After almost a year of chasing [...]
Generation CPO
Don’t call – we won’t pick up Last week’s «Economist» carried a report on the declining use of landlines in the U.S. and the problems this brings with. More and more people are ditching their landlines and switching to mobile phones only. This creates political problems, because the landlines are subsidized, but it also has [...]
Meze, raki & sun
On my way to South-Caucasus a couple of weeks back, I stopped for five days in one of my world’s favorite cities: Istanbul. With the help of Danielle Tomson – a Yale student working for a local NGO during her Summer holidays and whom I recently met around a fondue in Geneva – we put [...]
Weekly inspiration #6: Business as unusual
Maybe it’s just us, but at Sandbox we feel that the expression «business as usual» is starting to lose its meaning. There just isn’t much «usual» left in business; young entrepreneurial-minded people are challenging every assumption about how it is «supposed to work». Gone are the days where every CEO had an MBA: Nowadays, artists [...]
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