Archive for August, 2009
Meze, raki & sun
Thursday, August 20th, 2009On 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 [...]
Read More..(0)Weekly inspiration #6: Business as unusual
Monday, August 17th, 2009Maybe 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 [...]
Read More..(4)If you had just one question…
Friday, August 14th, 2009At our weekly brainstorming session yesterday we collected ideas about not so obvious questions to ask applicants to the Sandbox network. Here’s a sample of our sudden inspirations: What was your best holiday ever? What is the best dish you have ever eaten? What’s your favorite Cocktail? If you were a member of a circus [...]
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