Archive for January, 2010
Monday, January 18th, 2010
In 2009, over-leveraged creativity in global financial markets proved disastrous. At the same time, financial innovations on the micro level have been quite successful: think mobile banking and crowdfunding. Mobile phone penetrations and manifestation of the social web have been central to micro financial innovations. At Sandbox, we’re fascinated by the collective power of the [...]
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Sandboxer Zhihan Lee is currently taking part in a three month long project, supported by his university in Singapore, to support “The Rural Edge“, an Indian-led project which works towards reducing rural poverty sustainably. During their one month stay in India he and his colleagues supported them in creating an online presence and by raising [...]
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Yuxin is one of our Sandbox Ambassadors. He is taking care of the growing Sandbox community in Hong Kong by organizing regular events. Besides being the Sandbox Ambassador to Hong Kong, Yuxin is currently preparing the MaD-conference. This post is based on several questions we sent to Yuxin. Yuxin is currently working with the Global Institute [...]
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
At Sandbox we’re fortunate to interact every day with some of the most inspiring young innovators around the world. Our members are constantly driving new ideas and exploring untouched opportunities. Observing patterns within our community and studying trends of our clients, we identified six major themes to watch out for in 2010 and beyond: 1. [...]
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