Monthly archive for June 2010
Meet a Sandboxer: Dagan Wald
Dagan Wald is known in Tel Aviv, Israel, as DJ DR.ROSS, the best DJ for french music in Israel. Djing on every genre, Dagan has a perminant line every friday night, in Shaffa Bar, in the flea market area in Jaffa. In Tel Aviv he is also known as a filmmaker and created certain Video [...]
From the Sandbox: War Tourism: Why Does this Feel Wrong Again?
Every day, our community manager Katrin Winiarski, reads through her feed of all Sandboxers’ blog posts. Every Thursday, she chooses the most inspiring, funny or brilliant one and reposts it on this blog. This post has been written by Sandboxer Danielle Tomson. The original version can be found here. When I got off the plane [...]
Dare Blake to do something CRAZY for a good cause!
Sandboxer Blake Jennelle is raising money for Startup Corps, a remarkable program that brings real entrepreneurs into high schools. It’s not just teaching. These entrepreneurs coach students as they launch real businesses! Blake taught in this program himself, and claims it is one of the best things he has done this year. We really like [...]
Meet a Sanboxer: Alexandru Ragalie
Alexandru Ragalie lives in Vienna and believes that everyone wants to create a positive contribution in the world, but most of us do not know how and feel that one’s efforts are too insignificant in “the big picture”. That is why he is creating global social businesses that offer everyone the opportunity to do small [...]
Weekly inspiration #38: How we (try to) get things done
Productivity issues – how to get things done quickly and efficiently – are every entrepreneur’s obsession. There’s a vast amount of literature out there on the subject. At Sandbox, we discuss personal productivity often, and we have already written about it once here. Two weeks ago, “Getting things done” was the subject of a short [...]
Podcast #7: Benjamin Rohé
Benjamin Rohé is an entrepreneur based in Berlin. A member of Sandbox, he works and invests in Berlin-based startup and is currently advising Deutsche Telekom on the creation of an incubator. He is also a big fan of FC Kaiserlautern. Find a list of all our podcasts here!
From the Sandbox: Why do you give?
Every day, our community manager Katrin Winiarski, reads through her feed of all Sandboxers’ blog posts. Every Thursday, she chooses the most inspiring, funny or brilliant one and reposts it on this blog. This post has been written by Sandboxer Ehon Chan. The original version can be found here. Philanthropy has never been an interesting [...]
Meet a Sandboxer: David Bauer
David Bauer (27) is a journalist based in Basel, Switzerland. He holds a BA in English and Business from the University of Basel (although he spent most of his time studying philosophy) and a MA in Journalism from the University of Hamburg. People tell him he is pretty decent at putting words in the correct [...]
Ciao-Baba Cathrin, Hallo Lilly!
After three months working with us as a community manager in Zurich, Cathrin Lesslhumer went back to Vienna on Sunday. We would like to take this occasion to publicly thank her for the amazing work she did during her stay.
Weekly Inspiration #37: It’s ok to like sports
The 2010 FIFA World Cup has just started and the planet resonates to the sounds of the Vuvuzelas. Watching sports is a form of entertainment that I never enjoyed much. I tend to see it as a waste of time. I like to play sports, to have fun with friends, but not to watch 22 [...]
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