Sandbox Archives for August 2010

Archive for August, 2010

Meet a Sandboxer: Mackey Craven

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Mackey Craven, 22, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with an S.M. in Technology and Policy, an S. B. in Biological Engineering, and an S.B. in Mathematics [...]. His Master’s thesis research focused on the role of trade secret law in knowledge disclosure and [...]

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Weekly Inspiration #43: On looking into the eyes of a street child

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

This summer, I spent five weeks in Mumbai doing an internship at India Infoline, while living with my grandparents. It was my first trip to India in almost two years, and I found it harder than ever to predict the direction in which my wonderful, chaotic country is headed. We are truly a land of glorious [...]

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Unleashing the power of emergent entrepreneurship

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Imagine the highest concentration of emergent change makers on the planet in one spot and the unstoppable energy released in such a gathering. This is what happened this weekend in Silicon Valley. Sandbox, Singularity University, and Sparkseed were on a good track to repeat the incredible flashmob phenomenon of TEDxVolcano; within 5 days the collaborative [...]

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Meet a Sandboxer: Sonia Sarkar

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Sonia Sarkar, 22, is an Indian-American originally from Austin, TX. She currently works as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Project HEALTH, a national health care nonprofit dedicated to connecting families with the resources they need to be healthy. Sonia graduated from Johns Hopkins University in May 2008 with a B.A. in Public Health [...]

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