Each day, we look at everything that is going on in the Sandbox, searching for impactful projects, stories and ideas by Sandboxers. We then repost the most interesting, inspiring or brilliant stuff here on our blog.

Today Joeri van Geelen shares an excerpt of his MSc thesis about entrepreneurial networking. Joeri has researched how the networking of entrepreneurs differs from that of managers. His concluding recommendations are indeed timely advice since the Sandbox Global Summit is just around the corner. If you would like to know more about Joeri’s research, connect with him on Facebook.

This thesis was designed to make network theory more operational and practical. Specifically, it aimed to inspire network practitioners to develop workable network strategies to then firmly network while positioning themselves in appropriate formal and informal networks. To answer upon this request, the researcher came up with a range of recommendations for network practitioners in general. Whereas some recommendations were directly deduced from earlier discussed findings, others extend beyond the scope of this research. The recommendations of the latter kind were built upon the researcher’s empirical and practical understanding developed throughout the course of this thesis project.

As a point of departure, networking is about getting to know people, meeting people and broadening one’s network. Accordingly, this thesis is confident that the more people one knows, the more opportunities one will be presented with. To further recognise the importance of networking for both personal and corporate benefits, the interviews provided insights into an overall four direct effects of networking: (1) identify new ideas and opportunities; (2) gain easy and cheap access to resources with the use of networks; (3) build credibility and a good reputation; and (4) moral support from a network of business colleagues and friends. Next, this thesis proposes that these four direct effects provide access to a more innovative firm with a higher probability of growth in both national and international markets. In order for network participants to fully capitalise upon the rich potential of networks, the operationalisation in this thesis can be used as a guiding framework to determine, prepare, exercise, follow-up and evaluate networking strategy.

1.1.1 Motivations and Goals

Determine for what purpose networks are to be used. This thesis provided the incentive for network practitioners to critically assess one’s motivations and goals for networking, because one will not reap the full benefits if one networks “just for the sake of networking”. To further discriminate, the data revealed the existence of two different types of networks: (1) networks for generating sales; and (2) networks to learn from others to therewith improve the firm. Whereas managers primarily use their networks for sales, entrepreneurs were more motivated to learn for themselves and for their firms. Either way, both networks should be used to generate the highest possible return on investment. In order to do so, one is recommended to determine for what purpose one wants to use his or her networks. Although it ispractically impossible to determine the most effective network configuration for each and every case, the guiding principle is to develop and maintain a diverse network of weak and strong ties to enable for achieving higher revenues and faster growth.

Find the right balance between formal and informal networks. Whereas this thesis for the most part concentrated on informal personal networks, interviewees also referred to their participation in formal networks (e.g. branch, industry, SME and trade organisations). To reflect upon the latter, the mainstream thought on networking at work in formal networks can be summarised as: “drinking coffee, whiskey, smoking a cigar and eating good food.” Overall, such formal networks often consist of the same contacts, which may provide for both pros and cons. The advantage may be that formal networks deliver strong ties of friends who can directly provide assistance or indirectly set up a personal introduction to others. On the other side, the researcher also envisions the risk in that members in formal networks may not look beyond their inner-group of current contacts. The practical implication may be that the same circle of strong ties from formal networks will not sufficiently provide for new and innovative ideas and opportunities. For that reason, membership of formal networks may not be necessary per se. Rather, this thesis emphasised the benefits that can be reaped through more informal personal networks; deemed especially relevant for entrepreneurs. To further nuance though, the researcher can also imagine that the more specialised firms need a strong network of well-connected individuals who can facilitate contact with and entry into the appropriate supply and the sales channels.

1.1.2 Preparations

Devise a unique strategy that has a good probability of success for the firm. The data revealed that many individuals do not think about what to eventually take out of networking events and meetings. To illustrate, an oft-cited phrase was “I just want to speak with many people”, which obviously is a rather vague and general motive. To reap maximum benefits out of networking events, this thesis emphasises and proposes the importance of preparation. To begin with, one is encouraged to carefully go through the participant list so as to know with whom one can meet. Thereafter, one should depict the most promising contacts for his or her firm and make sure to pre-arrange meetings with them. Meanwhile, it makes sense to yet plan the follow-up activity in advance of any networking event.

Try to understand the dynamics of the setting in which networking takes place. This study provided the incentive to anticipate upon and understand the dynamics of a networking setting. In fact, it can help practitioners to specifically prepare for their network engagement on site. The advice is thus to envision the dynamic features of a networking event and act accordingly.

Deliberately improve networking competency and skill. The benefits of proactive, entrepreneurial networking cannot be stressed enough. Therefore, it is pivotal to personally develop networking competency and skill so as to make most effective use of networks to therewith improve business activity.

1.1.3 Networking at Work

Capitalise upon informal networking activity to intensify the strength of ties. The more informal contact moments provide the opportunity for network actors to engage in deeper, more personal and intense levels of interaction. Additionally, valuable information can be obtained through such informal social encounters, which usually take place in and around the more formal activities at networking events.

Proactively ask questions to create new ideas and opportunities. Taking a proactive stance in asking questions is an element of one’s degree of entrepreneurship. The data revealed that it frequently leads to answers that contain valuable information, which then can be transformed into new opportunities.

First give and add value to others. The win-win or first-give-and-then-take approach is more constructive for intensifying relationships than the rather impersonal exchange-of-business-cards approach. The former, more cooperative stance usually provides for long-term added value.

1.1.4 Follow-up

Systematically engage in follow-up contact. In order to retain and not to lose contact, one needs to carefully exercise follow-up contact after networking takes place. The post-event trajectory is fundamental for prolonging the meeting momentum. To exemplify its significance, often sales are not yet established at a networking event itself, but often only materialise after the event by means of contact follow-up.

1.1.5 Outcomes

Frequently evaluate the value of existing networks. Important to note, the effect of networks is not always measurable in monetary terms. Added value can also be immaterial, which may just as well turn financially profitable over time. Either way, one is encouraged to routinely evaluate the amount of time invested in a contact and the return on this time invested. In this way, one can critically reflect upon the scope and depth of one’s networks, so as to determine if networks are most optimally used.

If you are interested in a more detailed summary of Joeri’s work, you can access one here. You can also read more about Joeri’s work on the entrepreneurship blog Dutch Valley.

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Today Harry Mylonadis presents his latest creation, the über-geeky CPU Wars game. It’s a trump card game based on the performance specifications of computer processors. Check out CPU Wars on Kickstarter and connect with Harry on Twitter and Facebook.

The project is already fully funded on Kickstarter, but you still have one week to make a pledge and make sure that you receive a CPU Wars deck.

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Today Alex Budak shares his seven best tips on how to turn ideas into impact. You can read Alex’s original guest blog post on US News and connect with him on Twitter and Facebook.

Having an idea is relatively easy; the hard part is making it happen.

Through my work with StartSomeGood.com, a platform for helping social good initiatives raise funds and grow a community of supporters, I help social entrepreneurs transform ideas for good into action and impact. I’ve learned a few things from working with these change-makers. Here are seven tips for how to make that great idea a reality.

1. Tell people about your idea. Too often people sit on great ideas, consumed by fear. Fear of failure—what if my idea tanks? Fear of success—what if this takes off and changes my life forever? Fear of copycats—what if someone else steals my idea? The first step in taking action on your idea is simply sharing it with others. When I began sharing my concept of StartSomeGood, not only did I start building the confidence that it was worth doing, I also received the type of feedback that was crucial to refining the concept and model.

2. Find a co-founder. Entrepreneurship is tough. I knew that going in, but still didn’t expect the roller coaster ride I’ve experienced. For this reason, it’s crucial to have a teammate as dedicated to your vision as you are. The journey of an entrepreneur can be lonely. Do all you can to have a partner ready to board the roller coaster with you.

3. Start small. Facebook wasn’t built in a night, and the journey of Google started with a single line of code. Trying to build something of that size leads to inaction by paralysis. Launch. Test your idea. Iterate. But before you dream of a million users, just try to make your first 100 as happy as possible.

4. Take advantage of free tools. Of course you know of Skype, Gmail, and Google Docs as killer—and cost-effective—communication tools. But if you spend a bit of time—especially as a small start-up—you can find all kinds of amazing free tools to help you. From Pivotal Tracker for project management to Dropbox for syncing documents, the capital costs can be extremely low to get started. Oh, and my favorite free tip: Try working from hotel lobbies. The fancier ones have free wifi, fruit-infused water, and some great people watching.

5. Never say no to a connection. I’ve found that entrepreneurs are great connectors, so whenever someone says, “Hey you should meet so-and-so,” take them up on the offer. Get invited to speak at a conference even if it’s a drive away and not your target audience? Jump at the opportunity—you never know who you’ll meet, or how this wonderfully interconnected world will play out to your benefit.

6. Build a support network. You’ve already got a co-founder, but surround yourself with others—both entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs—that will help bolster your journey. Lots of great professional groups exist for entrepreneurs which are important, but equally crucial is connecting with those non-entrepreneurial types that can help re-ground you in reality.

7. Take care of yourself. You’re pumped-up and stressed-out. You’re working 18-hour days and wish that daylight savings time occurred daily so you could bend the laws of physics and have constant 25-hour days. But in this flurry of activity make time for three things: sleep, eating well, and exercise. These seem like the three easiest things to give up, but they’re the three things that ignoring will make your work-life that much more stressful. Disconnect, unplug, eat whole grains, and you’ll be better prepared for the challenges that will come your way.

An idea left stranded somewhere in your brain can benefit only you. By getting that idea out there and starting the process of action, you’ll be amazed at how, in the words of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho “the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” So get out there and do it. Just remember to stop to breathe occasionally along the way.

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Today Max Marmer shares his idea on how to make visions of the future more anchored. You can read Max’s original blog post here and connect with him on Twitter and Facebook.

Recently I have been exploring the ideas of Ken Wilber. His theories are fascinating, but I’ve found when discussing his ideas with friends many have met them with great skepticism.

I agree he is not perfect. And after exploring others critique of him on the web, and thinking about my own experience of his text, I decided my biggest problems with Ken Wilber are twofold.

1) He implies too much consensus.

2) He does not engage in enough public discourse about his ideas.

However, it’s important to note that he has not built his theories, as far as I can tell on anything that is patently false. I think the reason he does this is expediency. His books are already 800 pages. If he had to discuss the debate on each of his assumptions that would be it’s own book unto itself, where he wouldn’t get the chance to present any new ideas, and that would hardly be worth the read.

I realized this problem is endemic to many of the authors and thinkers I’m most fascinated by: Clare Graves, John Smart, Kevin Kelly, Ray Kurzweil, Don Riso etc. They are all building models to better explain the past and present and predict the future, but some of their assumptions are based on scientific fact and some of their assumptions are unproven. And it’s often hard to tell which are which. Furthermore, some of their assumptions are built on top of their unproven assumptions.

Most people are not comfortable with any uncertainty, much less multiple levels of uncertainty, which is one of the main reasons why many of the theories of the authors I’ve listed above do not have much mainstream acceptance in the general public or academia.

However, we as a society cannot dismiss these people and their models. They are the visionaries who are attempting to climb the tallest mountain they can find and see farther than any man has seen before. Society needs to be giving these people more attention and resources, not less. We just need a better mechanism for separating the wheat from the chaff, and shifting much of the burden of truth verification off the individual reader. What we need is more transparency. We need to be able to more easily identify shaky mountains from ones based on solid ground. And we need to be able to separate the scientifically validated ground from the visions in the air. We need to make our models more explicit. We need more rigorous futurism.

I can imagine a tool that could provide a standardized format for:

1) Listing the core assumptions of the model, and separating the scientifically validated facts from the hypotheses.

2) The bold conclusions that follow if all the assumptions and presuppositions are true.

3) Monitoring and debating the scientific validity of all of the assumptions as the scientific community runs new experiments and gains new evidence.

4) Followers to discuss alternative theories based on the same set of assumptions.

5) Authors or other leading proponents of the theory to share their thoughts and analysis in real time as new evidence rolls in.

This could serve as underlying reference structure or metadata for any one of the visionaries listed above. This should be possible, especially as we move off the antiquated medium of distributing ideas on paper to more accommodating digital mediums.

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Today Edward Harran shares with us his recent talk at TEDxBrisbane. You can read Edward’s thoughts on the talk on his blog. Edward is eager to hear your feedback and ideas on how to accelerate the knowmadic movement, so get back to him via Twitter or Facebook.

Edward speaks about his personal journey and where he sees the future of learning and self-expression. Through Sandbox and his other networks, Edward has become connected to people who, like himself, are seeing an evolution toward a rebirth of the renaissance person. But the key question is: Which are the frameworks of this evolution that will provide groundedness for the emerging tribe of knowmads?

We believe that Sandbox, as a family for young talents who think differently and therefore achieve extraordinary things, is definitely one of them. And we are inspired each day by learning about the initiatives for a new breed of learning and education that thrive among our members. One example is Kundavi, that recently hosted the Sandbox Transamerica Expedition. Take a short flight from Kundavi’s first creativity hub in Los Cabos, Mexico, and you land in at the blackbox mansion. This commune for technology entrepreneurs is contributing to the emerging science of high-tech entrepreneurship through its global network. Up in the Rockies, in Boulder, CA, resides the Unreasonable Institute, an accelerator for the most ambitious changemakers. But this is only the beginning of the Hippie 2.0 movement.

Like his fellow Sandboxers, Edward doesn’t believe in a world of information noise. Statements and visions yield the best results when they are coupled with action. Seeing what is coming is important and so is doing something with it. So if you are already on the same knowmadic path as Edward or have ideas on how he could proceed with his exploration, don’t hesitate to reach out to him.

Every day, we search the web for impactful content, projects, ventures and ideas by Sandboxers. Twice a week, we choose the most inspiring, funny or brilliant piece and publish it here on our blog.

This week Mariano Kostelec tells the story behind UniPlaces.com – the official student accommodation portal in Portugal, and travelaBunch.com – an online company to offer amazing travel experiences for people to share with their friends. 

1. Tell us the story of your project – how did everything begin? What motivated you to start this project?

I enjoy travelling and visiting new places. In fact, I lived in 4 countries so far this year, and visited dozens of other places.  After spending several months working at Groupon and later at Wimdu in their expansion throughout Asia, I returned to Europe two months ago, where I teamed up with Ben and Miguel to start a new business.

After looking into several different opportunities, we realized we all share the same passion for travelling, and that’s how travelaBunch.com was born. We also launched uniplaces.com, to tackle the problem of finding student accommodation in Portugal – as we saw a clear need for this when we first came here.

2. What was the biggest success of your project, so far?

We have so far had great success with both Uniplaces.com and TravelaBunch.com.

UniPlaces become immediately recognized as the official student accommodation portal in Portugal, and we have so far secured partnerships with the leading universities in the country.  Only weeks after launching, the website has already over 2,000 listings for properties around the major Portuguese universities and the number keeps rising every week. Our goal for uniplaces.com is to expand the business to other European countries, and become the leading brand for student accommodation. We also recently participated in the Startup Weekend in Lisbon with this project and won the first prize.

TravelaBunch.com has also been received extremely positively from potential customers and partners. So far we have already identified numerous unique and exceptional experiences that we will be offering through our website soon, and we have secured several promising partnerships.

3. What is your project’s biggest challenge at the moment?

Our major challenges at the moment are the following:

- Growing our large subscriber base for travelaBunch.com (if you haven’t done so yet, check out the site here!)
- Identifying the best travel experiences we can possibly offer to our customers and negotiate with suppliers to prepare packages to offer through travelaBunch
- Find amazing talent to join our team and help grow both ventures throughout Europe and beyond.

4. How do you see your project evolve in the next:

a) 6 months: In 6 months’ time, we will have launched our online portal for travelaBunch, and we will have been offering exceptional travel experiences directly through our site.  By then we will also have already had great exposure and partnerships with numerous suppliers from around the world. Also, by then Uniplaces.com will be present in at least two more countries other than Portugal.

b) 3 years: In 3 years from now travelaBunch will be recognized as the place to go to book great travel experiences and to look for inspiration. We will by then have also developed our core business and expanded to other promising segments in the travel industry. As for Uniplaces, in the next 3 years we see the company to be recognized all over Europe as a leading brand in the student market, offering accommodation for students as well as other related services.

5. Who are your role models? Why?

Peter Thiel. He is a true entrepreneur, and is constantly pushing boundaries and challenging what other people take for granted.  After successfully founding and selling Paypal he started a hedge fund, and later on he invested in numerous companies. He has also contributed enormously to Facebook’s growth to become the powerhouse that it is today. Peter also encourages young entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams even before finishing their college degrees, with the Thiel Fellowship, through which he offers them grants to drop out of college and focus on their projects.

6. What advice would you give to young people that want to start their own project?

I would say that whatever project you would like to start, do it now. Don’t delay it for the future it’s always easy to think that we will start after finishing university, or after saving enough money, or working elsewhere for several years. The earlier you start the better.

7. How could other Sandboxers and the outside world support your project?

There are two main ways:

- If you haven’t done so yet, sing up to travelabunch.com and let me know what travel experiences you would like to be able to book through the site. We are constantly exploring the different corners of the world to find unique experiences, but any great suggestions are also welcome!
- I’m always interested in speaking with smart and talented entrepreneurs and leaders who would like to contribute either to the expansion of travelaBunch or Uniplaces around the world.  Drop me an email or let me know if you have other people who you would like to recommend.

Every day, we look at everything that is going on in the Sandbox, searching for impactful projects, stories and ideas by Sandboxers. We then repost the most interesting, inspiring or brilliant stuff here on our blog.

Today Andy Ellwood shares a reflection on news overload and peer curation. Andy is the Director of Business Development at Gowalla and passionate about connecting good people and great opportunities. Check out the original of this blog post here and share your thoughts with Andy via Twitter or Facebook.

Conrad Murray is just the latest Amanda Knox who was the most recent Casey Anthony. And, despite the fact that you may or may not have remembered that name after it fell out of the 24 hour news cycle a couple months ago, you took time out of your day to give a rip because… well, why again?

In the same way that our overly connected world has encouraged us to have an opinion and be involved with every worthwhile cause, the sensationalism of “news” is at an all time high. With the wonders of Facebook and Twitter, everyone can be a part of breaking the “news” as it happens. And, while that is an adrenaline rush that I’ve never really understood or invested much time in experiencing, yesterday afternoon when I looked at the content being shared and commented on, it was all about a verdict in a case that, if asked about it a week before, none of the folks I interact with online would have cared about. But, since it was breaking news, it filled my timeline on Facebook and Twitter for about 15 minutes and everyone had an opinion. Then it was done.

I admittedly have a very low information diet. I don’t go looking for news and when news finds me, I don’t pay that much attention to it unless it is actionable and relevant to the priorities I have set for my day or the endeavors I am in the midst of. I use my relationships on the interwebs to filter news the same way that royalty used to have food tasters to make sure they don’t get poisoned. If enough of my friends care about an article or a subject outside of my focus, then I’ll take a look. Otherwise, I let someone else waste their time reading about stuff that doesn’t matter in search of the stuff that does.

Just because a story is on a “news” site, in a magazine, or made it on tv doesn’t mean you have to care. Don’t let the fear of missing out (FOMO) on news paralyze you and cause you to miss out on making the most of the things that actually matter.

Every day, we look at everything that is going on in the Sandbox, searching for impactful projects, stories and ideas by Sandboxers. We then repost the most interesting, inspiring or brilliant stuff here on our blog.

Today Jonathan Kalan has selected four of his personal favorite shots from PuraVidaPhotos, representing the diversity of projects he is working on. PuraVida is the outlet for Jonathan’s photos from BoP Project, photojournalism at the base of the economic pyramid. For more updates, connect with Jonathan on Twitter and Facebook.

“I’ve just finished a feature article for Destination Magazine East Africa on Kenya’s vanishing wildlife. In 35 years, Kenya has lost 80% of it’s large wildlife as a result of explosive population growth, pressures on land, and increasing concentration of livestock grazing. Private-sector ‘conservancies’ are creating interesting conservation incentive structures for landowners, but it’s a long road ahead.

Kakuma, in Northwestern Kenya near the Sudanese boarder, is Kenya’s second largest refugee camp – yet refugees aren’t the only ones who need help. The host population of nomadic Turkana pastoralists, like the woman above, has skyrocketed from 7,000 in 1992 to nearly 87,000 now, and they are directly tied to the camp through a complex web of economic activities and aid. I’m currently working on a piece about the host population, and their dependancies on the refugee populations.

Vitalis Odhiambo – AKA “Diddy” – is simply a BOSS. He’s a young entrepreneur from the heart of Nairobi’s Kibera slums, and an excellent fixer for journalists. He makes a living washing cars, but is developing a business around slum tours and has a solid business plan for an internet/playstation cafe in Kibera in the coming year. All he needs? $1,000 USD.

Over the next year leading up to Kenya’s elections, I’ll be tracking graffiti as a form of social and political expression for youth across the city. Here, an homage to the late Kenyan Nobel Prize winner and environmental hero Wangari Maathai, on a bus shelter wall.”

If you are interested in more of Jonathan’s work, then check out his recent contributions to Huffington Post, Global Post and How We Made It In Africa.

Every day, we search the web for impactful content, projects, ventures and ideas by Sandboxers. Twice a week, we choose the most inspiring, funny or brilliant piece and publish it here on our blog.

This week Harry Mylonadis tells the story behind minimoko. Harry is the Creative Thinker at minimoko, the brand consultancy that loves simplicity! Check Minimoko on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news.

1. Tell us the story of your project – how did everything begin? What motivated you to start this project?

It all began 2 years ago. Elena (my partner in work and life) and I had been talking about starting something together for some time. In October 2010, while having sushi at our favourite sushi restaurant, I told her that this is it “We will start our design company that will help people simplify and engage with their audience”. At that point, we were fed up with people complicating things, being bland and not knowing how to promote their products and services. So we took the plunge and started minimoko. Our focus has always been simplicity and branding but how we present ourselves has changed over the past two years. We realised that in order for people to engage with us we needed to speak in the same language and communicate the effect of our work on what they do. Two years on and the morphing of minimoko is complete, we grow products and services into cool brands that stand out and stick in people’s minds.

2. What was the biggest success of your project, so far?

When we started we had a very limited budget and a small network. Over the past 2 years, we have been able to get new clients just by word of mouth and organic searches, we’ve been invited to host talks and workshops and one of our logos was even published in a book.

3. What is your project’s biggest challenge at the moment?

Our biggest challenge at the moment is disseminating our message. Part of the challenge is the fact that we spent the last two years into finalising the position of our company and now that we have, the real challenge begins.

4. How do you see your project evolve in the next:

a) 6 months: We have recently changed our position to focus more on consulting businesses and running workshops. In the following 6 months we will work towards creating more workshops and “packages” that can help companies start, reposition and build kick-ass brands.

b) 3 years: We’re trying to find ways to make branding services more accessible for small and medium sized companies, without lowering the quality and benefits. In the next 3 years we will work more on building tools that people can use to build a brand.

5. Who are your role models? Why?

Dieter Rams. For exemplifying the use of simplicity in design.

Steve Jobs. For not only being an unforgettable innovator, marketer, brand builder and leader, but for also keeping his personal life separate from his professional one.

6. What advice would you give to young people that want to start their own project?

Stop reading and talking about starting and do it. The idea doesn’t have to be final. To succeed you will need to make changes in what you are doing as you move forward. The only way to find out is by starting.

7. How could other Sandboxers and the outside world support your project?

The best way to support us is by spreading our message on branding and simplicity. A good place to start is by reading our manifesto here. If you agree with what it says then you can print it, share it and repost it.

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Today Thomas Jörg gives us a sneak-peek of OFF BEAT, a movie he has produced. Check out the trailer here or below. If you happen to be in Zurich, make sure to meet the cast and crew at the RiffRaff cinema tonight for the world premiere!

The film tells the story of the rapper Lukas who breaks up with his producer, and lover, Mischa. The situation gets worse when Mischa recruits Lukas’s brother Sämi to his next big music project. The progressive hiphop soundtrack plays a big role in the film and it is performed by a selection of Switzerland’s top MCs. Here is the track ‘Falsche freunde’ by Chocolococolo, taken from the double album that accompanies the film:

If you cannot make it to the premiere tonight, check out the screening schedule here.