Archive of the category: "Members"
Afterhours in Delhi
Jyoti & Suresh Guptara - Sandbox Ambassadors in Delhi - report from the last Dinner which they have organized with local talents and visiting guests.
Momentum in Delhi was built. Recommendations from internationally scattered Sandbox members and new friends, and two preliminary meetings later, the time was ripe for our first major Sandbox Delhi networking evening. [...]
Kudos of the day
Two Sandboxers made us especially proud today: Lucian Tarnovski was named the youngest European Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Tori Hogan was featured with her project “Beyond Good Intentions” in today’s Wall Street Journal. Wow!
Sandboxer featured on Forbes’ front page
Source: Forbes
Sandboxer Fraser Doherty is featured on the front page of Forbes today, linking to an article about “How to make $1 million before you graduate - Valuable lessons from preternatural wealth builders“. Fraser founded Superjam at age 14 and left school two years later to develop it full time. The company hit $1.2 revenue last year [...]
A Ballot of Bolivian Identity: Today’s Presidential Election
In the US, presidential elections shift trillions of dollars and move armies across the globe. In Bolivia, the stakes are even higher.
El 6 de Deciembre nearly every citizen in the country – voting is obligatory here – will go to the polls for an election whose outcome is certain: a victory for the incumbent indigenous [...]
Congratulations!
We are happy and proud to announce that two Sandboxers have received important awards in the past week:
Susanne Jakob, from Berlin, was elected “Nachwuchskünstlerin des Jahres 2009 der Stadt Berlin im Bereich Darstellende Kunst” a prize given to the best junior performing arts artist in Berlin. Susanne is a stage and costume designer who is [...]
Future of Retail
Sandbox member and Holstee co-founder Michael Radparvar recently published this blogpost on the “Future of Retail” on the incubaker blog.
Increasingly I find people are going into stores with no intention of actually buying anything. They are going to stores to touch, try and ask questions about a product in person then jot down the description [...]
Don’t Mess with Quechuan Grandmothers
Nate Loewentheil recently moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia. He will be publishing occasional pieces here on Bolivian politics as well as his personal adventures. Here’s a piece on his first inter-city bus travel.
Meet a Sandbox member: Andreas Brenner
Sandbox Ambassador Andreas Brenner is a 23 year old German, living in Switzerland and currently studying in Singapore. Besides his studies he is organizing dinners and events for the growing Sandbox community in Singapore. He is passionate about new technologies, especially in the ICT sector and loves skiing as well as delicious food.
Tell us the [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Brian W. Jones
Sandbox member Brian W. Jones is currently living in Greensboro, Alabama where he helped start PieLab, a welcoming community space focused on civic engagement, economic revitalization, and job training. He describes himself as a designer, “trying to redefine what that means and the role I play in business”.
What is your latest project?
I’m working on a few things right now, but a [...]
Meet a Sandbox member: FRASER DOHERTY
Fraser Doherty is 20 years old and comes from Edinburgh, Scotland. He runs SuperJam, a company making a range of 100% fruit jams and supplies all of the major UK supermarkets. He is a member of Sandbox since October 2009.
Hi Fraser, what is the story behind Superjam?
Aged 14, my Gran taught me to make jam [...]
