Archive of the category: "Talents"
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 [...]
Weekly inspiration #22: Attracting the best and the brightest
This year, I had the privilege to follow World Economic Forum Annual Meeting from the inside. The week I spent in the Swiss mountains was totally inspiring, both for the people I met as for the discussions going on.
A session that especially passioned me was a dinner with Mexican President Felipe Calderón among other prominent [...]
Sandbox at DLD in Munich & World Economic Forum in Davos
A lot of traveling happening in the Sandbox team right now. Antoine just came from Singapore where we hosted an event with the Minister of Entrepreneurship (huge thanks to Sandboxer Andi Brenner for the amazing organization!), and our team will be at Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich and at the World Economic Forum [...]
Sandbox’ partner OYW in The Economist
Sandbox’ exclusive talent partner OneYoungWorld has been covered by The Economist’s The World in 2010. We are glad and proud that the event, for which Sandboxer Lucian Tarnowski does the social media search, is attracting the deserved global attention.
The summit of 1500 delegates from allover the world, which will (for the first time in history) [...]
One hour with Sebastian Lindstrom
Yesterday morning, Julian, Paul, Sara and I had breakfast with Sebastian Lindstrom at Zurich main station, where he was stopping by for one hour on his way to Copenhagen - Paris - Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea, where he should arrive before Christmas.
In one hour, we talked about COP 15 (Sebastian attended the Summit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Innovators Gather in Washington DC
Sandbox dinners are a place where emerging ideas and the innovators behind them meet. Last Friday, Sandboxers and potential members came together in Kramers Books and Afterwords, a well-known Washington venue. Nested in the restaurants upstairs balcony, the Sandbox group of technologists, social media experts, entrepreneurs, and other passionate innovators shared their stories.
Among [...]
Sandboxing in London and setting a global agenda
Thanks to our ambassador Paolo Rigutto, the last weeks have been filled with various Sandbox dinners in London which sparked several ideas on (social) innovation and the agenda-setting potential of Sandbox on a global scale.
On a dinner focusing around entrepreneurship, potential Sandboxer Mai-Li Hammargren told us about her exciting new time-tracking application, which has won [...]
Sandbox partners up with Europe’s leading Speaker Agency
Sandbox is very proud to announce its partnership with JLA- Europe’s leading speaker agency.
JLA is UK’s biggest specialist agency for keynote, motivational and after dinner speakers, conference presenters, and awards hosts.
This move will enable our talents to speak at major events and conferences, and opens up major opportunities for Sandboxers.
We are looking forward to a [...]
