Archive for the tag: "entrepreneurship"
Meet a Sandbox Member: Patrick Boström
Patrick Boström is 24 years old and was born and raised in Sweden. He is currently studying in Hong Kong. Besides beeing responsible for coordinating a volunteer project with Light for Children he and his team just won the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Challenge competition.
Patrick on facebook and twitter.
Tell us the story of your latest project / [...]
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 [...]
Dinner in Zurich with Raymond Abelin
Victoria’s nose, Raymond, Antoine, Lucas and Daniel
We recently had the pleasure to welcome Raymond Abelin to a dinner with the Zurich community. Currently Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU), one of the best entrepreneurship programs with a focus on technology. He was visiting Switzerland last week and contacted [...]
Sandbox now partnering with Enternships.com
Sandbox is happy to announce that we are now partnering with Enternships.com, a new way for students to find work experience at some of the most exciting small businesses. The free service has been dreamed up by university graduates and is supported by The Daily Telegraph. It aims to raise visibility of small businesses and [...]
Know Your (Geographic) Advantage
Click below to read the second blog post about Sandbox from Susan Su’s small series “Entrepreneur Lessons from outside the Valley”. Have a look at it! It’s well written and gives good insights into our business model.
Entrepreneur Lessons From Outside the Valley
Susan Su, a young and dynamic Stanford grad now working for Hi5 in San Francisco has recently interviewed me for her blog, Ask Entrepreneurs. Click below to read more.
Sandboxer nominated to become Swedish Business Student of the Year!
Fredrik Hagenius - a Sandboxer and co-founder of the Young entrepreneurs of Sweden - has been nominated to become Swedish Business Student of the Year. Cast your vote!
IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University
I’m back in New York from inspiring days at the IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University. Every year, student leaders from all the 8 Ivy League Universities meet to exchange ideas and listen to extraordinary keynotes (for example Sergei Nikititsch Khrushchev, son of former Sovjet Prime Minister Khrushchev and professor at Brown, “The Cuban [...]
Follow-up from Entreprenörsdagen in Göteborg
Photo by Martin Stenmark, Sweden
I had the great pleasure to speak at the Entreprenörsdagen last Monday in Göteborg, Sweden, about Generation Y Entrepreneurs and their ways of doing business. I met so many exciting people in Sweden and will publish some of the video interviews I made in the next couple of days and weeks [...]
