Archive for the tag: "food"
Meet a Sandboxer: Artur Majsterek
I had the chance to meet Artur Majsterek as he was passing through New York, and we had coffee at Columbia University on a beautiful day. Artur is a 20-year-old aspiring entrepreneur and management major at the London School of Economics, and his business card says it all: “I run things”. He is currently 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, [...]
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 [...]
Inaugural dinner in San Francisco
12 potential and current Sandbox members joined us for our inaugural dinner at San Francisco’s Bissap Baobab restaurant, which features the cuisine of Senegal. Over couscous, kebabs, and ginger juice, dinner guests shared their startup experiences from a host of diverse backgrounds. Participants present were from Germany, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States. Some [...]
Sandbox Dinner in New York
Sandbox Members in NYC had a lot to celebrate at the last dinner: the students from Columbia were relieved after the end of their semester, Marc and Aaron from Urtak just moved into a new office, Naked-Generations founder Christopher was visiting from London and Mike and Dave announced their decision to go fulltime with Holstee [...]
Sandbox Dinner in Munich
We recently had the pleasure to organise the first Sandbox Dinner in Munich with participants from very different backgrounds: entrepreneurs, business people, scientists, and students from the Bayerische Theaterakademie.
THE WEB-ENHANCED MUESLI FROM GERMANY
Selling Muesli (the german word for cereals) doesn’t sound like the most exciting job in the world, right? But actually, it can be. At least when you’re doing it over the internet, in Web 2.0-style. And this is exactly what Hubertus (27), Philipp (28) and Max (26), three friends who studied together in the german [...]
