Posts Tagged ‘hubs’
Press release: Sandbox launches hub in Beijing
Friday, May 27th, 2011As part of its expansion into East Asia, Sandbox is glad to announce the official opening of its Beijing hub. “Suchen-Founder Leon Chen has done a great job of already building an informal community there, now Alice La Wang and Jay Lee will take it to a new and exciting level”, says Sandbox Co-Founder Christian [...]
Read More..(2)Nairobi on fire
Friday, March 25th, 2011Building the first Sandbox Hub in Africa is no mean feat. You need all the help you can get. So a few days ago I casually met up with Acumen Fund’s head of Global Fellows Blair Miller, and the Fund’s East Africa Fellowship coordinator Suraj Sudhakar, which quickly turned into an organic brainstorming session with [...]
Read More..(0)Conquering the “Whore of the Orient”
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Lilly Bussmann is a former Sandbox community manager and freshly arrived in Shanghai, where she will stay until summer. She brought the Sandbox spirit to China and organized a dinner at the beginning of this week with local members. Over the next months, she will occasionally report about her Chinese life on this blog. “If [...]
Read More..(0)New referral-based application process
Monday, December 6th, 2010The problem With Sandbox gaining momentum, the number of applications has risen exponentially over the last months and we started having difficulties to manage the incoming flow from our Zurich headquarters. Also, until last week, candidates could apply from anywhere, which led to two major issues: – isolated members don’t benefit as much from Sandbox [...]
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