1. Spotlight of the Week

OVIA received a $2.5 million first round of funding!

Congratulations to Sandboxer, Chief Executive and Co-founder of OVIA, Rodrigo Martinez who raised the amount of $2.5 million for his video recruiting software company. By removing the phone screening process and introducing video, it will not only reduce the time and costs of recruitement by more than 50%, but also allow jobless people to not be dragged to terrible recruitement processes. Good luck to Rodrigo and his team on their relocation to San Francisco !

2. New in the Sandbox

Molly Crockett

A warm welcome to Molly who is joining the Zurich hub! This neuroscientist tries to answer questions such as : How do our brains create moral judgment? Her work was published in eminent journals such as Science, and has won her several awards as well as interviews with the New York Times and BBC. We are proud to welcome Molly to the Sandbox family!

Shashank Khanna

Shashank is currently working as an interaction designer for Yahoo! India. Being passionate about creating technology and design for social impact, he has among many other things worked on designing microfinance tools for mobile phones and researched at Microsoft. Several of his ideas have already patented- Welcome to the Bangalore hub!

3. Event of the Week

Banter and Biryanis at Sandbox Nairobi Meetup!

Downtown Nairobi restaurant Al Yusra set the stage for the October Sandbox meetup! It also happened to be new Sandboxer Alicia Sully’s 9th day on her Camel Milk diet ; and as the place is one of the few to serve camel milk in the city centre, the fit was perfect ! Present were Jonathan Kalan, Founder of The BoP Project and photojournalist for Christian Science Monitor, NYT and Huffington Post, Doug Akin co-founder of Mr Youth, Edmund Page founder of Xavier Project and Nairobi newbie and Alicia Sully filmmaker with What Took You So Long and Mark Kaigwa, Nairobi Sandbox Ambassador in what turned out to be a lively discussion on the possibility of an African technology bubble, sustainable enterprise in the AppFrican economy, comparisons between life in NYC and Nairobi and chatting about some new candidates for the Sandbox Network locally. What a pity that Sanbdoxer Jin Chucha was away filming an earthquake scene for Just a Band and missed this banter over Biryanis!

Beijing Sandbox Dinner with XpeditionGlobal

A taste of China through the great work of our Beijing Ambassadors who have organized another dinner! Joining this event: 10 young entrepreneurs and graduates from Europe and the US who were on an expedition across China with the theme ‘China’s economic development and its impact’ along with the organizer of StartUp Leadership Programme in Beijing, the founder of Taishan Investment Group, awarded “Most Respectable Angel Fund in China’ by the Founder Magazine and many more. Looking forward to the next ones !

4. Weekly Inspiration

If you haven’t followed the buzz on our Facebook Page this week, then probably you don’t need recommendations or suggestions on how to disconnect, get clarity and peace of mind! However, for those who are bombarded with constant stream of information, advertising, social networking, emails, for those who suffer from this noise and filler, for those who think that the power and impact of distractions is difficult to handle … in this regard by any means you are not unique! This illustration offers advices to tackle this issue. But, what are YOUR tips?

Every day, our community manager, Richard Hylerstedt, searches the Sandbox for impactful content produced by members of our network. Each week, he chooses the most inspiring, funny or brilliant piece of content and reposts it on this blog. This week’s chosen content is a blog post written by Sandboxer Michael Karnjanaprakorn on his blog. Find the original post here and follow Michael on Twitter.

“Creativity is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration” – Thomas Edison

In the corporate world, there’s a standard ladder to climb to get to the top. In the world of entrepreneurship, there is a similar ladder to climb. Entrepreneurs should start with small ideas and learn how to execute those ideas. Learn how to gain traction, learn from your mistakes, and learn how to make something out of nothing. And eventually the ideas you pursue get bigger and bigger.

I’m a firm believer in execution and follow the Thomas Edison quote pretty closely. The secret behind launching your startup idea is to always move the ball forward on your ideas through execution. Every journey for an entrepreneur is completely different but I’d like to share the process that eventually led to the launch of Skillshare.

1. Exploration & Execution. This is a time for the entrepreneur to creatively explore his/her personal interests, ideas (small or big), and consume as much of the world as possible. For me, this involved traveling around the world, reading as many articles/books as possible, meeting as many interesting people I could fit into a day, and executing ideas.

I also knew that I wasn’t ready to be an entrepreneur so I gained startup experience by working at Behance and Hot Potato. On the side, I launched a ton of small ideas including The Feast Conference, By/Association, World Series of Good, TBD, and Lovely Day. By executing all these smaller ideas, the filter for what I wanted to work on got higher and higher.

The idea for Skillshare didn’t happen overnight. It took 5+ years of climbing the ladder of ideas and immersing myself in a lot of different experiences. There is no rush in understanding yourself and your passions. Keep in mind that most entrepreneurs get stuck in this stage because they never execute anything. The more you execute, the more your learn about yourself and your passions. Your goal at this stage is to find a problem you are truly passionate about solving.

2. Brainstorming & Validation. While I was exploring, I wrote down a list of startup ideas, which quickly became a list of over 100+. From there, I narrowed it down to a few ideas and flushed them out extensively. I brainstormed ideas, sketched wireframes, and did everything else I could to understand the opportunity with Malcolm Ong (Skillshare Co-Founder).

We fell in love with one idea around democratizing education and turning cities into huge campuses, which eventually became Skillshare. Rather than spending nights and weekends flushing out the idea even more, we let the idea sit and marinate for a pretty long time. I personally spent a lot of time validating the idea as I didn’t want to fall in love with it too easily. In other words, I did all the research I could to convince myself this was worth my time, which is the true goal at this stage.

3. Feedback & Commitment. Once I convinced myself this was an idea I’d like to pursue, I asked a dozen really smart people I knew what they thought about the idea with a small twist. Rather than asking them if they liked it, I asked them why the idea wouldn’t work, why it would fail, and why I shouldn’t work on it. Malcolm did the same thing and we eventually had a list of 20-30 huge holes in our idea.

We hit the drawing board again and came up with solutions to plug all the holes. We went back out to a dozen different people and asked the same questions. We repeated this until almost every hole was plugged in our startup idea. We eventually had rebuttals for rebuttals and felt very confident that we should commit to working on this for the next 5+ years of our lives.

Your goal at this stage is to “go all in” on your idea and put your stake in the ground. This was the hardest part of the process for me but once you put your chips in the middle, it’s the best feeling in the world. Remember that you’re running a marathon, not a 5K.

4. MVP (Minimum Viable Product). Malcolm and I agreed that we wouldn’t write one line of backend code unless we knew this was something that people wanted. We did this by setting two really simple milestones: a) 1,000+ email addresses for our alpha page and b) selling out all of our initial classes ( 3 per month for 3 months). We didn’t want to spend too much money on the idea so we set an overall budget of $5K.

I bought the URL and hired Ed Nacional to design the brand identity around Skillshare. From there, we put up the “alpha” version of Skillshare, which took less than a day as it was HTML/CSS. We used Campaign Monitor to capture email addresses and Eventbrite to power all of the ticket purchases. I taught the first Skillshare class around poker, which you can still view on Eventbrite. We needed some marketing juice so I wrote a controversial article on “Why College is Overrated” for GOOD Magazine and we put up a Kickstarter project around the same topic.

We ended up getting over 5K+ email addresses from folks that signed up to be notified about Skillshare. All of the initial classes sold out (huge validation) and our Kickstarter project got fully funded. If you follow the lean startup methodology, you’ll know that most startups don’t fail because of the technology, they fail because they are solving a problem that no one cares about. Our goal at this stage was to see if anyone on this planet wanted Skillshare to exist. We passed that initial test, kept hitting our next milestones, closed a seed round led by Founder Collective, and launched a full beta site in early April.

This was a very long process for me. It didn’t happen overnight. If Biology 101 is the weed-out classes for doctors in college, launching your startup idea weeds out the majority of new and aspiring entrepreneurs. I failed over and over, but as long as you make the best decisions and take calculated risks, you can successfully launch your idea and make the world a better place!

Michael Karnjanaprakorn is the CEO/co-founder of Skillshare. You can follow him on Twitter and take his class on ”How to Launch Your Startup Idea” through Skillshare.

If you love their project as much as we do, check out their fundraiser page (with a wonderfully hilarious video!!), which allows them to pay the cost of this project and also continue them in the future. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playlab/playlabs-peep-show.

Check out the Peep Show http://www.playlab.org/peepshow/

Keep up the great work guys!

Two weeks ago we spent 2.5 inspiring days with 18 amazing Sandboxers from around the world in a gorgeous house in the woods of Pennsylvania, hanging out and talking about the future.

As always at Sandbox, it’s all about the people you meet and the things you create together. We invested a lot of energy to not only bring together a group of young movers & shakers, but to select them from as many backgrounds as possible. Among the participants were a designer, a video producer, several social entrepreneurs, two fashion entrepreneurs, a student, an investment banker, a TV producer, a digital strategist, a teacher, a consultant and several entrepreneurs working on various startups. Imagine 2.5 days with these people, full of brainstorming, cooking, best practice exchange, midnight PowerPoint Karaoke sessions, BBQ at the lake, walls filled with new ideas and offline tweeting (there was no internet, to fully de-connect, however, there was an offline tweet wall for the super addicted .

We talked about our biggest accomplishments and our biggest fears. We tried to find out how other people deal with days that only have 24 hours, we exchanged books we love and created the “Venture Spa” where all members collectively analyze one person’s biggest challenge and help her and him with advice, contacts, ideas and man power. Together we incubated ideas and built friendships.

Every time I meet fellow Sandboxers anywhere in the world, I gain inspiration and motivation from their drive and passion. But spending 2.5 intimate days with this group took this to a whole new level. Anyone who is pessimistic about our generation should come, spend a weekend with us and see the creative and productive dynamic that these young leaders have. Many more Sandbox retreats to come

Check out more photos from the retreat and many thanks to Niamh and Paul for the whole organization.

At Sandbox we’re fortunate to interact every day with some of the most inspiring young innovators around the world. Our members are constantly driving new ideas and exploring untouched opportunities. Observing patterns within our community and studying trends of our clients, we identified six major themes to watch out for in 2010 and beyond:

1. Unique and Genuine Corporate Cultures

Many young people today are afraid of becoming “corporate slaves” limited to standardized work without any meaning. To be successful, companies increasingly don’t only have to be efficient, but must also create genuine corporate cultures that attract and retain employees, customers and shareholders.
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2. Create Meaningful Relationships

Being connected to others is crucial to our personal and collective success. The evolving “social web” phenomenon has made these interactions easier. In turn, creating and sustaining meaningful relationships will become even more important and valuable.
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3. Hippies 2.0: Do What You Love and Get Paid for It

More than ever, young people have a strong desire to do something meaningful in their lives. We see twenty-five year olds having their “quarter-life crisis” and asking themselves about their purpose in life and how it impacts society. This new “passion generation”, as we call it, mixes their drive for meaningful impact with another old concept: capitalism.
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4. Linking Data to Objects

The term “augmented reality” has been around for some time. It describes technologies and processes that add digital data to real-world objects and places. Now, finally, we think that all the pieces are in place for these technologies to spread widely, become more developed, and dramatically alter our lives.
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5. Social Business Design

The internet is more than a tool, it is an evolving user-powered organism that creates and manages vast information. The trends seen in the evolution of the internet can be leveraged by organizations and translated into new structures, processes, business models and cultures. “Social Business Design” makes organizations more agile, more connected and more transparent.
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6. Emplotment: The Skill of Making Sense of Stuff

Historically, the most natural form of communication is story telling. Then came the ideals of rationality and objectiveness and banned stories to the realms of fiction. Today, we experience information overload. As the vastness of data around us increases, the value of storytelling multiplies.
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In many ways, the six themes overlap and share the following properties:

• Emotional Innovation: In pursuit of happiness, we are creating innovative living and working spaces that give sense of purpose and reflect our passions. We also had intense discussions about this topic at the recent Palomar5 summit in Berlin.
• Blending Virtual and Physical: Technology is no longer just an instrument, it is deeply integrated into the heart of society, amplifying the individual voice and shifting social dynamics.
• Social Everything: The internet was the start, but today everything is connected through the social web, from organizational structures, corporate cultures, product development, marketing, problem solving, and the human experience.

We would love to hear from you: What do you think of these topics? What are your big trends for this year? Let us know in the comments!

This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October – 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag #p5 for real-time updates. You can also check out one of our camp member’s daily video blog on Youtube. (Part 1 is here)

By Max Marmer

Two Thirds of the Palomar5 Innovation Camp has already passed. Four weeks down, two to go until the 2 day Summit, when we will have the opportunity to present the fruits of our labour to an eminent group of thought leaders, politicians, scientists and investors.

Before we dive deep into the Palomar5 experience let me give you a quick overview of the last month:

Our first two weeks, focused on understanding the thought landscape we’re operating in, generating hundreds of ideas for projects mixed in with some intense bonding experiences. Two weeks of intensive prototyping ensued, and now we’re transitioning into storytelling mode for the summit.

The last 4 weeks have been amazing but I was hoping to get more done. But that’s probably just my restlessness to change the world talking. But it is strange how fast a month has flown by.

We had our second “reality check” yesterday, where we all presented what we’ve been working on to many highly respected professionals and received their feedback. Someone asked me how long ago the first reality check was, it felt like ages, a month at least, but in reality it was only two and half weeks.

As a rule of thumb, if you’re trying to describe a prolonged experience and it feels like time has passed incredibly quickly but when you reflect on things you did in the beginning and it feels like it happened a long time ago, it probably means you are doing something right.

The Final Stretch

I have spent a lot of time the last few years learning about frameworks that have supported me in developing visions for a better future, but it has taken time for my entrepreneurial skills to catch up to the size of what I’ve set out to accomplish. The last half a year I’ve become increasingly anxious about pontificating while building takes a back seat. With only two weeks left of the camp part of me wishes more had been accomplished while here. But I have to realize that while we’ve been here a month, real work only started two weeks ago and our last two weeks of focus have been incredibly productive. The end goal of the Palomar5 camp is not to create fully functional products for the summit. Of greater importance to Palomar5 is conveying the underlying vision behind our projects and validation of the experiment of bringing 30 diversely talented young people from around the world and forcing them to live and work together for 6 weeks. Fully functional projects that make an impact are definitely vital for the success of Palomar5, but we don’t want to be another idea factory producing theories and patents; we want our projects to make a mark on the world, but the purpose of the 6 week camp is just to create the gravitational core for these projects to continue to flourish once the camp is over.

The summit should play a huge role in jumpstarting this process, but it all depends on the quality of our storytelling and how well we convey the enveloping experience of Palomar5: the lifestyle, the passion, the big projects and all the little creative projects the flit in and out serving as creative fuel for our bigger initiatives. If we do this well, TED-esque as we all like to say, (it being our common inspiration and the height of sexy intellectualism), we’ll create a buzz around the camp that will accelerate the development of our projects.

The Malzfabrik and Beyond

While we’ve spent most of our days in our stylish cubes dreaming up the next big thing followed by nightly recharges in our sleeping boxes, the weeks have not been without some atypical extracurricular activity.

After an intense first three weeks the Palomar5 team announced a mysterious weekend trip with few details except that we were supposed to bring our passport and pack warm. We speculated about trips to Poland or Holland.

On Halloween morning we piled on our bus unsure of our intended destination. A few hours later we found ourselves at the beginning of 8 kilometer canoeing expedition down a river somewhere in northeast Germany. We exited our canoes 3 hours later to find ourselves on the outskirts of a sparsely populated town with a nearby castle awaiting our presence. In the evening our creativity was out in full bloom as we showed off our elaborate characters including killer Mario, the bloody nurse and cross-dressing men.

Our favorite part of the weekend getaway at the castle was the sauna buried in the basement with plenty of half naked sandboxers to go around. We now request saunas wherever we go.

Other highlights included a Sunday afternoon project constructing an 8 meter mask out of branches and twigs, which was burned in it the evening. And I enjoyed my longest period of silence in a while during a solitary forest walk.

Atmosphere

Earlier this week we attended the ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On our walk back we noticed how this experience felt like the beginning of a new school. We’ve been living together for a month now and it feels like this is just the beginning of a new phase of our lives, which it is, but at the same time our concentrated camp experience is heading into the final stretch. The flight home will be very strange. The following weeks we’ll experience withdrawals as we return to reality, basically from the future. While we’ve been working on inventing the future of work, we’ve also been living it. This experience has seamlessly combined, friendship, fun, adventure and the birth of some really ambitious projects.

One thing I might change if I knew this could last beyond 6 weeks is not working as many hours during the day, I feel like life is cyclical, times where intense focus is required and other times where experimentalism is a better frame of mind. Making the most of my time here has been a higher priority for me. Trying to change the world takes sacrifice; again my restlessness talking.

How we maintain the community after the camp is an issue that looms large in all our heads, both for the continued success of our projects and the friendships we’ve built.

No matter what happens I think we can all say that the camp has inextricably altered our lives. And we’ll look back on our lives in a few years time categorizing our experiences with two denominations: BP and AP. Before Palomar5 and After Palomar5.

The pace of learning at this camp has been so high. I’ve often thought about what kind of person I’d become if every night I could go to bed completely mentally exhausted from the pushing my 3 pounds of grey matter continually past its limits. Palomar5 has given me four weeks of that dream. Everyday we discuss wide-ranging ideas, on many topics like learning, innovation, and culture.

One night Valentin and I were up late debating whether culture or technology was the stronger force driving society forward. While interesting, these conversations rarely lead to anything tangible, but Palomar5 begs to differ. The following day we were discussing how the iPhone achieved widespread cultural adoption so fast with technology so far ahead of what was previously available (normally a sticking point for products ahead of their time) and how our projects could succeed by similarly speeding up cultural adoption. The conversation immediately jumped to a new level as we drew on last night’s debate. Something in both our minds then clicked, “Wow that’s a first! Last night’s debate was enjoyable, but I never thought it would actually be productive.”

What We’ve Been Building At Palomar5

The theme of the camp of was the future of work, but that was just a starting point to sell the project. We’ve been given very little structure, and that’s the way like it. Lack of direction does not mean chaos, at least over the long term, our projects have naturally converged around big themes: Social consciousness, data and entrepreneurship.

These are incredibly important areas where a lot of growth will be made, and it’s even more notable that we were not told to pick 3 these topics, but our internal compasses driven by creative destruction, cycling through hundreds of projects over the last 4 weeks, led us here.

Our vision for redesigning society for digital age and generation is now more palpable with these themes guiding us. What’s notable is that while many of dreamed of redesigning society this kind of re-envisioning around our idyllic yearnings hasn’t always been possible. The industrial era required sacrificing creativity in the name of scalable efficiency, which was necessary to create the infrastructure to raise the quality of life to what is today. But while this era is long past its expiration date, it continues to live on like an infectious bacteria, contaminating our work and lives. So many of us realize it’s time to reinvent society and its organizations from the ground up, we now just need to commit to making it happen. Count Palomar5 in.

Magnifying Glass — Palomar5 Project Sneak Peak

Here’s a sneak peak into the vision of the project I’ve been most intensely involved in:

We’re postulating the future of work is going to have a lot more startups, because that’s where all the innovation is coming from.

The startup accelerator model is a big part of the future innovation landscape, think YCombinator, Techstars, Seedcamp, and now there are accelerators for more than web startups, using basically the same model like Palomar5 and the Unreasonable Institute. We think we’ll see a lot more of these.

The rise of accelerators means that there are now two big emerging markets: Pre and post accelerators.

We’re trying to build many of the tools needed to support startups post-accelerator: expert feedback systems, social network amplification in order to get connected to the right people, just in time learning to acquire skills to overcome new challenges, and repositories of best practices and eventually developing some kind of recommendation engine to streamline and automate the whole ecosystem.

Also, while startups are more innovative because they have freedom, flexibility and autonomy corporations still possess advantages of scale and greater resources.

Startups need to achieve advantages of scale as well, but they will be able to do this modularly and collaboratively. Currently large organizations are organized like big towers, even Google operates like this. But startups will be able to achieve scale and preserve their autonomy by acting like lego pieces. Currently, startups don’t have lego functionality, they’re just rectangular blocks that don’t interface well with each other but we’re providing the knobs and the holes to assemble large towers for particular projects that can easily dissemble at the conclusion of the project and build a new tower.

The prototype for our skill acquisition platform for entrepreneurs has recently been launched. Currently we’re only offering it to alumni of startup accelerators. http://forceforthefuture.com/founders-first/

Conclusion

There’s a lot of uncertainty in many of our lives now, but I love it. Many of us have nothing to go back to, no work to return to, just the opportunity to take the projects and relationships built over the 6 weeks as springboard for the next few years of our lives. It’s easy to get scared by the uncertainty, I still fall victim to it from time to time, but I know it’s really just a sign I’m taking good risks. While it’s comforting to know what life has in store, the predictability is antithetical to impact and growth.

A few nights ago Eddie (Harran) was hopping around in the cube with typical exuberance saying, “I wish could just work with you guys for the rest of my life” “What’s stopping you?” “Well, nothing!”

Inspirations we came across this week

10 Things Most MBA Schools Won’t Teach You About Startups

The Tetuan Valley Manifesto, founded by Sandboxer Alex Barrera in Spain to unite extraordinary young individuals to make a change (something we can relate to a lot, great stuff!)

Introvert to Extrovert : 4 Ways to Take Control of Your Shyness.

Healthy, Wealthy, and DEAD?: 5 Reasons Why Getting Up Early Might be Harmful, sleep plays an important role in my life, I love it, but at the same time it takes me away from creating cool things (like Sandbox…). I’ve been trying to make it to the office earlier (not very successful so far…), but maybe I should enjoy those few more minutes in bed, what do you think?

Mind Frenzy.com, I was inspired by Jared O’Toole blog and hope to gain him and his co-founder Matt Wilson as members for Sandbox soon They’re doing a cool venture in the US Under 30 CEO “Leading Gen Y to stop doing shit they hate!” Keep doing the great work and let’s talk soon how we can work together!

7 habits of highly successful GenY entrepreneurs, provided by “Generation Y Startup” in the US. Would love to talk to you guys!

Exciting marketing approach, The CMO of BestBuy asking their community to develop a job description

Chewing Gum Sculptures

Thinking Space, nice campaign from the Economist to show the work and think spaces of some very inspiring individuals.

TEDGlobal 2009 Our Advisory Board member Bruno Guissani is hosting the next TEDGlobal event coming up in Oxford and just released the final program. The title: The Substance of Things Not Seen. We should organize TED junior with all the Sandboxers, that could rock, no?!

Michael Jackson Tribute – Stockholm. July 8, 2009, Amazing flashmob

Eternal moonwalk, a global tribute to the genius of Michael Jackson

People we started following on Twitter:

Jared O’Toole

Matt Wilson

Hansueli Märki our advisory board member. We don’t know about any global top executives who are so up to date with new technologies as Hansueli. But as former IBM Chairman he is used to see technology changing all the time.

is this helpful / valuable? let us know and be inspired!

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 on this blog.

I wanted to share my presentation with everyone (find it here) (made with the great technology of Zuiprezi, Budapest, Hungary, many thanks for your support!) and also include selected background links which have inspired me. I’m very curious to hear what people think and would love to get feedback and suggestions for improvements for the next time.

Many thanks and congratulations to the organizers for their great work!

Selected background information & sources of inspiration

About Gen Y & Entrepreneurship

Ryan Allis, an extraordinary young American serial entrepreneur: “The Potential of the third generation of Tech Entrepreneurs“, “The opportunity of our lifetimes“, and “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur”

ReadWriteWeb articles, a technology blog with great insights into Gen Y and business: “Welcome to the world of Gen Y“, “Why Gen Y is going to change the Web“, and “Entreprise 2.0”

About Gen Y in business

- Naked Generations, London based Gen Y consultancy by our friend and Sandboxer Christopher Lomas.

- Forrester research on new generation workforce, good insights from the HR perspective

- Generation C(ASH), insights by Trendwatch about Gen Y from a marketing / sales perspective.

Inspiring young Gen Y companies

- Kusiri, London based Entreprise 2.0 technology company, by Sandboxer Andrew Fogg, bringing Web2.0 technologies into corporates.

- Gen Y Innovation catalyst Play&Build Berlin, Germany, the new form of incubating from our friends & Sandbox supporters Hans Raffauf & Mathias Holzmann.

Additional, random sources of inspiration

Incubaker, a young fast prototyping innovation company, New York & San Francisco, US, by our friends and Sandboxers Dave Radparvar & Co.

http://gee.ky, Blog, by San Francisco based Sandboxer Melissa Sconyers

Great Gen Y Bibliography

“Six degrees of seperation is now three”

A new kind of venture capitalist, NY Times article about Union Ventures