Archive for the tag: "startups"
Dare Blake to do something CRAZY for a good cause!
Sandboxer Blake Jennelle is raising money for Startup Corps, a remarkable program that brings real entrepreneurs into high schools. It’s not just teaching. These entrepreneurs coach students as they launch real businesses! Blake taught in this program himself, and claims it is one of the best things he has done this year. We really like [...]
Seedcamp Plays in the NYC Sandbox
What does Vincent, owner of New York pizza shop 11B Express, have in common with young entrepreneurs? Both go by the motto “If I don’t eat it, I don’t serve it.” This seemed to be the theme last night when NYC Sandbox Co-Ambassadors Niamh Hughes and Fabian Pfortmuller organized a 30+ guest Sandbox event with [...]
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 [...]
Launch of the Berlin community
Adrian Locher, Sandbox Ambassador to Berlin and co-founder of Smaboo, organised the first Dinner in the German capital last week in order to kick off the local community. We met at the Café am neuen See, a place known for its good beer and for its delicious oversized pizzas. Many entrepreneurs attended the dinner, and [...]
Sandbox AG is born!
We are very proud to announce that Sandbox AG has been incorporated yesterday as a Swiss limited company, with the help of angel investors. This investment allows us to professionally manage the Sandbox network in the long term and to further develop services to members, as well as to external clients.
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 [...]
The upLIFTing dinner
When we attended the LIFT conference in Geneva for the first time last year, we immediately loved it. Laurent, Nicolas and their team are doing a great job in creating a nice atmosphere with inspiring content, where a very diverse crowd of super-interesting people meet. Thus, it was clear that the Sandbox team would be [...]
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.
HELLO SILICON VALLEY!
The UK editor of TechCrunch, maybe one of the most popular innovation and new technology blogs worldwide, comes to Zurich on July and we’re helping Domink from Wuala and his team to organize an informal networking event with 150 invited guests. We’re glad that we could convince Mike Butcher to make a stop in Switzerland [...]
