Archive for the tag: "switzerland"
Launching the Sandbox Summer Dialogues
From a recent Sandbox event in Berlin hosted by our Ambassador Rainer Scheerer, also author of the Sandbox podcasts. As many of you probably have already heard, we have started in addition to our monthly (and often even more frequent!) events in 25 cities across the globe organizing small and intimate dinners / breakfasts / [...]
Meet a Sandboxer: David Bauer
David Bauer (27) is a journalist based in Basel, Switzerland. He holds a BA in English and Business from the University of Basel (although he spent most of his time studying philosophy) and a MA in Journalism from the University of Hamburg. People tell him he is pretty decent at putting words in the correct [...]
From the Sandbox: Jumping off the Cliff
Every day, our community manager Katrin Winiarski, reads through her feed of all Sandboxers’ blog posts. Every Thursday, she chooses the most inspiring, funny or brilliant one and reposts it on this blog. This post has been written by Sandboxer Marcus Kuhn. The original version can be found here. I have done it, instead of [...]
Sandbox CEO named among top 100 Swiss personalities
Taking the idea of the Time 100 list locally, the Swiss magazine L’Hebdo publishes every year a list of the 100 people who – through their actions and their visions – contributed most to the dynamism of Switzerland’s French-speaking part. Sandbox CEO Antoine Verdon has been named yesterday in the 2010 list under the category “Eminence [...]
MEET A SANDBOXER: PETER VOGEL
Peter Vogel is a 25 year old Austrian‐American who grew up in Germany most of the time. In 2000, he developed his passion for entrepreneurship when he co-founded the lifestyle magazine re.flect for the lake of Constance region. Before moving to Zurich in 2004 for his engineering studies at the ETH Zurich, he travelled for [...]
The visit to Googleland
Remember these childhood dreams, where you imagined that you would once work in a place that consists entirely of chocolate and where you could just indulge in sweets all day, maybe taking a nap in between? Well, as you probably have realized until now, this place doesn’t exist. But: The Google offices in Zurich come quite close.
The conference that comes to you
As we were developing the concept for Sandbox, we talked a lot about how to bring the young talents together. Should we just create a social network and let them talk online – or should we organize a conference that unites them all in one place? We eventually decided to do both, because we believe [...]
