Entrepreneur Lessons From Outside the Valley: Lesson #2 Know Your (Geographic) Advantage

WHAT: Know your geographic advantage.
Sandbox is an offline social and professional network of “extraordinary achievers under 30.” Sandbox is also a for-profit company currently in the process of filing for incorporation under Swiss law.
How does a company make money from being a “network of extraordinary achievers?”
Here’s Sandbox they stacked up in terms of geographic [...]

Entrepreneur Lessons From Outside the Valley: Lesson #1 Net-WORK it!

WHAT: Be a really good networker.

Unless you plan to start a business sending mail bombs to people, you’ll need lots of company – partners, advisers, colleagues, and customers.
Antoine grew Sandbox from a spark he saw in one of his earliest network-building experiences:
“The first time I realized the power of networks was when I was 16. [...]

DO THESE THINGS. Entrepreneur Lessons From Outside the Valley

Silicon Valley-ites are not the only people in the world who know cutting-edge media entrepreneurship. Why, then, do we have such center-of-the-universe attitude about the Valley that’s rivaled only by NYC and its frighteningly die-hard residents (friends in New York, I love you)?
What do you do if you want to be an entrepreneur on [...]