HHL - die Unternehmer-Hochschule

Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and business builder Oliver Samwer talks about how to best prepare for the decision to become an entrepreneur. Very good stuff.

HHL alumnus Gregor Dorsch has already won several awards for his company Syntops. Just recently they launched their newest product: PersonalNews, a customizable newspaper for end consumers. Basically you pick-and-coose the topics you are interested in, syntops aggregates the respective articles from several partners and delivers your very own personal newspaper to you. More info here and here and here.

HHL alumnus Sandro Günther won 3rd plase in the LIFE competition from the Leipzig entrepreneurship initiative Smile. Sandro convinced the jury with his business idea on awibra - a B2B service for optimizing routine sourcing tasks. Congratulations. Read more here.

Online behemoth unister.de, where HHL alumnus Daniel Kirchof is the Head of Finance, recently informed about the successful implementation of their latest offering partnersuche.de. Apparently they get several thousand new users each week - an impressive performance in the rivalry-ridden market for online partner search. Read more here and here.

The doctor search of health portal imedo.de from HHL alumnus Christian Angele now in integrated in over 88 other websites. The most recent addition is on Wirtschaftswoche online. Read more here.

HHL alumnus Malte Paul, founder of online gaming portal playnik, was interviewed by venture.tv on his business idea.

HHL alumnus Sven Schmidt, who founded several companies together with Daniel Grözinger (including dealjäger.de and verwandt.de), gave an interesting interview to venture.tv on entrepreneurship in general and their new project auskunft.de.

Luxury good rental platform fashionette from HHL alumni Sebastian Siebert and Ronald Reschke got a feature on their founding story in Leipziger Volkszeitung and one in Superillu.

Diploma student Lucretia Löscher won the second prize in the Vestas Winnovation Challenge 2009. More information here.

HHL MBA ranked #1 in Germany, #34 in Europe by Financial Times. How cool is that!!!  http://tweet.ms/Dw, http://tweet.ms/DW

With his start-up mellowball, HHL alumnus Sebastian Hettlage offers the first platform for "surprise shopping". On a daily basis you can "shake the mellowball" and are presented with favourable product offerings from fashion design, IT, travel, lifestlye and entertainment. Read more here and here.

HHL alumnus Sebastian Siebert went online with his new service Fashionette, a luxury accessoire leasing portal ("rent a Gucci" - you get the point). Fashionette is a brand of Luxury Fashion Trade GmbH where Sebastian is a co-founder. With Roland Reschke, by now also another HHL alumnus has joined Fashionette as managing director. Read more here and here and here

On November 12, over 50 participants koined up at HHL to discuss with serial entrepreneur Dr. Andreas Emmendoerffer during an Entrepreneurship Roundtable at HHL.

Organized jointly with the TRM institute from Leipzig University and HHL Executive Education, this event brought together HHL students with researchers and founders from the medical and biotech sector. During the presentation and the following meet and greet many new contacts between the management and research world were established. Maybe we will see another success like with the last roundtable where HHL students teamed up with a medical researcher to build up a company together. Read more here.

On October 31 the 2nd generation of the EO Accelerator program started in Berlin. Goal of the exclusive high potential program is to support start-ups to gain the abilities to push their annual revenue beyond the "magic threshold" of 1,000,000 $. This is done by a series of workshops, networking with successful entrepreneurs and coaching through the experiences of other growth companies.

The EO Accelerator program, which has been offered in the US for quite some time already, was introduced to Germany from HHL-alumna Julia Derndinger (president of the German chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization) in 2008 and is supported by Mercedes-Benz Bank. The acceptance process is highly competitive - and again several HHL alumni made it into the program: Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte with e-lecture portal lecturio and Malte Paul with his online gaming start-up playnik.com and Sebastian Siebert with accessoire leasing firm fashionette. In the last year, HHL alumni Dirk Graber with online optician Misterspex and Christian Angele with his health portal imedo.de also had the opportunity to participate in the program. Read more here and here and here.