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From the monthly archives: February 2008
shopping.de-Domain aquired by unister.de for rumoured 1.5 Mio Euro: Unister.de, the Leipzig company co-founded by HHL-Alumnus Daniel Kirchof, closed another interesting deal. After already being the owner of such mass-market domains like www.auto.de, www.geld.de etc., they succeeeded in getting the domain www.schopping.de. Details of the deal, which [...]
Interesting Links: Team Search: http://jobs.easn.de/: Looking for co-founders? Check here! Web2.0 law: Wth user-generated abundant via youtube etc. the question of copyright becomes a critical issues also for private website owners. At www.rechtzweinull.de you can get more information on copyright issues in the internet and what you have to consider before [...]
Investors favour medtech startups: Gründerraum has an update on a study the German Business Angel association recently conducted in investment activities in Germany. Key findings: the past year has been great both for startups looking for money and for investors selling-off their stakes. But the climate is getting [...]
Are you an entrepreneur?: At förderland they write about www.marktstart-tagebuch.de, an online project which aims on building up a handbook on how to start up ad run a fast-growing company. Persistance is important: Those of you who have attended Peter Kestings entrepreneurship class know that persistence is a very important entrepreneurial [...]
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management and the TRM – Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Leipzig University
cordially invite you to an
Entrepreneurship-Roundtable
with Dr. Andreas Emmendörffer
Managing Director euroderm GmbH
on 6. March 2008, from 16:30 – 18:00,
at HHL, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig,
followed by an informal reception
[...]
The stats are in! Recently we conducted a survey with the HHL-Entrepreneurs to gather some information on the impact they have.
Some of the key findings are:
- Over 40 companies founded
- Over 1.000 jobs created
- Over xx million Euro revenue (nope, won´t tell you, promised this
Additionally our alumni are active [...]
Upcoming Events: -26. February:
Registration Deadline for Business Plan Competition futuresax Phase II: http://www.futuresax.de/ -29. February: Registration Deadline for European Young Entrepreneurs Award on March 18/19: http://www.innovact.com/-Innovact,65- -1. March: Start of Business Plan Competition MedTech/ Medical Industry: http://www.startbahn-ruhr.de/cms2/index.php?id=home -6. March 2008: Entrepreneurship Roundtable at HHL, Registration [...]
HHL-Alumnus Malte Siewert from hotel portal trivago takes part in an onlnie-elevator pitch of "The Guardian" online. Nice Sum-Up of their business model
Trivago, the online-travel startup and hotel review community from HHL-alumni Rolf Schrömgens, Peter Vinnemeier and Malte Siewert offers a new functionality. Since recently, hotel owners cannot only read the reviews their guests left about them, but they have now the possibility to actively present themselves and react to the positive and negative [...]
When you are thinking about starting up an Internet-business, you are most likely also thinking about means to promote your web page. One of the most useful tools is SEO – Search Engine Optimization, basically all means that are targeted on becoming the preffered search result displayed at google, yahoo etc.
If you ever wondered [...]
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Welcome to the blog on Entrepreneurship@HHL. This is a news collection about startups from HHL, entrepreneurial activities at the school and genereal tidbits which might be of interest for founders.
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Did you know?
In its "European Business Schools 2009" ranking the Financial Times ranked HHL's full-time MBA Program No. 1 in Germany and No. 34 in Europe.
HHL graduates have also started over 120 businesses! They have been financed by Earlybird, Apax, Grazia Equity, Wellington, Holtzbrinck and many others.
Earned recognitions include the Wirtschaftswoche Startup of the year, KfW-Gründerchampion, Weconomy winner, Venture Lounge winner, RedHerring Top 100 winner.
