With the recent success of mymuesli.de, several new mass customization startups have been founded that try to harvest on the current trend for product/service personalization. Deutsche Startups provides a nice overview of the German players (text in German)
The posting is in German as it refers to a pure German website: Markt Start: Das Buch ist ein online-Buch, dass praxisorientiert Gründer an alle wichtigen Thematiken einer Unternehmensgründung heranführen soll. Auf der Website wird aber nicht nur das Buch entwickelt, sondern es werden zu den verschiedensten Themen auch (kurzweilige) Informationen in Form [...]
Only three months after Hitflip.de with the co-founder HHL-Alumnus Jan Miczaika decided to spin off Hitmeister.de, the new service already has 13 million DCDs, Games, Books etc online and thus has become the third largest offering for media online after E-Bay and Amazon. Kudos guys, good job. (for more background also [...]
Andreas von easn.de hat eine Buchbesprechung gepostet, auf die hin ich doch gleich mal wieder mein Amazon Konto bemühen muss.
The German Multimedia Award is being held for the 12th time this year. If you have a nomination for it, please tell them here until March 17.
Ernst & Young is looking for the German Entrepreneur of the year. In several categories companies with at least 40 employees headquartered in Germany can participate (exception for nominations in the Startup-category). For more information check here, or read the press release.
You have put up your accounts on xing, studivz, facebook and the like? You use blogs, comment functions and even newsgroups? Well then you should think twice what you put on the web, because in the Internet hardly anything is forgotten. Check for example this 10 year old advertisement
I put up [...]
A new format is being launched in Munich for founders and people interested in starting up their businesses. At Munich Online Network participation is free – and the first event planned for February 12. Check out more information here.
Thomas from the Webmaster-Blog pointed me to this interesting site: mydigimedia. It provides an overview of who belongs to whom in the Internet, e.g. Skype to ebay, Blogger to google etc.
Until Feb 15 nominations and applications can be made for the "Innovationspreis 2008". For more information check here.
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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.
