Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: October 2008
Venture Beat has been taking a closer look at the German startup scene. Interesting review with a short assessment of Germany-based companies doodle, plista, wuala, stupeflix and youcalc.
Unister, one of the most successful online-companies based in Leipzig (besides Spreadshirt) just launched their newest venture news.de in a beta version. With news.de the company, where HHL alumnus Daniel Kirchhof is the head of finance, aims on becoming a direct competitor to information behemoths spiegel.de,
TravelIQ, the travel startup from HHL-alumnus Konstantin Schlüter just relaunched its website. Apparently this is not only a beauty makeover, but usability and features have been improved as well.
Tough times seem to be ahead, and surely a question many a (potential) founder is asking herself: should I do it now, or wait for better times? Well, of course there is only one answer to this: it depends Anyway, Alley Insider is making some good points, why you should actually consider to start up [...]
HHL-Alumnus Lukasz Gadowski is not only a founder and investor (e.g. StudiVZ) but has become a real serial entrepreneur supporting young teams not only with money, but with advice, coaching and entrepreneurial engagement.
One of the new results is the company Käufertportal.de which aims on bringing [...]
Gründerideen für Business Plan Seminar gesuchtWie können wir helfen, tragfähige Geschäftsideen in Leipzig zu entwickeln?
Eine Antwort gibt nun die Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL). Ab Januar 2009 bietet die Leipziger Managerschmiede für gründungswillige Forscher aus der Region Leipzig einen einmaligen Service an. Im Rahmen des HHL Business Plan Seminars können sich Ideengeber um ein Team von [...]
Online-gaming site www.pennergame.de attracts more than 1 Mio. visitors a day, without any marketing. With these numbers, the site has established itself as one of the top 100 websites in Germany, (and also successfuly abroad: top 300 Austria, top 1000 Switzerland).
Honestly, I have never heard of the site before, but [...]
TU Munich, a partner University of HHL, recently had the Blackstone Co-Founder and CEO as a lecturer (Organized by Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Professor at KfW endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance). See the full video of his speech on Private Equity recent financial market turmoils etc.
Blackstone’s Stephen A. Schwarzman @ TU München from [...]
IdeaLab! is one of the premier Startup events in Germany, organized by Students of WHU. Unfortunately I did not have the chance to participate, but what I hear and read tells me, that IdeaLab! lived up to its reputation again. For information, presentations etc. from the event check Kolja and
I just spend a couple of days at the 2008 conference of the Strategic Management Society. One of the sessions I attended was "teaching entrepreneurship" with Jim Davis. Jim is the founder of the University of Notre Dame’s Entrepreneurship Center
The workshop included discussions with a variety of other scholars from [...]
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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.
