Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: December 2008
This has been around in blogs a couple of weeks now, and I feel that it also should belong here There are times, when you have to let go some of your employees. And not because they underperform, but because you, i.e. our company underperforms and you just cannot afford to pay them anymore.
That [...]
Affiliate Business Models are one of the major approaches in the Internet to monetarize eyeballs on the website. Katja von der Burg and Patrick Hundt explain in this German article what different types of affiliate models exist and give examples for illustration (via Gruenderszene)
HHL venture flymedic of Florian Jäger and his colleagues closes another financing round and gains Madsack Medialab as a new investor. With the help of Madsack Medialab flymedic amplifies its internationalization strategy. You can find more information on the medical tourism platform flymedic under http://www.flymedic.com [...]
HHL-startup travel portal trivago from was awarded a "website of the year" award from the voting platform "website of the year" (hm, guess what they do on that website) in the category travel for several countries: UK, France, Italy and Spain
HHL-alumnus Marcel Radzei secured a strategic investment for his company bookandsmile with its main offering billigflieger.de, the premier German meta search for flights.
Investor is media-player Bauer Verlag, one of the major German media companies. With this partnership, billigflieger.de is one of the first investments of [...]
Gründerszene interviewed Jörg Rheinboldt, Co-founder and former Managing Director of ebay Germany and today active with an own investment firm M10 as well as a social entrepreneurship project betterplace.
Jörg visited the HHL-Unternehmer-Stammtisch in August to present the international Entrepreneurs Organisation and to discuss with [...]
We are living in exponential times. That is one of the main messages of this really cool video. It provides you with amazing, sometimes puzzling and worrying statistics. Food for thought in any case.
Another piece of news on lecturio: In times of a global financial crisis, the founders of Lecturio, HHL-alumni Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte, just announced the successful closing of a seed-financing round. Investor is the TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen together with the investment arm S-Beteiligungen of
There is a new kid in startup-town: 2 recent graduates of HHL, Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte, just started up their own business. With lecturio they aim on revolutionizing the online education market.
Basically what they do is to provide online-lectures by filming Professors in action. [...]
The Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation (CLIC, official website and overview) is looking for two research assistants/ Ph.D.-students. If you are interested, check out the job description and/or contact me directly or the executive director of CLIC, Marcus Kölling.
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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.
