Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: January 2009
Micro-lending service Smava, where HHL alumnus Sebastian Rieschel is a co-founder, announced the opening of a polish offering. After having secured an additional roud of financing last year the team of smava is now putting the mones to use to capture new markets. More info here.
HHL almunus Jochen Klueppel, a general partner at Venture Capital firm Grazia Equity, recently invested into the German Startup of the year statista.de. Statista is a web service that collects and syynthesizes statistics and other data into a usble format. More information on the deal
Web-ideas posted a collection of 42 useful free e-books that every startup can (and very often should) use if it plans to be successful with Social Media Marketing. Topics covered include Essentials Guides, Manuals for Social Media, Viral Marketing, E-Mail, Podcasting, Usability etc.
Sascha Langner posted an essay on Gründerzene on successful PR for Startups. The guide includes not only useful how-tos, but also provides the necessary links and starting points for startups engaging into PR. More information and the full article here.
Förderland has a nice collection of reasons why founders regularely fail:
no idea of business administration absolute megalomania (yes, i had to look this word up) rather than realism to much emphasis on work-life balance (at least in the beginning get used to all-nighters) missing market analysis no understanding of the target group [...]
HHL alumnus Daniel Gollmann developed the idea for his successful business while at HHL. His efforts and innovative business idea were recognized with the "KfW Gründerchampion 2008" award, one of the most prestiguous prices in Germany.
Now a new round for the Gründerchampion started, everybody is able to [...]
Foerderland collected a summary of the most important facts that entrepreneurs need to know about the new GmbH-reform. More information here.
As Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports, a survey among over 140 experts from the German media landscape showed, that the majority expects increasing investments in new media concepts in the next year. The survey was conducted by Burda Research & Development in preparation of the upcoming dld fair. More info here.
Pennergame is one of the leading online gaming sites in Germany, with over 1 million users and 1.5 million visits a day (!). Alexander from deutsche-startups.de just informed about another financing round that pennergame.de closed.
Sven Schmidt and Daniel Grözinger, both HHL alumni and serial entrepreneurs, invested [...]
Johannes Grassmann achieved to become FTD-Financial Times Germany Startup of the week with his company verkehrsmittelvergleich.de. To help him to become Startup of the month with a print-feature in FTD, please vote here. M And he even managed to become startup of the month now. More information also here.
Welcome
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.
Feel free to contact me for your feedback.
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.
