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From the monthly archives: February 2009
Again in 2009 HHL awards the HHL entrepreneurship award "ready for business" in cooperation with futuresax business plan competition.
This annual award is given to the most promising startups or early entrepreneurs that still need some management competencies. The winner gets a scholarship from HHL to take part [...]
Spreadshirt, the company founded by HHL-alumnus Lukasz Gadowski, secured a financing round of 10. Mio Euro from Venture Capitalists Kennet Partners and Accel Partners. Read more about the deal here and here and here and here.
HHL almunus Jochen Klueppel, a general partner at Venture Capital firm Grazia Equity, has been active in our business plan seminar for over six years already (aka The Grazia Equity Business Plan Competition @ HHL) and provided guidance and advice to numerous founder teams already. Now he also started [...]
Leipzig based internet portal unister.de, where HHL-alumnus Daniel Kirchhof is responsible for all financial matters, has recently invested in travel portal travel24.com. This complements the other successful activities of unister like ab-in-den-urlaub.de, fluege.de, hotelreservierung.de and others. Read more about the deal here and about [...]
Katja von der Burg und Patrick Hundt have posted a very informative article (in German) at Gruenderszene on how to choose the right afiliate network for the own business, including a short overview on all of the major German networks. Read the full article here.
Deutsche-Startups.de has visited the founder team aroung Christian Angele from HHL in their imedo.de offices in Berlin. Really nice location, as I know from several visits to Berlin (e.g. we met in the imedo offices with our first "Unternehmerstammtisch" last year). More info and pictures from the visit here.
Startup Camp in Cologne awaits over 200 participants from the entrepreneurial scene. The event takes place on March 6, 2009. More information here.
On March 14 there is an interesting event in Munich for those of you interested in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Munich Venture Summit, organized by Munich Business School.
Speakers at that event will be: Ehssan Dariani, Felix Haas, Jürgen Habichler, Olaf Jacobi, Oliver Jung, Alexander Kolisch, David Kuczek, Christoph Lienke, Harlad Ostermann, Peter Schüpbach, [...]
Very interesting video from Stanford about what business angels are and how you work together with them, I stumbled over it via Kolja Hebenstreit.
Turi2tv has published a video interview with HHL alumnus Lukasz Gadowski. Check it out to learn more about his current activities.
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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.
