Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: May 2009
HHL-alumnus Daniel Kirchhof was featured as co-founder of Unister.de, one of the German online-conglomerates. The story nicely shows the starting and growth of Unister (today active with e.g. news.de, geld.de, reisen.de, auto.de, versicherungen.de and others) into a 350-employee business based in [...]
HHL-Alumnus Stefan Bielau succeeded in closing the second financing round for his startup dailyme.tv. Besides the first-round investors bmp Media investors and IBB Berlin, this time also KfW ERP Startfonds invested in the company.
Impressed by the early prrof-of-concept of dailyme.tv, the investors now [...]
Thanks to Stefan Smalla I found this VC-Termsheet generator. Seems to be a really helpful tool for everybody looking for VC-financing or considering doing investments. This service is provided by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Of course, this can only give you indications – any factual contract will [...]
HHL-alumnus Sebastian Rieschel and is co-founders from peer-to-peer credit service smava.de are featured in this story at Gruenderszene.
As the intro says: "Von Der Geschichte des jungen Unternehmens kann man einmal mehr lernen, dass es auf Sicherheit und Transparenz im Internet ankommt und dass eine intensive Planung zumeist unerlässlich ist, [...]
The guys from Gruenderszene have a useful editorial on legal forms for young and growing companies. In the first part they look at the differences of the GMBH (limited liability company) and the UG (really pretty much the same, but for smaller firms): Rechtsformen für StartUps I: UG vs. GmbH – Was kann [...]
HHL-graduates Alexander Hiller and Justus von Grone managed to get a funding from the government-related EXIST-Gründerstipendium. This will enable them to work one year on their new business idea, a semantic shopping engine.
After Mario Körösi who got the funding earlier this year for his business
Performance Media, the startup founded by HHL-alumnus Christoph Schäfer, opened up a new business line with Performance Advertising, an offer focusing on the marketing of picture-text-kombinations.
Christoph, who also was a co-founder of tocketing-service Getgo, enters the market not totally unprepared but already features an [...]
On May 7, the HHL-Unternehmerstammtisch met again, this time in Leipzig.
The Unternehmerstammtisch is a regular meeting of HHL-entrepreneurs, where they get together every 3-4 months in various locations in Germany to discuss current business problems. The setup is like a workshop with external speakers, an impulse presentation on a predefined focus topic and [...]
Mini-Seedcamp, an event where startups and investors are brought together to network, will be held in Berlin on June 9. In total 20 selected founder teams will meet over 50 experienced entrepreneurs and investors, including Saul Klein (Index Ventures), Oliver Beste (Founders Link), HHL-alumnus Lukasz [...]
In this German article on Welt.de the impact of the financial crisis on the recently emerging peer-to-peer credit market is evaluated. Interesting read, citing also smava - the player co-founded by HHL-alumnus Sebastian Rieschel.
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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.
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