From the monthly archives: June 2009

Lecturio wins ugb award

On June 30, 2009 · In HHL entrepreneurs

E-lecture company Lecturio, founded by HHL-alumni Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte, won the ugb-founders award which they got at last weeks futuresax Phase III finals. More information here.

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10 reasons to apply for the Wirtschaftswoche-Gründerwettbewerb

On June 30, 2009 · In Events

Taken from Wirtschaftswoche:

Zehn Gründe, warum es sich zu bewerben lohnt:1. Viele Menschen in Deutschland haben eine gute Geschäftsidee, fürchten aber das Wagnis, zu gründen. Keine Sorge: Als Wettbewerbssieger erhalten Sie Unterstützung von sechs starken Partnern, die das Risiko reduzieren und Ihnen bei den nächsten Schritten helfen.

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Karsten Schroeder Interview on Bloomberg TV

On June 25, 2009 · In HHL entrepreneurs

HHL alumnus Karsten Schroeder, CEO of Amplitude Capital, has recently been interviewed by Bloomberg TV. See here for a full transcript of the discussion.

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But I do only need 1% of the market…..

On June 22, 2009 · In Know-how

One of the most common question founder teams address me with when discussing their ideas is, how they can estimate their target market size. Generally you can (in lack of any suitable public data) use guestimates and proxies to come up with a more or less reasonable number.

Method one is to go top-down, e.g. [...]

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What Guerilla Marketing is …

On June 22, 2009 · In Know-how

There is a nice video to explain what Guerilla Marketing is. Check it out here. (yes, it becomes cheesy in the end, but the beginning is quite nice.

And if you want to see Guerilla Marketing in action, check out this video of a campaign from HHL-Startup www.wefeel.de, a service started [...]

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Grazia Equity Investment closes next round

On June 16, 2009 · In HHL entrepreneurs

Online movie platform moviepilot closed another financing round. Besides lead-investor Grazia Equity, where HHL-alumnus Jochen Klüppel is a partner, the new investors T-Venture and IBB together provided a 7-digit sum of fresh capital. More info here and here and here.

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Wirtschaftswoche portraits 30 startups that will survive the crisis

On June 16, 2009 · In HHL entrepreneurs

Wirtschaftswoche in a recent article identified 30 startups in Germany that will remain successful despite the crisis. Among these are HHL-startups SunCoal industries with Friedrich von Ploetz, Biotech firm pluriselect with Christian Schmitz and health portal imedo from Christian Angele. Besides this another [...]

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