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From the monthly archives: July 2009
Famous football-player Michael Ballack is now the advertising frontman for the travel activities of unister.de, the company where HHL-alumnus Daniel Kirchhof is Head of Finance.
If you have watched Pro 7 lately you will see the clips with Michael promoting the offers of the Leipzig based company. Congratulations to [...]
The travel plannnig portal verkehrsmittelvergleich, where HHL-alumnus Johannes Grassmann is a co-founder, was successful again. The jury of NUK-Founder Competition awarded the company with the 2nd place (of 176 entries in the competition) and at Munich Business plan competition, Johannes and his team won a [...]
E-learning start-up Lecturio becomes increasingly popular for the media. Lecturio-Founders and HHL alumni Martin Schlichte and Tim Koschella (both K21) managed to be featured with Lecturio and their online-lecture offerings on deutsche-startups.de and in the current WirtschaftsWoche.
Work-Group AKSW (http://aksw.org) the the "Institut für Informatik" of Leipzig University is currently working on several Research- and Development projects that need management support.
The projects focus on the fields of Semantic Web / Web 3.0, e.g. the Wikipedia-semantifizer-project dbpedia (http://dbpedia.org), the Open-Source innovation platform Cofundos.org (http://cofundos.org) and [...]
HHL-alumnus Malte Paul secured 500.000 Euro Venture Capital financing from HTGF-High Tech Gründerfonds. This sum was also co-invested by Holtzbrink Ventures and business angels Oliver Jung and Torsten Oppermann. The investment will be used mainly for the development of more offerings for the gaming platform [...]
The Executive Program in Innovation and Business Creation went into the second round this Summer. The joint program from the UnternehmerTUM initiative at Technical University Munich and HHL
focuses on entrepreneurial students and combined an academic degree with coached project work. This year’s class started its studies at [...]
Many HHL graduates have already started to share their experiences and their capital with promising young start-ups. Among these business angels are HHL-alumni like Lukasz Gadowski, Daniel Grözinger and many others.
New to the group of HHL business angels is Robert Motzek (K11), who supports hour1, a [...]
The reputed publication Internet Business World awarded the 2009 price for the best start-up to Playnik, the gaming company founded by HHL-alumnus Malte Paul (K10).
Among the 20 finalists was also smava, a micro-financing platform where HHL-alumnus Sebastian Rieschel (K11) is in the founder [...]
Förderland has a nice interview with Daniel Grözinger and Sven Schmidt, the HHL-alumni that founded verwandt.de, dealjaeger.de and other projects. Read the full interview here.
Kolja has a nice video on the "key ingredients" for a successful speech. Nicely summarized in a 2.5 minute spot by HHL-entrepreneur Christian Angele from health portal imedo.de Get the video here.
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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.
Earned recognitions include the Wirtschaftswoche Startup of the year, KfW-Gründerchampion, Weconomy winner, Venture Lounge winner, RedHerring Top 100 winner.
