Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: November 2009
Please find a debrief on the http://www.dmexco.de/de/(digital marketing exposition & conference) at Gruenderszene.de
With his start-up mellowball, HHL alumnus Sebastian Hettlage offers the first platform for "surprise shopping". On a daily basis you can "shake the mellowball" and are presented with favourable product offerings from fashion design, IT, travel, lifestlye and entertainment. Read more here and here.
HHL alumnus Sebastian Siebert went online with his new service Fashionette, a luxury accessoire leasing portal ("rent a Gucci" – you get the point). Fashionette is a brand of Luxury Fashion Trade GmbH where Sebastian is a co-founder. With Roland Reschke, by now also another HHL [...]
On November 12, over 50 participants koined up at HHL to discuss with serial entrepreneur Dr. Andreas Emmendoerffer during an Entrepreneurship Roundtable at HHL.
Organized jointly with the TRM institute from Leipzig University and HHL Executive Education, this event brought together HHL students with researchers and founders from [...]
After two years of absence, the Entrepreneurship student intitiative "accelerate@hhl" was revived this term. Over 15 students joined up together to regularly meet and discuss entrepreneurial ideas. In addition, they focus on developing their skills to start up a business and e.g. organize several field trips to start-ups and investors in Germany to learn more [...]
On October 31 the 2nd generation of the EO Accelerator program started in Berlin. Goal of the exclusive high potential program is to support start-ups to gain the abilities to push their annual revenue beyond the "magic threshold" of 1,000,000 $. This is done by a series of workshops, networking with successful entrepreneurs [...]
HHL-alumnus Christoper Muhr recently co-founded e-career Internet. The company focuses on providing a job portal for positions above 50.000 Euro yearly salary. With an intelligent matching service in the backend, ecareer adds a new and interesting twist to the market for job portals. The start-up is funded by
This years G-Forum Entrepreneurship conference was hosted by the Unversity of Leipzig. This leading German conference on Entrepreneurship and Family Business is an excellent opportunity to connect with the German research community and sharpen HHL’s image as an entrepreneurial Business School.
Fairix is an online shopping portal for sustainable prodocuts. The product range of the company, where HHL-alumnus Philipp Legge is a co-founder, ranges from electronics to cosmetics, from furniture to clothing etc. The acclaimed goal of fairix ist to become the German market leader for sustainable trade. Read more [...]
Mobile TV broadcaster dailyme.tv from HHL alumnus Stefan Bielau apparently has secured partnerships with media giant NBC Universal and gamona. read more here and here.
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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.
