Unternehmer-Hochschule
From the monthly archives: February 2010
2nd price was won by Biotech company Powerplant which works on innovative cancer cure approaches. Recently, Powerplant teamed up with HHL-students in the Grazia Equity Businessplan Competition 2010 to develop a full business plan for their idea.
HHL Alumni Johannes Kreibohm and Thorsten Lubinski co-founded social games venture Plinga. Plinga develops and publishes games, which let users play online with their real-world friends using the infrastructure built by social platforms like Facebook or VZ Networks. The start-up is funded by Rocket Internet, the business [...]
After the succesful launch of the startup career fair last year, HHL career services in cooperation with the Entrepreneurship program invited HHL entrepreneurs to the second startup career fair. For a long time, HHL-entrepreneurs have been looking for a way to present themselves in front of HHL students to gain popularity for internship and employment. [...]
One of the core courses of the entrepreneurship elective at HHL is the businessplan seminar where students develop a business plan for their own idea and present it in front of a jury of experts. This event has been hosted by Venture Capital firm Grazia Equity as the "Grazia Equity Businessplan Competition" for [...]
Serial Entrepreneur Friedhelm Wachs was awarded “Most Outstanding Senator of the world” by the largest entrepreneurial organisation of the world, Junior Chamber International (JCI) in Hammamet, Tunesia. He is the first German to receive that honour in the last 64 years. In the event, was honoured for his entrepreneurial achievements and [...]
The weekend from February 7-11, eleven members from HHL’s student initiative accelerate@hhl went to Hamburg to get insights into the local entrepreneurial scene. The program on Saturday started with a presentation by Michael Trautmann, one of the founders of the marketing agency KemperTrautmann which was recently awarded the global Newcomer Agency [...]
German product test service Stiftung Warentest recently assessed online booking portals. Among the seven tested services, billigflieger.de – the meta price comparison engine for flights from HHL alumnus Marcel Radzei was testified to deliver the best prices and was branded as test winner. Read more here.
HHL alumnus René Brembach co-founded a Mexican food concept called típica. típica is an authentic Mexican taquería offering fresh tacos, alambres and other modern Mexican dishes in a modern and classic atmosphere. You can find the first restaurant at Rosenstraße 19, 10178 Berlin or under www.tipica.mx.
German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche started an discussion on their online service wiwo.de how Germany can become more entrepreneurial. Among the discussants are HHL graduates Julia Derndinger and Lukasz Gadowski. Read more here about their views.
Finance portal investor.com featured successful German hedge fund managers. Among the most successful ones (Barron’s ranking #23) is HHL alumnus Karsten Schröder with his own fund Amplitude Capital. Read more 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.
