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From the monthly archives: February 2010
E-Commerce service awibra from HHL-alumnus Sandro Günther won 3rd price at this years LIFE – Leipziger Ideenwettbewerb. This yearly event gives young entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their idea in an elevator pitch in front of a jury and over 300 guests. In a competition with 64 other teams Sandro convinced [...]
Several articles already featured the impact that MisterSpex from HHL alumnus Dirk Graber has on the optician market. Read here about a recent Handelsblatt article on MisterSpex.
Online gaming portal playnik.com, where HHL alumnus Malte Paul is a co-founder, succeeded in winning over 1 million new users in 2009. "Currently we win 5.000 to 10.000 new gamers a day" told Malte in an interview with German newspaper die Welt.
HHL alumnus Gregor Dorsch has already won several awards for his company Syntops. Just recently they launched their newest product: PersonalNews, a customizable newspaper for end consumers. Basically you pick-and-coose the topics you are interested in, syntops aggregates the respective articles from several partners and delivers your very own personal newspaper to you. [...]
Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and business builder Oliver Samwer talks about how to best prepare for the decision to become an entrepreneur. Very good stuff.
HHL graduate Christopher Muhr now starts Mycitideal’s UK-spinoff as CEO. After having supported several startups within the Rocket Internet sphere (amongst other as CEO of ecareer), Christopher now took an the charge to independently grown the business of Mycitiydeal out of his London base. Read more here.
Online behemoth unister.de, where HHL alumnus Daniel Kirchof is the Head of Finance, recently informed about the successful implementation of their latest offering partnersuche.de. Apparently they get several thousand new users each week – an impressive performance in the rivalry-ridden market for online partner search. Read more here and
Online Optician MisterSpex from HHL alumnus Dirk Graber announced a whooping 4.5 Mio Euro revenue in 2009 – up from 0.5 Mio Euro in 2008. This is a remarkable development and we are looking forward for Dirk’s future development. Read more here.
HHL alumnus Sandro Günther won 3rd plase in the LIFE competition from the Leipzig entrepreneurship initiative Smile. Sandro convinced the jury with his business idea on awibra - a B2B service for optimizing routine sourcing tasks. Congratulations. Read more 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.
