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From the monthly archives: June 2010
On June 24, 2010, the 8th annual Grazia Equity Business Plan Competition was hosted at HHL by Jochen Klüppel, HHL alumnus and Partner at Venture Capital firm Grazia Equity. Together with a jury of entrepreneurs he evaluated the final presentations of this spring’s HHL Business Plan Seminar. 13 teams [...]
Social gaming company Plinga of HHL alumnus Johannes Kreibohm secured a major contract with one of the biggest social platforms in Poland, Nasza Klasa. Being the first company to offer games in this polish social network, Plinga will get a headstart in their commnity.
HHL entrepreneurship student initiative accelerate@hhl organized the first event in their “launch@hhl” series. The aim of launch@hhl is to bring together interested students with entrepreneurs and investors to discuss the success factors of starting up a business. More information and pictures from the event are available on the HHL blog.
Excitingcommerce.de informs about an interesting and very informative study on the behavior of online shoppers in Europe. Valuable insights for everybody selling on the Internet, developped by consulting company McKinsey & Co.
Short interview with Stephan Stubner on the Entrepreneurship activities of HHL.
E-Learning platform lecturio.de from HHL alumni Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte recently opened up their specialized offering for law students. Basically, all law students in Germany book so-called “Jura-Repetitorium” to prepare for the exams. As this review states, lecturio is [...]
Another HHL startup that has won numeruous prices this year is online gaming portal Playnik (with their mother company worldwidegames). RedHerring, one of the leading technology journals, now conferred an award to the Hamburg based startup from Malte Paul. awarded them now with the RedHerring Top100 [...]
HHL Alumnus Karsten Schröder has received wide media attention in the past months speaking in favour of the Hedgefund-industry (e.g. Maybritt Illner, Kerner, etc.). Recently, also Welt and Telebörse featured the viewpoint of the founder of hedgefund company Amplitude Capital.
MisterSpex, the online optician from HHL alumni Dirk Graber and Björn Sykora, was awarded the RedHerring Top100 award Europe. This yearly award is conferred to the most innovative technology companies worldwide.
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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.
