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From the monthly archives: August 2010
The latest Top100 list of the biggest online shops in Germany, published from leading knowledge-portal iBusiness, EHI Retail Institute and “Der Versandhausberater” for the first time included MisterSpex. The online optician from Dirk Graber and Björn Sykora officially is one [...]
The Entrepreneurs Organization is a community of successful entrepreneurs aimed on fostering each others development. For younger startups, the organization has been hosting the Accelerator program (German version here) for a couple of years which aims on helping the participants to grow over 1 Mio $ in yearly revenue. For [...]
As in the past years, HHL has teamed up with futuresax, the business plan competition from State of Saxony, to offer an award that is aimed to support saxonian entrepreneurs and start-ups. The price are courses within the award-winning MBA program of HHL to equip the entrepreneurs with necessary management know-how for their [...]
Mysportbrands.de, the closed shopping community for sporting goods founded by HHL graduates Albert Schwarzmeier and Erik Pfannmoeller, succeeded to close their second financing round only a few weeks after going live. With the investment of high-ranking Business Angels andVenture Capital firm Grazia Equity [...]
Venture Capital firm Bain Capital put up a collection of interesting and helpful tools for startups. Check out the list here.
Founder Institute is an entrepreneurship education format which focuses on young entrepreneurs and startups. Over a period of several months, participants meet regularly on Fridays to receive lectures and to engage into discussions. Lecturers are actually called coaches and primarily also have own entrepreneurial experience. Deadline for the first series in Berlin [...]
HHL alumni Erik Pfannmoeller (canoe world champion 2007 and world cup winner 2008) and Albert Schwarzmeier (Beautydeal, Zalando and Citydeal) just opened up the gates to their new venture. With Mysportbrands.de they offer a closed shopping community dedicated to the sporting goods industry, Germany’s first online shopping club for sport [...]
Current HHL student Christian Klemenz chose to move to Silicon Valley for his compulsory internship. From there he organized the first “Startup School Entrepreneurship Day: Germany Meets Silicon Valley” via his employer Supercool School. Foerderland features this project in a recent interview.
Gabriel has a very nice post on some key aspects you should remember before signing a term-sheet with any investor. Read his article here.
When companies are in instant need for professionals in their organization, they increasingly hire interim managers. HHL alumnus Thorsten Becker saw this trend coming already ten years ago ad founded one of the first HHL startups: Management Angels.
In a recent article, WELT features the idea behind interim [...]
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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.
