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 builder of the Samwer brothers' European Founders Fund where numerous HHL alumni currently work on developing new ideas.
Thursday, February 25. 2010
New HHL-Startup: Plinga
JCI honours HHL alumnus Friedhelm Wachs
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 his international support of adult education in business and administration. Friedhelm’s nickname within JCI apparently is “ Mister Negotiation”
Wednesday, February 24. 2010
New HHL Startup: tipica mexican restaurant
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.
Tuesday, February 23. 2010
Two HHL graduates discuss how Germany can become more entrepreneurial
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.
Stiftung Warentest certifies Billigflieger.de to deliver best prices
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.
Monday, February 22. 2010
German Wunderkinder: Hedge fund managers from Germany
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.
Friday, February 12. 2010
MisterSpex revolutionizes Optician industry
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.
Monday, February 8. 2010
Playnik wins over 1 million new users in 2009
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.
Wednesday, February 3. 2010
Syntops launches "Personal News"!
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. More info here and here and here.
Monday, February 1. 2010
HHL graduate becomes CEO of mycitideal UK spinoff
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.
Awibra wins third price at LIFE competition
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.
Unister.de swith successful market acceptance of partnersuche.de
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 here.
Wednesday, January 27. 2010
imedo.de doctor search integrated at Wirtschaftswoche online
The doctor search of health portal imedo.de from HHL alumnus Christian Angele now in integrated in over 88 other websites. The most recent addition is on Wirtschaftswoche online. Read more here.
Monday, January 25. 2010
Verwandt.de closes trade-sale with MyHeritage
Serial Entrepreneurs and HHL alumni Daniel Grözinger and Sven Schmidt announced the sale of their family tree portal verwandt.de to myheritage.com for an undisclosed sum. This is already the second successful exit of the founder team that also started dealjaeger.de and invested in Pennergame.de. Recently, they also hired HHL graduate Faban Schaaf as Manager New Ventures for their holding company internetconsumerservices. There surely will be more to be seen of this team. Read more here and here.
Netzschaffende.de went online
Former HHL
research associate Mario
Körösi recently went online with his freelance marketplace netzschaffende.de. With
netzschaffende.de startups and small companies can out-task jobs like finding a
new web-design or company logo to freelancers via a
crowd-sourcing model. The company was seed financed with help of the EXIST
Gründerstipendium – the first at HHL – and awarded by the BMWi
Businessplan competition.
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