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.

Techcrunch is arguably one of the premier services for tech-oriented entrepreneurs. Amongst other things they also continuously screen the start-up scene around the world and host the UK-based Techcrunch Europe Awards for the some of the most promising startups. Their list of nominees throughout different categories also provides very good (and [...]

In this German article on Welt.de the impact of the financial crisis on the recently emerging peer-to-peer credit market is evaluated. Interesting read, citing also smava - the player co-founded by HHL-alumnus Sebastian Rieschel.

As Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports, a survey among over 140 experts from the German media landscape showed, that the majority expects increasing investments in new media concepts in the next year. The survey was conducted by Burda Research & Development in preparation of the upcoming dld fair. More info here.

Gründerszene interviewed Jörg Rheinboldt, Co-founder and former Managing Director of ebay Germany and today active with an own investment firm M10 as well as a social entrepreneurship project betterplace.

Jörg visited the HHL-Unternehmer-Stammtisch in August to present the international Entrepreneurs Organisation and to discuss with [...]

Venture Beat has been taking a closer look at the German startup scene. Interesting review with a short assessment of Germany-based companies doodle, plista, wuala, stupeflix and youcalc. 

TU Munich, a partner University of HHL, recently had the Blackstone Co-Founder and CEO as a lecturer (Organized by Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Professor at KfW endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance). See the full video of his speech on Private Equity recent financial market turmoils etc.
Blackstone’s Stephen A. Schwarzman @ TU München from [...]

This one has been around for some time, but I like it so much I just need to share it

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