Off-Topic:

Creepy, this looks so real.

- Venture Lounge competition: Venture Lounge ran a competition last week in Frankfurt to find new innovative ideas. Winners are Lumin, yasni.de and netjobbing.de.

- Viral Marketing in practice: Lukasz Gadowski blogs about a successful viral-marketing initiative of netzatlethen.de. Interesting read.

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- yasni.de: you do know that HR-departments google your name? Well, now this task has become even easier. With yasni.de they have one site that searches multiple services and delivers links to e.g. your facebook profiles, investments etc. Check it out what is out there about you.

- Google Analytics tutorials: [...]

News from the Entrepreneurship Program:

- FTD features HHL as entrepreneurial B-School: In today’s issue of Financial Times Deutschland you will find an article about the entrepreneurial activities from HHL-Alumni – and how the school fosters this spirit. Alumni Daniel Grözinger from verwandt.de/ dealjaeger.de etc. (nice picture of him in the [...]

News from the Entrepreneurship program:
- Entrepreneurship Roundtable successful: On March 7 around 40 HHL students, alumni and researchers from the TRM institute of Leipzig University gathered together for an Entrepreneurship roundtable. The speech of Dr. Emmendörfer, CEO of Biotech company Euroderm showed not only [...]

Interesting Links: Team Search: http://jobs.easn.de/: Looking for co-founders? Check here! Web2.0 law: Wth user-generated abundant via youtube etc. the question of copyright becomes a critical issues also for private website owners. At www.rechtzweinull.de you can get more information on copyright issues in the internet and what you have to consider before [...]

Investors favour medtech startups: Gründerraum has an update on a study the German Business Angel association recently conducted in investment activities in Germany. Key findings: the past year has been great both for startups looking for money and for investors selling-off their stakes. But the climate is getting [...]

Are you an entrepreneur?: At förderland they write about www.marktstart-tagebuch.de, an online project which aims on building up a handbook on how to start up ad run a fast-growing company. Persistance is important: Those of you who have attended Peter Kestings entrepreneurship class know that persistence is a very important entrepreneurial [...]

With the recent success of mymuesli.de, several new mass customization startups have been founded that try to harvest on the current trend for product/service personalization. Deutsche Startups provides a nice overview of the German players (text in German)

Ernst & Young is looking for the German Entrepreneur of the year. In several categories companies with at least 40 employees headquartered in Germany can participate (exception for nominations in the Startup-category). For more information check here, or read the press release.