Tobias Zimmer’s startup Coffe-Bike was also featured as an offline role model at Foerderland.de where they talk about his approach on building the brand and a franchise system for internationalization.

http://www.foerderland.de/419+M5581afa854b.0.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foerderland%2Fgruender+%28f%C3%B6rderland%3A+Nachrichten+Gr%C3%BCnder+und+StartUps%29

http://www.franchisekey.com/de/franchise-news/franchise-system-coffee-bike-will-international-wachsen.htm

The founder of betreut.de was recently interviewed by a leading afiliate portal in Germany.

http://www.affiliate-deals.de/blog/index.php/10-fragen-an-steffen-zoller-geschaeftsfuehrer-besser-betreut-gmbh/

HHl-alumna Julia Derndinger from imedo (www.imedo.de)is featured in this video-interview on Gründerszene. She talks about success factors in the very early stages of a company and on the topic of women entrepreneurship.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/interviews/julia-derndinger-imedo?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=julia-derndinger-imedo

HHL-alumnus Martin Schlichte secured a financing round for his E-Learning portal lecturio (http://www.lecturio.de). With Holtzbrinck Ventures, he found an additional institutional investor besides Leipzig-based TechnologieGründerFonds Sachsen (TGFS) that already supported the startup phase of the company.

http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/10/18/lecturio-holtzbrinck/

HHL-alumni Dirk Graber and Björn Sykore and their company Mister Spex as well as Spreadshirt from HHL-alumnus Lukasz Gadowski were named “milestones in the German mail order business” at the Insight E-Commerce conference in Leipzig. The awards are given to people and companies that helped to shape the German mail order business with innovations and outstanding accomplishments.

http://relevant.at/wirtschaft/pr/330385/mister-spex-meilenstein-des-deutschen-versandhandels.story

Shoppingclub MySportBrands (www.mysportbrands.de) from HHL-alumni Erik Pfannmöller and Albert Schwarzmeier closed another financing round. This time, investors XAnge (www.xange.fr), Astutia (www.astutia.de) and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (www.ibb-bet.de) with VC Fonds Kreativwirtschaft Berlin provided several million Euro for the further development of the company.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/mysportbrands-xange-frogster-gruender-gerlinger

HHL-alumnus, serial entrepreneur and investor Sven Schmidt provided a very insightful analysis on the recent acquisition of hotel.de through HRS. A very good introduction into Entrepreneurial Finance considerations when doing a due diligence.

http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/10/17/hrs-hotelde-analyse-sven-schmidt/

Lieferheld/ Deliveryhero which was founded with the help of Team Europe, the business builder from HHL-alumnus Lukasz Gadowski, announced that it has secured 15 Mio. € of funding within the first 12 months

http://www.lukaszgadowski.com/proud-on-eur-15-mio-for-lieferheld-deliveryhero-within-the-first-12-months-and-why-strong-capitalizations-win-in-the-current-start-up-environment