VigLink is a new company started by a classmate at HBS. The viglink guys managed to line up some very famous investors, including Google Ventures and a founder of LinkedIn. It enables website administrators to automatically convert existing links into affiliate links. One quick install and a website automatically participates in every relevant affiliate program. […]

When starting your company out of school, consider publishing a launch notice on your schools website and ask them to send out a press release about your launch. This has worked quite well for the wedding registry venture I have worked with. Their Professor published a launch note on his website, which resulted in ZDF, […]

Today’s post is about a cool startup of a few guys who studied at the same institute as I did in Munich: amiando. amiando is a Munich-based Start-up company and was founded by Felix Haas, Dennis von Ferenczy, Marc Bernegger, Sebastian Bärhold and Armin Bauer. Within three years, amiando grew up to a significant company […]

When starting a company out of college or within your MBA I highly recommend talking to the entrepreneurship center of your school. Student entrepreneurs usually find a broad offering ranging from mentoring programs to office space to access to business angels and venture capital. At Harvard, the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship  is doing a fantastic […]

This is the first of a series of posts I will publish about startups of classmates and friends (or other people if they have a really bright idea…) – so lets start with honeywish: honeywish is a Munich-based start-up company for which I helped writing their business plan during my second year at HBS and […]

My website recommendation of the day: www.Springwise.com A network of scouts, looking for and writing about new, interesting business ideas – Brain food for Entrepreneurs! This is how they describe their site: Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, […]

Welcome to this blog. Here I want to write about interesting new startups, other classmates from Harvard who are entrepreneurs and new business ideas. Looking forward to your comments, and if you were in my class and also started something, let me know and I will mention you here…