Start Ups / Entrepreneurs / VC and other interesting things for us to look at while at Mannheim Business School:
Mannheim Business School - Institute for SME's
http://www.entrepreneur-guide.de/
Venture Capital Summit for Students in Feb 2010
http://munichventuresummit.megabyet.net/
Social Media to the extreme:
http://pleaserobme.com/
Other websites:
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/
http://www.vc-magazin.de/
http://www.gruenderszene.de/
www.nexxt-change.org
Would love more insight into the German / Euro market...
MBS Stammtisch - It's happening!
You are invited to the Mannheim Business School Stammtisch evening:
The Inaugural MBS Stammtisch - 5th March 2010 @ 18:30 at Novus (M4,1)
Stay for one drink, or many. Stay to meet one person or many. We invite you nonetheless to take the opportunity to meet new people, explore other cultures, meet other students from the Full Time MBA, the EMBA, the EMAT across all year levels.
After many meetings and feedback from you all (see attached for a summary), we would like to kick off a monthly networking event for students, alumni and friends of the Mannheim Business School.
SA State Championships - AUBC win Mens' Eight!
SA Rowing First Grade State Titles from A.M. Ramsay International course West Lakes, 20/02/2010.
AUBC win Mens' Eight at South Australian State Championships.
Results for the rest of the regatta - Phil Mangelsdorf
AUBC win Mens' Eight at South Australian State Championships.
And it was the Adelaide Uni mens eight who won the 117th and last race of the weekend on Sunday and the state title in the mens eights from their arch rivals and last years winners, the Adelaide club.
The two rivals were level after 500 metres of racing but then the Adelaide Uni crew, stroked by Mathew Bolt, settled on a rock solid 35 strokes per minute and took the lead over Adelaide who were always rating two or more strokes higher and looked short in their stroke making as they tried everything to keep up with the speed of the Adelaide Uni crew.
Adelaide Uni put on a finishing burst towards the end of the race but it was hardly needed as they crossed the finish line 7.29 seconds in front of Adelaide with the St Peters College crew 8.67 behind third and Prince Alfred College fourth.
The Adelaide Uni crew was again successfully coached by Michael Jeffries and contained several of the men who won the Australian Universities title last year and for this race was further strengthened by the inclusion of the experienced Australian representative Bolt and Olympian Chris Morgan.
Results for the rest of the regatta - Phil Mangelsdorf
RFID / Barcodes Do we need them?
Machine vision is now so powerful it can detect slight changes in skin movement (See video on the graphics behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ted.com for ideas) under many light conditions. In the case of warehouse and supermarket inventory/POS management systems it would seem that the next step forward is to remove RFID and barcodes altogether and replace the readers with machine vision. Training machines to read objects, to recognise certain logos, colours and shapes is relatively simple technology. As long as the features are distinctive and all objects are placed within view of the camera they can be 'read'. There would be no need to scan anything physically just simply put the items along a conveyor and let the machine do the scanning.
Clearly there are already sunk costs in infrastructure at warehouses and supermarkets but over time the current systems will need to be upgraded in any case. Marks and Spencer, Ikea and others are already experimenting with self serve cashiers. Machine vision could be the next generation.
Clearly there are already sunk costs in infrastructure at warehouses and supermarkets but over time the current systems will need to be upgraded in any case. Marks and Spencer, Ikea and others are already experimenting with self serve cashiers. Machine vision could be the next generation.
Mannheim One School Stammtisch Proposal
“One School” Update:
8th February 2010
A number of us from the Mannheim Business School met on Friday at Novus to further discussions and keep this project moving. Included were program management, representatives from the EMAT and Fulltime MBA as well as Alumni from the EMBA.
Firstly, thanks to those who came along. It was a most enjoyable evening meeting you all and to get feedback and develop ideas on how to go forward bringing the school together.
Key discussion points and resolutions were:
8th February 2010
A number of us from the Mannheim Business School met on Friday at Novus to further discussions and keep this project moving. Included were program management, representatives from the EMAT and Fulltime MBA as well as Alumni from the EMBA.
Firstly, thanks to those who came along. It was a most enjoyable evening meeting you all and to get feedback and develop ideas on how to go forward bringing the school together.
Key discussion points and resolutions were:
Infosys Company Presentation
Aditya Nath Jha, Head of Global Branding and Corporate Marketing at Infosys presented on the 2nd of February. I took notes, luckily, because it was one of the best company presentations we have been seen at the Mannheim Business School this year.
We never know what we will get at these presentations. Sometimes the speaker simply tells us how good their company is, sometimes they don't even mention the company and simply give us a presentation to somehow inspire us to join the company. This one from Infosys was somewhere in between. Unfortunately for many of us who are interested, they are looking for experienced German nationals to give them a direct contact with the industry here. They are expanding rapidly in Germany currently. Due to their employee demographic being 96% Indian they have had troubles previously getting traction in the German market. It looks like they have woken up to this and are starting to make some progress. So although not so useful to us as a recruiting drive it was a great presentation nonetheless. Here are some notes:
Six Key changes in Marketing:
We never know what we will get at these presentations. Sometimes the speaker simply tells us how good their company is, sometimes they don't even mention the company and simply give us a presentation to somehow inspire us to join the company. This one from Infosys was somewhere in between. Unfortunately for many of us who are interested, they are looking for experienced German nationals to give them a direct contact with the industry here. They are expanding rapidly in Germany currently. Due to their employee demographic being 96% Indian they have had troubles previously getting traction in the German market. It looks like they have woken up to this and are starting to make some progress. So although not so useful to us as a recruiting drive it was a great presentation nonetheless. Here are some notes:
Six Key changes in Marketing:
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