Maximilian is the Managing Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at WHU, Germany's most successful business school when it comes to entrepreneurship. Before that he worked at the Entrepreneurship Center at RWTH Aachen, Germany’s largest technical university and founded a startup himself. 

Having done his bachelor degree at WHU and now leading their Entrepreneurship Center, I thought Maximilian would be the perfect guest to talk about how universities can successfully foster entrepreneurship and how students eager to found can make use of their time at university to prepare for a career as founders.

In this episode of the Entrepreneurship & Leadership podcast, we talk about

His message for entrepreneurial students: "Get exposure. Join likeminded people and learn how the startup world really works beyond the romanticization of shark tank."

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Michael

Learn more about Entrepreneurship at WHU at ⁠https://whu.edu/en/faculty/entrepreneurship-and-innovation-group/entrepreneurship-center/

Connect with Maximilian on ⁠⁠https://linkedin.com/in/maximilianeckel/

Connect with me on ⁠⁠https://linkedin.com/in/m-froehlich/⁠⁠