Have you ever made plans to get drinks with someone, met for said drinks, determined if there was any chemistry between the two of you, made a decision to have sex with that person based on whether or not you were attracted to him or her, and, if you were and did, went home the next day after breakfast without money being exchanged? Then congratulations! You are a small business owner, according to a group of German entrepreneurs.
As a business model, it’s a win-win formula: Two potential partners set out to profit from a mutual transaction. That must be how the three business students from the University of Mannheim in southwestern Germany, who call themselves Oskar, Christopher and Julius, imagined things to be when they decided to offer their services by creating what could best be described as a free brothel. They offer stressed-out, female students uncomplicated and anonymous one-night stands. As future marketing experts, the students know that business ideas with at least a pseudo-philosophical foundation are often the ones that are best received. They call their project Bib:Love — a reference to the first letters of the German word Bibliothek, meaning library — and the slogans which they have plastered on posters around the university’s campus promise “Good Grades through Good Sex.” The young men claim that their project is about emancipation in a broader sense and that their initiative should be recognized as more than a mere coital campaign.
The men claim they have so far received 82 messages at the Bib:Love Hotmail. Some are searching for intimacy, some crack jokes and others are simply curious. Of these messages, nine have resulted in bookings. The meeting point is always the L3 student café on the University of Mannheim campus. “The L3 is the perfect spot because there are always a lot of students here during the week,” says Oskar. “Then you can meet and have a beer and check to see if the chemistry is right.” The young men reserve the right to withdraw their service should a girl’s appearance be unpromising. If the circumstances are right, the meeting ends in sex. Brothel comparisons aside, the Bib:World project is not as wild as one might think. Unusual sexual practices are not catered for, admits Christopher. Bib:Love is confined to that which students like to do on a typical Friday night: meet someone in a bar, spend a night with the student from next door — foreplay and breakfast the next morning included if desired.
Your move, Wharton.
Students Offer Free Sex to Help Coeds Make the Grade [Spiegel via Marginal Revolution]
Need an L3 in Midtown!
You have one: Taco Bell Penn Station
Margins? We'll make it up on volume.
-Bib:Love
No, I wouldn't want to call myself a "small" business owner.
University of Mannheim? I didn't think you had to go to college to become a car dealer.
- UBS Dealer Auction Quant
We all know that B-school nerds over-think everything. But over-thinking and crafting a business plan out of "getting drunk and waking up next to strange pussy" is a new low.
BA Psychology is to brain dead sorority girls with Daddy issues as MBA from elite program is to delusional nerds who never got laid in undergrad but think the prestige and wealth of an MBA will make them studs to the girls that have been avoiding them for 28 years
HUGE fan of their steamrolling music.
Boy these Samwer brothers are cloning everything.
David Walker
In other words, CFA > MBA?
An MBA is to developing skills with women as you are to coherent sentence composition.
Nothing like a few intrepid MBAs to bring the Lebensborn program back to the fatherland.
-Terrified Polish Quant
Dear Bibi:love management,
We loved your business plan. We a few openings just under the C-Suite level and we think you'd be a great fit. Would you perhaps be interested in coming for an interview.
Munich Re/Ergo/Hamburg Mannheimer
Reading Bess's writing has always filled me to the brim with entrepreneurial spirit.
So I'm guessing you've trolled successfully at Taco Bell Penn Station for some pink taco?
But it would be much cooler if they were getting blown by random golf course employees, right?
The short answer is yes.
Speaking of, where's Nervous Jew? Haven't heard from him in quite some time.
Keep chugging bro, you'll get em in that 29th year.
Cleaning his house, preparing for Passover?
- MOT
That's it. I'm following my dream and starting up that auto-erotic asphyxiation 401c3.
German: Essen meine scheisse.
Mrs. Cartman: Okey-dokey!
Kyle, Stan, Cartman: [they see something gross] AWWWWWW!
Stan: [pukes] Click it off, dude, click it off!
[Kyle clicks it off]
Stan: Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people?
Doritos:Locos
I guess you're right–'curious' isn't quite the right way to describe it…
Guess there's no Craigslist in Germany.
- Guest who is too lazy to check if there is Craigslist in Germany
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Cameron has never been in love – at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.
Could go the CFA route and have your parents send you a bride from back home in Mumbai or Shanghai.
No se, donde esta el bano?
Mannheim Steamroller > Cleveland Steamer
Zis is not true.
-Ze Germanz
I've been out combing the High Schools all day!
Just get them to appear on your show and you're in like flynn
We have one – It's called Turtle Bay.
I don't love that idea.
- David Carradine
You must be new here.
-Commenter with 5 Year Dealbreaker service pin.
Their mascot is the "Steamrollers".
I once told an angry Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, "Hey mon vieux, don't get short with me! "
+1000
The Aquila guys in Omaha used to excitedly drive newhires by Warren Buffett's house and then brag about Manheim Streamroller starting in Omaha. And something about a Pizza chain and Runzas would soon be followed by an awkward silence and light conversation about how it must suck to have to work in Houston.
Need volunteers for Beta test? Also revenue model is what?
I have been missing Nervous Jew as well.
I sure hope so.
UBS unpaid intern
I choked up when I read that.
Piso mojado!!!
Oh my god, just go away.
It gets better, trust me
- 2nd year UBS unpaid intern
We're First National Change Bank
<img src="http://www.fitnessfoodlist.com/news/dailynews/left.jpg">This article is very good, and I think the same way.<img src="http://www.fitnessfoodlist.com/news/dailynews/leftl.jpg">
There indeed isn`t
Here are the Links to the website :
http://www.bib-love.de http://www.bib-love.com
have a look ;-)
Here are the Links to the website :
http://www.bib-love.de http://www.bib-love.com
have a look ;-)
Do they have a satellite campus in Cleveland?
Does this make drinks/condoms tax deductible?
There indeed isn't
- Guy who knows
No, but the do have one in Mannheim.
You ruined it for me .. Boohooo
UChicago Hookups…so last year
Sex on campus, yeah, yeah, big deal, overdone, but this beer on campus thing might have legs
They had me at hotmail.
just curious, what happens if the guy is busted, does the girl get to back away from the trade.
Warm ale will ruin your mind
Nerds will do anything to get a peice!!!
I choked up when I read that.
-Michael Hutchence
Fixed it for you
We are incumbents to IPO this baby.
- Deutsche ECM
you mean they are not?
- UBS Tax VP
Univ producing most Christmas Albums
FACEBOOK 2 business plan and model.
Make that 30
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