I love seeing people realizing their own ideas on a economical basement - to make a living out of their passion or to bring a vision to life. Whatever the reason might be, they all have in common that they are driven by energy, optimism and passion.

What I want is to inspire people to go ahead in realizing their ideas and bringing to life their visions in a passionate and economically successful way. 

That is why I am working as a journalist and editor for Tiburon-TV. Together with my brother I run a startup by myself, Die Fans, which is all about german soccer. And I work as a trainer, speaker, presenter and university teacher, always with the focus on entrepreneurship, inspiring the people and helping them to become even better.

How do I come to that point?
The thread in my life is all about entrepreneurship and I also would call myself an innerpreneur.

I was born in Berlin, grew up in the eastern part, went a year to Brazil during high school and started to study sociology, first with a focus on development. During university I spent one more year in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and there it was how I got in touch with entrepreneurship.

The people living in the favelas had to see how they make money to survive, some of them found a very creative way to do so, setting up a group - a “cooperativa” - working together in fashion design and sewing. The most famous example even got invited to different fashion weeks and did projects together with international designers. That impressed and inspired me a lot. I was amazed by the energy of these people.

Back in Germany I started a project to sell their products. During that time I met my professor Günter Faltin, who teaches entrepreneurship for a very long time already and who very successfully set up his own business Teekampagne. And I started to work at “Entrepreneurial Research Teams” at the Technical University of Berlin. Half a year later I was asked by my own University, the Freie Universität Berlin, to work there and to assemble a concept for the whole university for promoting and teaching entrepreneurship. For that concept we received a 2 millions of Euro funding by the European Social Fonds. That was also the time than I finished my studies with a theses about “Entrepreneurship at Berlin Universities”.

After continuing some time working at the university I changed to the media, starting to work as a journalist and presenter in the startup section of JobTV in 2006. Then I managed to get funding for my brothers soccer portal and set up a company together with him in July 2007. And after some trials and a lot of talks with Daniel Wild of getmobile, Tiburon AG and Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH,we’ve set up Tiburon-TV, because Daniel is also all about promoting entrepreneurship.

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IN GERMAN
Wer bin ich?
Geboren in Berlin Mitte - Jahrgang 1980 - ein Jahr in Brasilien gelebt - Soziologie studiert - mehrere Monate durch Thailand gereist - noch mal ein Jahr Brasilien - Anfang 2004 erste Versuche eines eigenen Business = brasilianisches Design, Kunsthandwerk und Bikinis nach D importiert - dann Seitenwechsel: Einstieg in die Gründungsförderung - erst an der Technischen Universtität Berlin bei den Entrepreneurial Research Teams, dann von der Freien Universität Berlin abgeworben - dort (in der Verwaltung/ Päsidium) ein Konzept der Gründungsförderung für die gesamte Universität entwickelt - erfolgreich Gelder rangeholt um zahlreiche neue Mitarbeiter einzustellen - nebenbei Studium beendet: Dipl. Soziologin (Dipl.arbeit: Gründungsförderung an Berliner Hochschulen) - an der FU (Verwaltung/ Präsidium) angefangen zu arbeiten - in ein dynamischeres Umfeld gewechselt: in die Redaktion und Moderation der Gründerwerkstatt von JobTV24 - dort über Gründer und sie betreffende Themen berichtet - nebenbei aktiv als Mentorin für Prof. Faltin und den Arbeitsbereich Entrepreneurship, FU Berlin + Stiftung für Entrepreneurship - jetzt dazu: Einstieg bei meinem Bruder - später: noch viel mehr… (Stand: Dezember 2006)

Update Mai 2007:
Seit Mitte Mai an der TFH Berlin in deren Gründerwerkstatt als Forschungsassistentin - davor Relaunch von die-fans.de realisiert und erstes zusätzliches Geld rangeholt - daneben für unterschiedliche Auftraggeber als freie Journalistin tätig - dazwischen Ausbildung zur Kommunikations- und Verhaltenstrainerin beendet - nebenbei ein paar Seminare gegeben - Fazit: viel zu tun…