- Skyco
- The Berlin webdesign company with the lizard logo.
- Berlin on Bike!
- Guided bike tours of Berlin are the latest craze. Through good marketing and exciting tours, in three years we have built a sightseeing company serving more than 10,000 customers annually.
- Stadtlust Berlin
- Moonlighting job in which I created the original site for a student sightseeing company.
- Offline Marketing
- You can not always stare at screens. That is why we have propaganda in real life too!
Biography
In the beginning...
As a former East German at the age of 13, I was exposed to a few dinosaur Robotrons at the community Pioneer House. I learned to program in Basic and played Cave before graduating to a Commodore 64.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After 1989, a couple of friends and I began a start-up Internet Campaign to provide every German a computer for less then 1000 dm (roughly $600). One of our advertising strategies was www.happyhour-berlin.de, a website for the savvy drinker, where I learned the ins and outs of databases.
University 1990s
I gained rudimentary knowledge of HTML, Java, SQL and PHP in my IT Economics program at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
21st Century Man
Berlin on Bike! A buddy and I grew this side business of 16 bikes to a legit company serving over 10,000 customers by 2006. It was my first big success in understanding the power of digital marketing, sealing my fate as a professional web programmer.