When I finished my studies in 1992 I can’t remember a single fellow student who was planning to become an entrepreneur after the exam. Even in the classes nobody was focusing on this potential career path. The tutors were always talking about careers at the big enterprises.

Fast forward to today – 17 years!

Today, the entrepreneurship centers and classes of the important universities are established and overcrowded. New additional business schools have opened the doors; students are joining start-ups for an internship and are not only interested in the big brands and enterprises. More and more students aren’t just joining start-ups after they finished their studies or – even better – they’re creating start-ups.

But there is still much to accomplish if we compare this positive trend with the business schools and universities in the US. In order to positively infect the students with the idea to become an entrepreneur the students have to see and to listen to more successful entrepreneurs during their studies. The professors can teach the theory but sharing the entrepreneurial experiences is crucial and important to motivate even more students to neglect offers from the big consultancies and investment banks (well, these offers are blessedly not that much interesting anymore).

To be honest I was a bit skeptical if Twitter is more than just telling my friends and followers that I am waiting for the next flight or other “interesting” and “thrilling” stuff .

Well, I gave it a try and started to post tweets two or three weeks ago. Sometimes I posted interesting links sometimes I shared my opinion.

Here comes the funny and somehow exciting story:

Some years ago I got an idea of a new business case. In order to not disclose the related companies I won’t explain which case it is.

I’ve tried to convince young potential founders in Germany to start such a business model. Well, nobody executed or even started.

About three weeks ago I’ve seen an announcement of a Silicon Valley start-up with more or less exactly the same case.

I wrote a tweet about this Silicon Valley based start-up. Just 10 hours later the CEO sent me an email. We never met and we aren’t connected on LinkedIN or Xing. My tweet found its way to him…

This event convinced me totally about the power and impacts of Social Media and especially Twitter.