iDO!

The problem

Entrepreneurship is not equally distributed. In practice, access to networks, mentors, and institutional support is concentrated in a small number of cities, schools, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Students with genuine ideas and the capacity to build are sidelined — not because they lack ability, but because they lack access.

This is not a complaint. It is a design problem. And design problems have solutions.

What was built

iDO! is an entrepreneurship initiative operating through TU Berlin's EINS (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support) program. It provides structured frameworks for early-stage founder development, community infrastructure for peer connection, and direct support for navigating the earliest stages of company formation.

The initiative is built around the conviction that most of what blocks early founders is not knowledge — it is structure and credibility. iDO! provides both.

My role

Founder. That means everything from program design to partnerships to showing up every week and making it work. The institutional support from EINS provides legitimacy and resources; the initiative itself is driven by direct outreach, iteration based on participant feedback, and a refusal to make it more complicated than it needs to be.

What I learned

Infrastructure for access is harder to build than a product — because the value is relational and diffuse rather than immediate and measurable. The most useful thing I have done is show up consistently. The second most useful thing is making sure participants feel capable rather than advised.