A Brown Field ...

... where everything started.

In 1969 our family moved from Nackenheim, a small village on the Rhine famous for Carl Zuckmayer and its vineyards, to Mainz-Lerchenberg. This suburb just recently had been constructed on the brown field about 10 km out of Mainz next to the headquarters of German Television ZDF.

http://www.mainz-lerchenberg.de/

Not only had we lots of free and semi-finished space outside our home, a couple of hundreds of meters to the open fields and orchards that still span out to the horizon. Rather in our home, my father an electrical engineer with lots of interest fields (from model plane flying, interconnecting the house to what you would call the "Intelligent Wired House" nowadays, and building sheds in the garden) set up the socalled "Play Cellar". There piles of wood, tools and other material was at hand to be used by us, my sister and myself, as well as friends to build stuff out of nothing.

Why do I still remember so clearly these days?

How everything began ..

... this will tell the story from the idea to set up an Entrepreneurial Think Tank has come from. Deep in the hidden (mostly to that day) history of my past life there lie the real reasons for starting the project.

I will post rather short episodes that are relevant for the current time.