Nils built his first startup – an online quiz community – while he did a training at the local Sparkasse (bank) in Lower Saxony. While studying management and economics at University Witten/Herdecke, he and some friends founded a consulting agency working with municipalities to implement creative concepts of citizen participation. After graduation in 2006 he worked as a project manager at a traditional family business before founding Textprovider – today one of the leading online content marketing agencies in Germany. In 2014 he handed over operating business to the management team and together with two friends founded Hilfswerft – a social business to promote the social entrepreneurship concept and to personally train social change makers.