by
Iskender Dirik

We’ll enable you to build and grow your own tech startup or digital agency, with less detours.

Building and growing a startup is an overwhelming challenge. With us, you finally have a trusted partner at your side. We help you to found your own tech startup or digital agency and to get to product-market fit. And beyond.

With our help you’ll get closer to your dream: independence with your very own, successfully scaling company. Faster and with less pain.

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Iskender Dirik is a VC, Entrepreneur, and Executive having worked for some of the most innovative tech firms in the world:

Digital Transformation

Iskender providing his SuperScale framework at Microsoft:

Transformation

We’ll help you to avoid the biggest pitfalls of tech startup and agency founders and to accelerate your path to success

Problems

You want to build a successful tech startup or agency and know some of this too well:

You don’t know how and where to start
You want but can’t leave your annoying corporate job
You have no product idea - or you have too many of them
You don’t have a co-founder and struggle to find one
Your value proposition is not sharp enough – or you have none
Your customer profile is too vague
You love your product but you’re the only one, so far
You don’t know how to build the product you envisage
You have no clue how to market and sell your product
You don’t know how to attract investors
Solutions

We’ll enable you to transform your startup idea holistically with:

A plan to validate your idea
A plan to escape your corporate job
A strategy to find the right co-founder
A clear value proposition
A plan to get to product-market fit
A focused go-to-market strategy
An effective product development roadmap
A unique market positioning
A path to VC funding
The right foundations for your next scaling phase
The right mindset
Happy Founders

Listen to some founders we supported in their building phase:

"Iskender's insights have changed my life! Not only has he inspired me to go further but also has given me practical advice that was priceless for building and scaling a tech startup. Don't miss any chance to work with him."

Felix Eichler

Co-Founder Userlane

"I had the great pleasure of working with Iskender at Microsoft ScaleUp. Every founder and entrepreneur, no matter how experienced, occasionally needs a sparring partner and coach like Iskender. Regarding founding and scaling, you can learn a lot from him. And will have a lot of fun doing it!"

Rudolf Kuhn

Co-Founder Process Gold (Acquired by UiPath)

"If you want to take a short cut to founding and building your startup, Iskender is your go-to-person. I loved working with him and still benefit from his knowledge and network."

Cornelius Frey

Co-Founder Opinary

"Iskender invested in my former company Contorion which we exited successfully. He was of tremendous help as a VC with a strong operational background. I can't recommend him enough to every founder."

Richard Schwenke

Co-Founder Priceloop, Ex Co-Founder Contorion

"I had many times great experiences working with Iskender! No bullshit, interesting and practical Know-how and input, great people and a lot of fun along the journey. Just do it."

Christian Lutz

Co-Founder Crate.io

"Iskender is a one of its kind accelerator  for founding your startup and making a big success out of it. Consider yourself as the lucky one if you get the chance to work with him."

André Eiras dos Santos

Co-Founder Sword Health

"Iskender's operational help in business building and scaling is beyond valuable. There is a reason why we wanted him to join our seed round as angel investor – despite being fully oversubscribed. Besides his deep expertise he is and always was a super trustful partner for us on our journey.”

Jennifer Phan

Co-Founder Passionfroot

"Iskender's 360 degree knowledge is a blessing for every founder. On top of that, he has an A+ network in the tech scene that will open important doors for you."

Dr. Anna Lukasson-Herzig

Co-Founder Nyris

"Iskender was a key person for me in every stage of my startup's lifecycle: ideation, co-founder matching and team building, foundation, product development, go to market, commercial strategy, and even exit processes. He was my most important ally as a first time founder. Without him, our startup wouldn't have existed and wouldn't have been so successful."

Georg Schacht

Founder updressed
Focus

Target Group: Tech Startup & Digital Agency Founders

SuperStart is your gate to a new life as successful tech entrepreneur if you want to:

Escape the hamster wheels of your corporate job without burning your savings.

Turn into a tech entrepreneur or if you already started building a company.

Build and grow a successful tech startup or digital agency

The time to found a tech startup and digital agency was never better. Never in history you needed less money and less infrastructure to build something big. We’ll help you to explore the opportunities.

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Background

Our innovative coaching and consulting approach is based on:

20 years of experience in the digital industry on top level and in the building and scaling of startups.

Work and partnership with more than 100 innovative tech startups worldwide that raised together hundreds of millions of venture capital.

Insights of globally leading entrepreneurs, leaders, and experts.

Thousands of books, articles, best practices, and exclusive events about the transformation methods of the most successful companies in the world.

Network

Access to the best experts for your startup growth

SuperStart will provide you with access to my network of VCs and serial entrepreneurs.

If you’ll need external support for some implementation areas, you’ll also find the best experts in the market in my top-notch network: online marketers, sales coaches, product managers, engineers, HR experts, agencies, and much more.

Here are just some of the experts in my network:

Mattias Protzmann

Serial Entrepreneur

(Co)-Founder Statista, Content Fleet, JVM Flow and others

Daria Saharova

VC

Founding Partner at World Fund

Thomas Preuß

VC

Managing Partner, Growth Equity at DTCP

Prof. Dr. Matthias Erhardt

Internationally renowned expert for talent development

Founder of the “Autoris Institute for Talent Development”, Harvard, Columbia & IESE Business School Alumnus

Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt

Pricing Strategy Expert

Managing Director at WillingnessToPay, Harvard Alumni

Dr. Benjamin Kreck

Cloud & IT Expert

Global Chief Technology Officer at EY, former CTO at Microsoft

Dr. Jens Hutzschenreuter

Digital Sales Expert

Managing Partner of the Digital Business Group, formerly Groupon and Boston Consulting Group

Emily Becher

Operations Expert

Former SVP MD Head of Samsung Next Global, SVP/GM at AOL, Executive at Yahoo, Stanford Alumni

...and many, many more.

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About Iskender & Louise

Your coaches and consultants:

Iskender Dirik

I’m Founder and Managing Director of the INFINITE DISRUPTION GmbH. I founded (too) many startups. I made (too) many mistakes as a founder. And I worked with many successful startups and scale-ups as venture capitalist and in my leadership positions at leading global companies:

Managing Director/Founding CEO at Microsoft ScaleUp (formerly “Microsoft Ventures Accelerator”), the world’s leading corporate startup accelerator by the world's leading software company.

General Manager Germany, Austria, Switzerland for Wix.com, the globally leading website building tool.

Managing Director and General Manager at Samsung NEXT, the international VC and startup innovation unit of Samsung, the world’s leading consumer electronics company.

Managing Director at Bauer Venture Partners, a 100 Millionen Euro venture capital fund.

Venture Partner at EQT Ventures, a leading international venture fund (>1,2bn EUR assets under management)

Managing Director at C3 Creative Code and Content, a leading European digital agency.

I consulted leading global companies like Porsche, Deutsche Telekom, Axel Springer, Bertelsmann, Telefonica, Otto,Pro7Sat1, and Volkswagen. But more importantly: I worked for 20 years with startups and scale-ups from all over the world like:

I’m looking forward to scaling my impact on startups and founders through my innovative coaching and consulting approach.

“Iskender and I worked together at Samsung Electronics when I was the Company's Chief Innovation Officer and President of Samsung NEXT. He stands out as a rare leader with a disruptive mindset and a genuine desire to share his expertise with others. He led Samsung NEXT in Europe with great resilience and focus while also being flexible and creative. He is engaging and very personable. I'm glad we worked together and hope our paths cross again soon.”

David Eun

Former Chief Innovation Officer of Samsung Electronics
Videos

Some videos with Iskender Dirik:

Keynote at Founders Summit (Entrepreneur's University)

Microsoft for Startups VC Negotiation Workshop

COUP Founder Workshop at Microsoft

Publications

And here are three selected publications of Iskender:

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About Louise

Louise Dirik

I’m Co-Founder and COO of SuperStart. As a coach, I cover mainly people, mindset, personal development, self reflection and positioning related topics of our program. In my former professional career, I supported founders of tech startups from a HR perspective:

Talent Acquisition for leading venture builder

Headhunting for leading executive search firm in the digital space

People Management for VC backed startup

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Your next steps...

Click on the following button, submit your application and book a 15min discovery call with our team.

In the discovery call, we’ll quickly see if you fit to our program. If yes, we’ll offer you a free 30-45 min consulting call as follow up.

In the follow-up call we’ll get deeper into your challenges, clarify your questions and check if we both want to work with each other.

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