Building and growing a startup is an overwhelming challenge. With me, you finally have a trusted partner at your side. I help you to found your own tech startup and to get to product-market fit. And beyond.
With my help you’ll get closer to your dream: independence with your very own, successfully scaling company. Faster and with less pain.
Iskender Dirik is a VC, Entrepreneur, and Executive having worked for some of the most innovative tech firms in the world:
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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.”
"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."
"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."
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
The time to found a tech startup 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.
25 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.
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:
(Co)-Founder Statista, Content Fleet, JVM Flow and others
Founding Partner at World Fund
Managing Partner, Growth Equity at DTCP
Founder of the “Autoris Institute for Talent Development”, Harvard, Columbia & IESE Business School Alumnus
Managing Director at WillingnessToPay, Harvard Alumni
Global Chief Technology Officer at EY, former CTO at Microsoft
Managing Partner of the Digital Business Group, formerly Groupon and Boston Consulting Group
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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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.”
Keynote at Founders Summit (Entrepreneur's University)
Microsoft for Startups VC Negotiation Workshop
COUP Founder Workshop at Microsoft
E-Book
Visual Whitepaper
Slide-Deck + Article
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
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.
The price for the SuperStart coaching depends on where you stand today and what you want to achieve. Thus, apply for the coaching and we’ll clarify these questions in our consulting call. You can ask us there everything you want to know about our program.
SuperStart is for founders who (1) want to build a tech startup or agency, but haven’t started building yet, and (2) for founders who are already in the pre-seed or seed stage and are trying to get to product-market fit.
We’re solely addressing founders. If you have co-founders, you can participate in our program with your whole founding team.
You should be strongly motivated or should already have founded a tech startup or agency and we need to be sure that we can help you significantly. What we expect from you: That you are serious about funding and growing your startup and are committed to implementing the insights from our program. We want to make our participants more successful and that only works if we’re all on the same page.
We can help you either in English or German.
