Philipp Dreisen

Co-founded people discovery startup SoJ / Aimbot for gamers and recruited a tech team. Designed the UI/UX for mobile/web based on customer feedback and analytics (agile). Scaled the product to +85.000 users without ad spent through growth hacking and PR. Pitched at startup events and raised +100.000€ VC funding from private and institutional investors. References: https://www.getsoj.com http://www.aimbot.gg https://youtu.be/fDBBAwPRxcw https://youtu.be/Lmf4k6oEOW0

EXIST Gründerstipendium supports outstanding founding teams and their promising business idea with financial and operational support over a one year time period. I’ve received the scholarship for the project SoJ / Aimbot at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and are supported by Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing Kalman Graffi, who is heading the lab for “Technology of social networks” at HHU and Vidar Andersen, serial entrepreneur and startup ambassador of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Y Combinator Startup School is a 10-weeks course hosted by Silicon Valley’s premier startup accelerator Y Combinator. The course included live presentations hosted by YC partners and founders/key employees of YC alumni companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Mixpanel etc. where they share their knowledge about how to build a successful startup. Besides that, we receive individual mentorship from Bryan Helmig, CTO & co-founder of Zapier (YC S12) in weekly office hours together with other startups in our group.

Running marketing activities for ESL's major esports events, e.g. ESL One, ESL Pro League and Intel Extreme Masters. Marketing lead for ESL One New York 2016. Sold out Barclays Center with 8,5K event attendees and created a record breaking fan engagement with 122M impressions on social media. Implemented ESL's first customer loyalty program in cooperation with german startup fanmiles. https://www.eslgaming.com/press/esl-one-new-york-generates-record-breaking-digital-engagement-worldwide-oct-1-2

Lean LanchPad is a course for students and early stage startups developed at Stanford and UC Berkeley by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank. The course teaches the basics of entrepreneurial methodologies and skills, e.g. Minimum Viable Product, the Lean Startup, Customer Development, Business Model Canvas and was taught by certified Lean LaunchPad mentor Vidar Andersen in Duesseldorf. I participated as a student with a startup idea while simultaneously writing my bachelor thesis.

Founded an esport team as a teenager and received a contract as a professional gamer. Qualified & competed at the most prestigious tournaments, e.g. Intel Extreme Masters. Led my team to excellence by achieving rank number 1 in Germany and top 5 worldwide.

Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts about the topic: “From idea to a successful startup”. Analyzed and implemented methodologies from successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Steve Blank (customer development methodology) and Eric Ries (lean startup methodology).