Company: Becker-IT Beratung e.K.
Founder: Pascal Becker
Date of establishment: November 8, 2024
Industry and company: IT

What drives you? What is your motto?
Our motto is that IT should not be expensive, as all companies today cannot do without IT. We tackle this task every day with our partners for our customers.

What is your start-up about and what makes it special?
From the very beginning, my start-up was about ensuring that our customers receive the best service at the best price. In my work in the industry, I have seen a wide variety of practices from other service providers and realized that they are taking advantage of people's lack of knowledge. We want to change that and see it as our responsibility to do so.

What are your first successes?
From an economic perspective, it is a success that we are growing every year and that our figures and number of employees are increasing, allowing us to expand. From a human perspective, it is a success that we are now able to communicate our goal in the media, such as the Wiesbadener Kurier newspaper. 

What is your professional background?
I started working with IT when I was 11 years old. Some time later, after spending a lot of time studying on my own, I started working in the field at the age of 14 and switched between two employers between the ages of 14 and 15, but was eventually hired by Germany's largest IT service provider and looked after national and international customers until I was 16. Then I started my own business and, due to the company's situation, dropped out of school in October 2025 to focus fully on the company.

What prompted you to start your own business?
My motivation was, on the one hand, the realization that people's ignorance is being exploited and capitalized on. On the other hand, I wanted to enable people to work—not on the basis of their origin, skin color, or gender, but on the basis of their knowledge and skills.

Who advised you, who are your helpers and mentors? My friends
supported my project from the very beginning, and most of them now work for me. In the meantime, a wide variety of people have left school early or changed their path for this company, which is of course an incredibly wonderful feeling when so many people believe in an idea.

How did you experience your first days as a founder?
My first thoughts were classic joy. After I held my business license in my hand and went back to school, I felt incredible. I missed the first two hours of class that day, but it was definitely worth it.

What was your biggest challenge and how did you overcome it? From the very beginning
, the biggest challenge has been and continues to be finding customers. A company without sales and cash flow is doomed to failure, which is why this aspect must be considered from the outset.

How do you draw attention to your company? What is your best marketing idea?
We advertise through satisfied customers, whether it's the vet next door or a large enterprise. Our advertising budget is small because we prioritize other aspects.

How did you finance your start-up?
We started with a €0 investment and have remained investment-free ever since.

What dream would you still like to realize?
I want the name Becker-IT to stand for quality and the best service, and we try to live up to this statement every day.

Please complete the following sentence: If I had more time, I would... reach out
to even more customers and finally get them out of the IT cost trap.

What is your special tip: What would you recommend to founders?
Even if it looks like everything is over, never give up. In the worst case, the company will go bankrupt, but that's not the end.