3. About me
us.dakick.com (BETA)
twitter: @serkanunsal
4. About
Semantic Based Personalized Event Recommendation Site.
• Founded in 2010
• Got Investment Found by Aksoy Internet Ventures (Owner of
sahibinden.com)
• Beta Launched in April 2011.
• 6 people (2 from EMU-Computer Engineering)
• Commercial launch in November 2011 in Turkey and US
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8. Innovation
creation of better or more effective products, processes,
technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets,
governments, and society.
Wikipedia
9. Investor
Family & Friends Angel Investor Venture Capital Private Equity
11. Entrepreneur
makes his/her own way Just ride the car
12. Common Characteristics of Entrepreneur
work on uncertain environments
patient
manage & lead team
risk taker
commercial intelligence
13. Types of Digital Entrepreneurs
dealer enforced businessman tech
innovator
14. Motivations Behind it
Internal Reasons
seeing common characteristics of
entrepreneurs in yourself
External Reasons
Not finding a job
Unsuitable with Corporate Life
Bored with Corp. Life
Bored by boss
To get rich
To want entrepreneur’s lifestyle
18. Myths about Entrepreneurship
x born to be an entrepreneur
x entrepreneurs are richer than corporate workers
x risk is very high for every entrepreneurs
x all entrepreneurs make disruptive innovations
x successful entrepreneurs has always good CVs
x successful entrepreneurs has good business plans
x entrepreneurship is directly related with age
x if idea is unique and good, project will not fail!
x entrepreneurs are happier than corporate workers!
19. Why you should not be an entrepreneur ?
• if you think that it’s show-off business
• if you think that it’s the best way to be rich!
• if you’re not a risk taker
• if you have a family and you have a stable life and your
family don’t want to take risk
• if you have no capital
• if you don’t like your company
• if you don’t want to manage and lead teams
21. Survival Guide
• Lower your expectations
• don’t go to investors when you think that it’s the only
chance to survive
• be flexible
• don’t take critisicm personally
• know what you want from investors
22. When to go to an Investor ?
• best time to go to an investor is when investor has
searching for an entrepreneur to invest!
• when an investor exits from another project, he/she has
some funds to invest!
• know which investor invests in which markets!
25. engineer
an engineer can make a venture a king or a sink
don’t try to learn everything!
just learn learning & researching
make a tiny working project to proove that you can finish a project
yourself.
32. if your team is not so competitive, then don’t enter big businesses!
33. if you’re the only one seeing somewhere, either you lost your way,
or you found somewhere!
34. if you want to be rich right now, then go to casino!
if you want to be rich today, make clone businesses!
if you want to be rich tomorrow, make innovations!