Aralik 2012 Startup Turkey sunumum

1. Entrepreneurship 101
Emre Sokullu

2. Rule #1
Learn to speak English!

3. Rule #2
It won’t be easy

4. Pre-GROU.PS Times

5. GROU.PS 2009

6. and today...

7. Success is tolerance to
failure

8. Success is tolerance to
failure
Emre Burak Turhan Mehmet Sokullu

9. Success is getting what
you want. Happiness is
liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

10. Other Rules
• Get a co-founder.
• Investors (and board) are important.
Choose wisely.
• Reward your early employees fairly.
• HR is important.
• Good talent doesn’t grow on trees.You
can’t find A-players on kariyer.net

11. Other Rules (cntd.)
• Make money from day #1.
• You’ll fail. Get used to it.
• What’s very dangerous is not to evolve. -
Jeff Bezos
• A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did
well under pressure. - Henry Kissinger
• Stretch dollars.Teknokent. Great CFO.

12. The future belongs to
those who believe in
the beauty of their
dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt

13. Starting a company is
like throwing yourself
off a cliff and assembling
a plane on the way
down
Reid Hoffman

14. Life isn’t about balance,
because balance is
perfection. Rather, it’s
about catching the ball
before it hits the floor.
Carol Bartz

15. Build courage when
courage seems to fail.
Regain faith when there
seems to be little cause for
faith. Create hope when
hope becomes forlorn.
General Douglas MacArthur

16. I never learned how to
tune a harp or play upon a
lute; but I know how to
raise a small and
inconsiderable city to glory
and greatness
Themistocles

17. Ben yanmazsam, sen
yanmazsan, nasil
cikacak karanliklar
aydinliga.
Nazim Hikmet

18. VC’ler neye bakar?• Integrity
• Passion
• Experience
• Knowledge (domain expertise)
• Skill (=complete team)
• Leadership
• Commitment
• Vision
• Realism

19. What’s in a
presentation?
• Company Logo
• Business Overview
• Management Team
• Market
• Product
• Business Model
• Strategic Rel.s
• Competition
• Barriers to Entry
• Financial Overview