Özgür Akın founded AKINSOFT, a Turkish software company, in 1995 while studying at Ege University. AKINSOFT creates ERP and accounting software and has over 120 programs in its portfolio. It has dealerships in 81 cities in Turkey and 12 countries worldwide. The company plans to mass produce robots integrated with artificial intelligence starting in 2015 and increase its research and development staff to 300 employees. AKINSOFT is headquartered in Konya, Turkey and has an additional office in Istanbul.

1. EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF LEFKE
Name and Surname:Cihan Aşan
Department:Computer Engineering
Student ID:283334
Course Code: ENGG437
Course Title: Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Course Subject:Write a essay about a famous entrepreneur
Instructors: Karen Howells

2. THE ENTREPRENEUR’S NAME AND THE
COMPANY’S NAME
 The entrepreneur’s name is Özgür Akın and the
company’s name is AKINSOFT company.

3. WHERE AND WHEN WAS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BORN?
 Özgür Akın was born in 1974 in Konya in Turkey.

4. WHERE DID THEY GO TA SCHOOL?DID THEY
STUDY AFTER SCHOOL?
 Özgür Akın studied Primary and Secondary
Education in Konya in Turkey,that studied Fatih
technical high school on computer programming in
Konya.

5. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
 1992-1994 Ege University-Computer Programming
 1996-1998 Anadolu University-Faculty of Business
Management and Organization
 1998-2002 Selçuk University-Computer
Engineering

6. HIGH LICENSE EDUCATION
 2004-2006 Selçuk University-Industrial Engineering
Finally Özgür Akın study doctorate since from 2010
on Robotics technology in Selçuk University in
Konya.

7. WHEN WAS THEIR COMPANY CREATED?WHY DID
THEY START THIS BUSINESS?
 When Özgür Akın studied Ege University , he
established AKINSOFT company in
1995.AKINSOFT is a software company.He says,
“AKINSOFT company is the rising sun from Anatolia
”.When company established early,it established on
9-10 square meters field.

8. CONTINUED
 Özgür Akın was curiosity to the computer and also
he said that “There is a my destination and I will live
this life, that will win money everytime but How can
I serve the people?,How can I serve my country?”
so Özgür Akın started this business.

9. WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST JOB?
 Özgür Akın’s first computer is Hercules screen and
also there was not harddisk of his computer,but he
still made various programs according to needs
with that computer.

10. WHAT DOES THE COMPANY DO?
 AKINSOFT make ERP(Enterprise Resource
Planning) solutions,accounting programming,
commercial programming,sectoral programming
and web programming.Özgür Akın made WOLVOX
ERP E-Business programming due to her high
license in Selçuk University between 2004 and
2006.Also AKINSOFT company work on Robotics
Technology.

11. HOW ARE THEY PERFORMING COMPARED TO
THEIR COMPETITORS?
 In Turkey,AKINSOFT have dealerships 81 cities.
 In World,AKINSOFT have dealerships 12 countries.
 According to other companies,AKINSOFT company
is very appropiate.For Example machine of sugar
beet is just made by AKINSOFT company in Turkey
and price of that machine is roughly 20.000 Turkish
Lira,but other companies buy roughly 250.000
dolars or thousands of euros.

12. CONTINUED
 Software programmings of AKINSOFT company is
very appropiate and useful, that software
programmings is especially common in Turkey.
 Since 2009 , AKINSOFT company develop
Robotics Technology and that have a anthropoid
robots named as AKINCI-1 but other companies’
anthropoid robots are better than AKINCI-1 in out of
Turkey, but AKINSOFT develop more AKINCI-1.

13. WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE COMPANY NOW?
 For clients, AKINSOFT company has 120 software
programs in archive .
 AKINSOFT has solution partner more than 2000 in
12 countries to serve client.
 In Konya, this company has a plaza, second plaza
of AKINSOFT is in İstanbul in Turkey.
 This company display activities of this company on
media sector with INOVAX magazine.
 In Konya , AKINSOFT became tax holders.

14. WHAT IS THE PLANNING OF THE COMPANY
FOR FUTURE?
 AKINSOFT Company will make mass production of
robots and that will apply artificial intelligence on
these robots in 2015.Also these company aims to
working 300 persons.These company want to
increasing the work of R&D

15. REFERENCE
 www.konyaindex.com/index.php?menu=haberler&i
d=14445
 www.ozgurakin.com.tr/?page_id=113
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf-LC-
rRL+Y&feature=player_embedded