This document discusses keys to success in entrepreneurship, focusing on innovation-driven entrepreneurship. It contrasts innovation-driven enterprises with traditional small businesses, noting that innovation-driven enterprises focus on global markets, scale jobs that don't need to be local, and pursue exponential growth through losing money initially if successful. It emphasizes agility in teams, testing assumptions through prototypes, and using scrum for agile software development. Finally, it encourages entrepreneurs to dream big but start small, be agile using scrum principles, and learn from success stories shared on the YFYI website.

1. Agility, IDE, Lean, Scrum, YFYI
Keys to be successful in Entrepreneurship
A. Gokhan Celebi, 01.03.2017
NILCAT / BC WORKSHOP II

2. Innovation Driven
Entrepreneurship
ODTÜ TEKNOKENT

3. Innovation
Invention
X
Commercialization

4. Execution

5. Innovation Driven Entrepreurship*
Small/Medium Business Enterprise
Entrepreneurship
Innovation Driven Enterprise
Entrepreneurship
Local & Regional Markets only Focus on Global/Regional Markets
Innovation is not necessary and not an
competitive advantage
Based on innovation (Tech., Business
Model/Process )
Non Scalable Jobs (restaurant, dry
cleaner, etc.)
Scalable Jobs. Do not have to be
performed locally.
Family Businesses or businesses with
little external money
More diverse ownership base, including
external capital owners
Growth is linear
Growth starts with losing money, if
successful exponential growth follows.
* http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2013/05/a-tale-of-two-entrepreneurs-new-kauffman-
paper-highlights-different-types-and-their-roles-in-economy

6. Innovation Driven Entrepreurship*
* http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2013/05/a-tale-of-two-entrepreneurs-new-kauffman-
paper-highlights-different-types-and-their-roles-in-economy

7. Innovation Driven Enterprises

8. Innovation Driven Enterprises

9. Lean-Minimum Viable Product

10. Agility-Startup Management

11. Agility
- Team
- Testing and pivoting (Assumptions)
- Prototype
- Sales and Marketing Strategy

12. Agility-Fail Fast

13. Scrum
- Agile software Development framework for
managing product development.
- Principle of Scrum is during product
development, the customers can change their
minds about what they want and need-often
called requirements volatility.

15. YFYI-Success Stories

16. Dream Big
Start Small
Be Agile
(Scrum)
ODTÜ
YFYİ
YFYI

17. YFYI

18. yfyi.com
Be Agile, Be Scrum, Be Lean, Be IDE & Be YFYI