Startnowhow - Entrepreneurial Ecoosystem in Turkey
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INTRODUCTION
StartNowHow
• Open seminarseries for active and prospective entrepreneurs
• 10 sessions on monthly basis until summer 2016
• Covers relevant theoretical and practical aspects of entrepreneurship
• Based on lecture „entrepreneurship“ @Bogazici University
• Based on experiences of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and consultants
• Each session with guest speaker (entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, etc.)
• Language: English / Turkish
• Thursdays 17.15h – 19.30h
• Next session: Mon 15.October 2015
• Certificate provided for participants joining at least 70% of the sessions
• Early registration for each session required (eventbrite), limited capacity!
• Priority for regular participants
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INTRODUCTION
StartNowHow - SeminarTopics (preliminary)
1. Thu 1.10.15: The entrepreneurial ecosystem in Turkey
2. Thu 15.10.15. Entrepreneurship as a profession
3. Thu 12.11.15: Opportunity recognition and evaluation
4. Thu 10.12.15: Planning, developing and testing a business model
5. Thu 7.1.16: Market and competitor research
6. Thu 11.2.16 (tbc): Financial planning for startups
7. Thu 10.3.16 (tbc): Digital Marketing planning and control
8. Thu 14.4.16 (tbc): Funding the startup – stage financing for ventures
9. Thu 12.5.16 (tbc): The investment process – pitching, negotiations and
termsheet
10. Thu 9.6.16 (tbc): Success and failure as an entrepreneur
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ENTREPRENEURIALECOSYSTEM
Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship: Theprocess of creating something new with value by
devoting the necessary time and effort, assuming the accompanying financial,
psychic, and social risks and uncertainties, and receiving rewards of monetary
and personal satisfaction.
(Hisrich / Peters / Shepherd, Entrepreneurship, p.6)
• Creating something new of value
• Devotion of necessary time and effort
• Receiving the rewards of being an entrepreneur
• Assuming the necessary risks and uncertainties
• Entrepreneurship – the short definition: Entrepreneurship is the process of
changing ideas into commercial opportunities and creating value.
(Leach / Melicher, Entrepreneurial Finance, p. 7)
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ENTREPRENEURIALECOSYSTEM
Economic Relevance ofEntrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship became relevant research and policy area (economics, politics)
• OECD-model (OECD-Eurostat entrepreneurship indicators program, since 2006)
• (taken from: OECD, Measuring Entrpreneurship: A Collection of Indicators, 2009,
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/27/44069965.pdf)
• Global Entrepreneurship Model (GEM) measures and compares entrepreneurship
conditions and developments on international level (http://www.gemconsortium.org)
• http://www.gemconsortium.org/docs/download/2200(2011 report)
• Due to economic relevance, intensive academic and policy work for promoting
entrepreneurship (Examples: Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, pp.229 ff.; Lerner,
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, etc.)
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OUTLOOK
StartNowHow - Literature
•Bowers, Brent, 8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs, Doubleday, New York, NY 2008
• Bygrave, William D. / Zacharaiks, Andrew, The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, 4th ed., Wiley,
Hoboken, NJ 2010
• Drucker, Peter F., Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 1st ed. 1985, reprinted 2010, Elsevier, Kiddlington,
2010
• Harper, Stephen C., Extraordinary Entrepreneurship: The Professional’s Guide to Starting an Exceptional
Enterprise, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2005
• Hirshberg, Meg Cadoux, For Better or for Work, All Inc., New York, NY 2012
• Hisrich, Robert D. / Peters, Michael P. / Shepherd, Dean A., Entrepreneurship, 9th ed., McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY 2012
• Kuratko, Donald F., Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice, 8th ed., South-Western, Mason, OH 2009
• Leach, J. Chris / Melicher, Ronald W., Entrepreneurial Finance, International Edition, 4th ed., South-
Western, Hampshire 2012
• Osterwalder, Alexander / Pigneur, Yves, Business Model Generation, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2010
• Ries, Eric, The Lean Startup, Crown Business, New York, NY 2011
• Smith, Janet Kiholm / Smith, Richard L. / Bliss, Richard T.,Entrepreneurial Finance – Strategy, Valuation,
and Deal Structure, Standford University Press, Stanford, CA 2011
• Stokes, David / Wilson, Nick, Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship, 6th ed., South-Western,
Hampshire 2010
• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable, revised ed., Penguin,
London 2010
• Timmons, Jeffry A. / Spinelli, Stephen, New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, 9th
ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, NY 2011
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OUTLOOK
StartNowHow - Outlook
•Please mail us if you are interested in today‘s presentation or literature hints
• Next Seminar: „Entrepreneurship as a Profession“
• Thursday, 15.10.2015, 17.15 – 19.30h
• Don‘t forget to register early (eventbrite) - capacity is limited!
• Priority for participants / registrants from today‘s session
• General rule: Allocation of seats according to participation
• Regular participation = certificate (70% participation)
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