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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

And as I like to say, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” I know that I had things easier as a new VC because I came into the business in 2007 when the market was frenzied like today but an order-of-magnitude less so and the world wasn’t living in public.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

I spend 70% of my time in the US and for those discussions I'm primary looking at speed (connection above), mobile penetration (yes, 2007 was the year of mobile!), The lowest impact of a search engine is in the groceries category (I wonder why? :)), and the highest, in Turkey, is in the computer hardware category.

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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today. One is slightly better and priced at $1 million, which you know from Zillow is what they paid for it in 2007. Another is slightly worse but priced at $700k and was bought in 2007 for $1 million. Ready to talk turkey.

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Business Leader Committed to Eliminating Single Use Shopping Bags

Hearpreneur

One client came to us with the problem of creating a bag that could hold and protect odd-sized products, like turkeys or cakes, from the store to their ultimate destination. This was back in 2007. We also take it a step further by developing unique styles and functions.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I don’t believe in cold turkey transition. Back in 2007 when I wrote my book Becoming Your Own Boss in 12 Months the first time, I started calling myself America’s number one small business expert all the way back in 2007. You want to fake it until you make it, you want to walk in there like you own the room until you do.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.