Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

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.

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Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Local businesses in Singapore report up to 5x increase in repeat business , up to 7x increase in fan acquisition rates and 10x increase in word of mouth. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. All they need is a fan page, which they inevitably already have.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

As our investment in Bablacar was ready to close, I again reached out to Olivier to gauge his interest in joining the BlaBlaCar team – strong leadership, significant funding and the opportunity to retain total freedom to build the service in Italy.

Italy 59

Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. Thanks to Aalap Shah, 1o8 ! #5- 5- Two things. Photo Credit: Amy Oestreicher.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 120

VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Latvia Lithuania Russia 109