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blog.expodea » Blog Archive » The Next Web’e Türkiye pazarı hakkında yazı
[...] vermek fazla verimli olmuyor. Bu sebeple The Next Web‘den ve Ernst-Jan ile konuştuk ve bu yazıyı yayınlamaya karar verdik. Umarım hoşunuza gider. Yazar/Author: Şekip Can Gökalp [...]
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Yeni bir iş, yeni bir şehir; Netlog ile İstanbul’a dönüyorum | Şekip Can Gökalp
[...] ayında The Next Web için Türkiye piyasası ile ilgili yazdığım bir yazıya, Netlog Türkiye ve Ortadoğu sorumlusu Timothy Bataillie “Türkiye’de Netlog da var, [...]
Thanks for this update Sekip!
Why do Turkish start-ups often have a leaf or a tree in their logos? Is it a way to create trust, since it’s a connection with nature?
Thanks EJ.
The thing about trust/nature can be true. Which startups do you mean anyways? Yonja and?
Şekip,
Look at all three logos. Yonja, Etohum and Kindo all use leafs/trees.
Edit: *Woooooppsss! Should have taken a closer look before replying ;-)*
Hi Tjeerd,
Etohum is an event pretty similar to Seedcamp and Kindo is from UK.
a nice overview on the recent development of the turkish internet market. hope this article attracts more foreign investors to our market, still it has a huge potential
I’ve heard Netlog (http://netlog.com) is pretty big in Turkey, can you back up that statement?
Yes. Webrazzi (major new economy blog in Turkey) wrote once (03.2008) that they’ve got more than 4 million users in Turkey. At the time of the post, this meant 12,5% of the total user-base (of netlog). However, I don’t know of an office or a representative of Netlog in Turkey, but they serve a Turkish version.
Netlog is indeed pretty big in Turkey. We have today 4,5 million members.
As from next week there will be al representative of Netlog in Turkey, being me :-)
cool =)
“Let’s go south of the Netherlands: Belgium. This even smaller country is home to Netlog, an extremely successful social network that is offering 8 different languages for its 29.8 million users and counts 4 billion page views every month. When Netlog wanted to expand in Turkey, they hired two students to translate the site for 1000 dollar. It took them a week and four months later the Turkish version has 2.5 million users.” from: http://thenextweb.org/2007/12/17/the-big-book-of-successful-european-social-networks/
This is a more than interesting article on yet another overseen but BIG web market.
I demand more of this ;).
Hey Sekip,
Sounds like there is plenty going in the Turkish
internet market, thanks for giving us that insight!
Just wondering, are any of these Turkish companies
founded by women?
Linde
http://www.thenextwomen.com
Hello Linde,
women play an important role in the new economy in Turkey. Not the startups mentioned in the post, but there are some other companies which were co-founded by women. There are far more men then women in the business, but it is better then most of other sectors, I think.
Very cool article, Sekip! I know why I wanted you on the team :)
A bit skeptical but why Grou.ps is not mentioned here? Looks like a desperate conflict of interest with the biased author of the article.
hi all,
thank you sekip for our market scope details.turkish market is really big.and Linde http://www.anneyiz.biz owner is a woman also she works with her son:)also there is some women in the market as a entrepreneur.
Thanks for this update Sekip!
turkey will be one of most popular market between euroaisa.