Limango steps in cosmetics and personal care vertical with Limango Pink
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on February 6, 2012
The pieces are falling into place in Turkish private shopping market and vertical websites become the new area where competition is getting hot. Otto Group’s Turkish private shopping platform Limango prefers to compete by making new parts of its initial website, instead of launching new websites. The new part focuses on cosmetics and personal care [...]
A start-up story: UzmanTV caught profitability in 4.5 years
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on January 17, 2012
I believe that early start-up owners should write a book about their story, even a blog, in Turkey. Successful start-up owners should transfer their knowledge and experience on blogs, just as thesis and studies transfer know-how in academic career. This story was inspired by Ersan Özer, who started to write his blog again. Ersan Özer’s article [...]
The Results are in for Qualcomm Mobile Business Idea and Application Competition
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on January 10, 2012
Qualcomm’s contest looking for mobile start-up owners “Mobile Business Idea and Application Contest” is over and the results are in. A total of 16 mobile business ideas made it to the finals to be selected by the jury on December 21. The competition gives a total cash prize of 50,000 TL and the awards were [...]
Luxybox.com: Çağlar Erol Invests in Birchbox “Box” Model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 15, 2011
Personal care product, cosmetics and perfume industries bear very big opportunities in e-trading world, which is dominated by women and attract both users and investors as a result. Lately the industry has inspired e-trading start-ups as the investment Balerin.com has received, and took it a step further with Markafoni’s sister company MissPera. As the driving [...]
eCift.com Gets 3 M Euros from 3TS Capital
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 9, 2011
eÇift is a “serious relationship website” which was founded by sevenload founders Tamer and Akgün Kulmaç and Janset Çelik, and it has received a new investment. 3TS Capital is the 2009 December-born service’s 2. investor, following BrainsToVentures. 3TS Capital Partners invests in companies based in Central and Eastern Europe, and the company has made an investment [...]
Tamindir.com Renews and Gets More Powerful
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 8, 2011
Devrim Demirel, founder of Beriltech, had invested in Tamindir.com, one of the most popular program download websites in Turkey, and given the news of upcoming developments. Tamindir.com caught attention with its recent news a short while ago, and we have gained some information from Devrim Demirel about them. Tamindir.com, with its founder Caner Bayraktar, is [...]
Bebekbezi.com: OZN Medya Focuses on Diapers and Other Baby Products After Evim.net
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 2, 2011
A new player is joining the diaper market which is expected to be a 900-million-dollar market in 2010. Having stepped in e-trading with Evim.net, OZN Medya has recently introduced Bebekbezi.com. Bebekbezi.com could be the most important domain name that OZN Medya owns in the area of e-trading. The average for Google results for baby diaper [...]
BeyazKutu.com: A New, Private E-trading Site Joins iLab Family
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 1, 2011
The number of private shopping sites was on a big rise until lately. When the big players came to the front stage, this increase stopped and now we only get to talk about the big players. Beyazkutu.com got noticed more and more at this point and became known in the market with iLab investment. Hamdi [...]
Christian H. Gallardo Talked About ‘The Power of the Graph’ı in Webrazzi Summit
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
The last guest of Webrazzi Summit 2011 was Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Facebook’s Head of International Business Development. Gallardo mentioned about the power of Facebook’s social network structure and Turkey’s interest in Facebook in his speech titled “The Power of the Graph”. Gallardo told Turkey’s large internet ecosystem has been further highlighted with global investment companies [...]
Twitter For Good: Changing the World on Twitter
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
Claire Diaz Ortiz from Twitter was at Webrazzi Summit 2011 via video conferencing from the US. Ortiz, the author of Twitter for Good, said that Twitter is not merely a social platform but a news sharing tool, adding that the shares on Twitter have a tremendous impression and how this can be used for a good return. Ortiz [...]