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Serkan Ünsal
Eastern Mediterranean UniversityComputer Engineering Department
Entrepreneurship in Digital World
About me
About me
twitter: @serkanunsal
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Entrepreneurship
Digital Entrepreneurship ?
Risk owners who invests in Mobile, Web and technology projects!
Digital Entrepreneurship Components
Innovation
Investor
Entrepreneur
Innovation
creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets,
governments, and society.Wikipedia
Angel Investor Venture Capital Private EquityFamily & Friends
Investor
Investor
Entrepreneur
makes his/her own way Just ride the car
Common Characteristics of Entrepreneur
work on uncertain environments
patient
manage & lead team
risk taker
commercial intelligence
Types of Digital Entrepreneurs
dealer
innovator
businessman techenforced
Motivations Behind it
Internal Reasons
External ReasonsNot finding a jobUnsuitable with Corporate LifeBored with Corp. LifeBored by bossTo get richTo want entrepreneur’s lifestyle
seeing common characteristics of entrepreneurs in yourself
Tips & Do’s & Dont’s
Know Yourself 1
I did I can
I want
X
Know Yourself 2
are you good at taking risk ?
Myths about Entrepreneurship
x born to be an entrepreneur
x entrepreneurs are richer than corporate workers
x risk is very high for every entrepreneurs
x all entrepreneurs make disruptive innovations
x successful entrepreneurs has always good CVs
x successful entrepreneurs has good business plans
x entrepreneurship is directly related with age
x if idea is unique and good, project will not fail!
x entrepreneurs are happier than corporate workers!
Why you should not be an entrepreneur ?
• if you think that it’s show-off business
• if you think that it’s the best way to be rich!
• if you’re not a risk taker
• if you have a family and you have a stable life and your family don’t want to take risk
• if you have no capital
• if you don’t like your company
• if you don’t want to manage and lead teams
Why you should go to Investors ?
investoryour project
Survival Guide
• Lower your expectations
• don’t go to investors when you think that it’s the only chance to survive
• be flexible
• don’t take critisicm personally
• know what you want from investors
When to go to an Investor ?
• best time to go to an investor is when investor has searching for an entrepreneur to invest!
• when an investor exits from another project, he/she has some funds to invest!
• know which investor invests in which markets!
What Investor wants ?
you team market idea
team
teamgroup
engineer
an engineer can make a venture a king or a sink
don’t try to learn everything!
just learn learning & researching
make a tiny working project to proove that you can finish a project yourself.
Be different!
if you’re not a Rambo, then be MacGyver and combine useful things, people, ideas...
Combine powers!
reading to much or working too much is not related with success!
if you’re late to catch the train, run or wait for the next!
although you’re doing everything right, you still can be in trouble!
if your team is not so competitive, then don’t enter big businesses!
if you’re the only one seeing somewhere, either you lost your way, or you found somewhere!
if you want to be rich right now, then go to casino! if you want to be rich today, make clone businesses! if you want to be rich tomorrow, make innovations!
be a team, not a group!
don’t forget that you’re not the one thinking that idea!
if you’re on the wrong way, don’t forget to leave that business!
don’t forget to look around!
thanks
@serkanunsal