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How important is a team for a start-up?

In the start-up culture, teams play an important role. Start-ups, where different ideas always come to the forefront, grow faster with well-structured teams and the sense of belonging of employees increases day by day. So, how can a correct team be formed? How can start-up development be ensured with the right teams? We have compiled the questions about team building in the following content.

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What is Seed Investment?

Startups are projects that aim to provide solutions to specific problems and achieve rapid development in a short period of time. With the development of startups within the problem and solution concept, they easily reach a wide audience and attract the attention of investors. The aim of startup investments, which are realized through certain processes, is to develop and improve dynamics such as team, technology, and marketing. The stages of startup investments that start with pre-seed and continue with seed investment are as follows:

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Is Metaverse a Trend? How Much Can It Affect the Future?

We first encountered the Metaverse concept, which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defined as the "next generation internet," in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash book published in 1992. In his book Snow Crash, Stephenson based the Metaverse theory on the triangle of augmented reality, virtual reality, and the internet environment. The pandemic period and quarantine measures that significantly affected the years 2020 and 2021 pushed individuals to be more online, while Facebook changing its name to "Meta" in the fourth quarter of 2021 raised interest in the Metaverse concept to higher levels.

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How Should an Elevator Pitch Be?

Asansör konuşması olarak da adlandırılan elevator pitch; start-up’ların markalarını, ürünlerini ya da girişimlerini potansiyel yatırımcılara tanıtırken yaptıkları merak uyandıran kısa sunumdur.

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What Makes a Good MVP?

An MVP, short for Minimum Viable Product, is a model of your main product that is produced with minimal effort in order to obtain feedback from your target audience and enter the market.

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Startup Marketing 101- Marketing Guide for Entrepreneurs

Startups prioritize customer relationships from the moment they launch their MVPs. Due to the low budgets and the limited number of paying users, startups tend to be conservative on the marketing side. Therefore, entrepreneurs have to determine a marketing strategy that can achieve maximum efficiency with a low budget.

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How Startupfon Spent 2022

After establishing its fund and investing in four startups in 2021, Startupfon continued to invest at a rapid pace in 2022. The fund invested in a total of 10 more startups, bringing its portfolio to 14.

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Co-Investment 101: Co-Investment Guide

The world of investing is full of many different strategies and methods. Investors are constantly looking for new approaches to capitalize on opportunities that offer high return potential. The co-invest or co-investment model, which has become more popular in recent years, allows more than one investor to combine their capital and make a joint investment in the same project.

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Co-Investment in the Global

Co-investment is a strategy that has gained popularity among investors in recent years. This strategy involves combining the resources of multiple investors to invest in the same opportunity to diversify their portfolios and potentially increase their returns.

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Venture Capital 101: Venture Capital

Venture capital funds (VC Funds) are pooled investment vehicles that provide capital to startups in exchange for equity. At Startupfon-Blog, we talked about venture capital strategy, venture capital fund and how it makes money for you this week. A vital source of finance for high-growth startups worldwide, venture capital also plays an important role in promoting job creation and economic productivity. Many of the world's largest companies (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.) started with the funding and advice of venture capitalists (VCs) and now continue to account for almost half of the IPOs in the US. Venture capitalists make risky investments in startups in hopes of great returns. With the rapid growth in the industry in recent years, more VCs than ever are continuing to invest more capital.

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Entrepreneurship 101

Startup; It is a name given to initiatives that use all technological possibilities to produce solutions to problems and respond to needs and develop ideas, products or services with comprehensive R&D studies. In Turkish, the terms "enterprise" or "new venture" are used. The word "startup", which has been adopted all over the world and has become a universal definition, is thought to have originated in Silicon Valley, the popular place of entrepreneurs, in the early 2010s. When we make a literal translation of the word, it means "to begin". In fact, the term "starting" gives a correct idea for the definition of startup. Because startup is universally used for “companies that start from scratch and develop and grow”.

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Entrepreneurship 101: VC Financing and Beyond

A venture funded by Venture Capital is targeted to reach certain milestones. This venture phase begins when you take your first Series A round, and each round is usually between 18 and 24 months. Your first round is crucial in setting up a fundraising foundation that can help attract future investments. You enter this stage when a Series A investor believes your company has a great product or service and you have a plan and ability to scale.

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Fintech Initiatives: Digital Transformation of Finance

Dealing with sometimes slow and sometimes complex transactions can be cumbersome in the traditional financial world. However, fintech startups are leading the digital transformation of finance by changing this situation. Initiatives in areas such as payment technologies, investment consultancy, blockchain-based solutions and insurance technologies; makes people's financial transactions easier and more accessible.

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Venture Investing Glossary

This glossary aims to make sense of start-up terminology for those who are interested in the world of entrepreneurship. From angel investors to MVP, from incubators to exit strategies, it covers terms common in the start-up universe and their meanings. I wish it to guide those who want to move forward in this exciting and dynamic universe by opening the doors of the entrepreneurship world.

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Legal Stages of the Startup

Startup law is a system that has emerged for the purpose of enabling entrepreneurs to operate in accordance with the law, has close relations with many legal regulations that shape commercial life, and regulates the relations between the entrepreneur and the investor, and both the entrepreneur and investor parties and the legal order.

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Game Industry in Turkey: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The gaming industry stands out as a rapidly growing and developing industry around the world. Turkey, on the other hand, has started to shape the entrepreneurship ecosystem by taking serious steps in the field of game development in recent years. Still, the industry has difficulties both in Turkey and globally. According to StartupsWatch's data, Hypercasual concept game startups, which were established with an increasing momentum since 2018, started to decline after peaking in 2021, and as of the first quarter of 2023, they achieved the lowest rate of establishments in the last 5 years. So what was the reason for this change in the gaming industry?

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3 Factors that Ensure the Success of Your Startup

While there are many factors that influence the success of startups, three key elements can be decisive. Innovation, good timing and effective teamwork are at the heart of a successful startup. Innovative ideas make a difference in a competitive market, while the right timing is critical in capturing market needs and delivering solutions.

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Game Theory: An Analytical Tool for Game Developers

Game theory puts an emphasis on analyzing the human brain and simplifying the complex decisions it make when playing games. This data is crucial in how to structure your game and make it fun. The game theory emphasizes the philosophical concept of "Nash Equilibrium".

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