Mohaç Yücel ve Ersan Özer

On 21th August our guest startup will be co-founder of Magnet ltd which owns uzmantv.com, istanbul.net sites. Ersan Özer is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs in Turkey who have already exited sucessfully from his first startup itiraf.com (confession site) Afterwards he founded Magnet ltd with Gittigidiyor founders (ebay has minority share in GG) they have launced local match making sites Istanbul.net, Ankara,net, Izmir.net, Sevgi.net. These sites focus on city based match making, and similar to match.com. In last years they additionally launched new business uzmantv.com, which is video verison of about.com. Experts answer different questions in all subjects less then 3 minutes. The lack of this model is income. They will soon launch expert academy and sell online education on uzmantv.com. We will be meeting on 21 th August Thursday in Cevahir Shopping Center at Schiller Cafe.

Etohum next meetup will be 21 th August 2008 Thursday at 17:30 -19:30 Cevahir Shopping Center at Schiller Cafe.

Etohum meetup - Ali Servet Eyupoglu (mekanist.net) and Burak Buyukdemir (etohum.com)

This week our guest was Mekanist.net, social review site especially focusing on restaurants in the begining. Ali Servet Eyüpoğlu is the co-founder of this startup. Although traffic jam problem in Istanbul because of Iran’s president Ahmadinejad precaution there were more than 30 people in the meeting. Mekanist.net business model is very similar to yelp.com but Ali Servet told CRM based income model for the firm. He expects to bind restaurants with online CRM tools and will ask montly payments to use these online administrative pages. Restaurants will be able to communicate with their prospective customers using these tools. They will be also able to use online marketing tools. He additionally told that they will not be focusing on events. Their priority is social reviews. In next weeks they will rearrange their entering pages for social purposes. Participants were more aggresive this time, they have strongly questioned him. Considiring his age and experience level, he successfully managed to answer most of the questions.

This week we launched etohum web tv with televidyon.com (revision 3 business model) All guest startups will be online after meetups. There will be interviews with meetup participants about Turkish internet sector and their business. Etohum.tv is in Turkish but hopefully we may add subtitle when we find more sponsor to etohum.

Last week our guest were two founder brothers of Octeth.com. Their main business is email marketing software oempro. They additionally serve hosted solution of oempro called sendloop.com. PreviewMyEmail.com has been recently launched, software was developed by them. Moreover, wridea.com have 30.000 subscribers which organizes ideas and enables them to share with your friends. Mert and Cem Hürtürk brothers started their firm 9 years ago. Mert is 26, Cem is 29 years old. They both call themselves lazy students. Mert still continues university education in Bilgi Uni. Cem graduated from Computer engineering department of Kultur Uni. There are 5 people working in their firm, 3 in office 2 outsourced US and India. They have 15.000 cutomers who have already bouht oempro and 10.000 customers using sendloop.

This week we recorded etohum meeting in etohum.tv which will be published under televidyon.com. We had short interviews with participants about Turkish internet sector. These videos will be ready next week. Hopefully we will announce our next guest speaker today or early tommorrow. Meeting will be probably in Profilo Shopping Center in Schiller Cafe at 17:30 - 19:30 Thursday on 14th August.

Octeth Founders Mert & Cem Hürtürk brothers

Mert Hurturk on Techcrunch - Webrazzi meetup

On 7th of August our guest startup speakers will be Octeth.com. Mert and Cem Hurturk two brothers founded this company in early 2000s. Their main focus is email software called “oempro” sold more than 15.000 customers in last 8 years.

Wridea.com is an international project “a web service first to avoid ideas being forgotten, then to organize and improve those ideas by giving you the opportunity to share your ideas with friends and necessary tools to improve your ideas by yourself and individually.” in their words

Our next meeting will be in Profilo Shopping center on 7th of August at Sciller cafe. We will hopefully change the location in next weeks.

Serdar Kuzuloğlu co-founder of televidyon.com

Last Wednesday on 30th of July we met with Serdar Kuzuloğlu. He is co-founder of televidyon.com revision3 business model in Turkey. Kuzuloğlu who is technology editor in Radikal newspaper additionally worked in Doğan Corp. He left this position this August in order to focus more on televidyon.com. There were more than 60 people in this meetup. Timur Sırt and Serdar Kuzuloğlu started teknosohbet.tv a year ago. It was a chat web television about technology. In last months the 3 founder have converted their business plan to web television platform for all internet users. Anyone who will continuously produce web videos may open their channell on televidyon.com. Timur is technology editor in Sabah newspaper which is one of the 5 most selling national wide. Şükrü Andaç is the third founder of the MYK-media. He works in another newspaper Milliyet as a technology editor. Serdar is in charge of the firm. They have 4 different technology channels now but will broaden their focus on different subjects such as music, food and movies etc. We are planning to change the cafe for next meetings. Although its central location there is a high noise and it’s hard to listen the guest speakers. Furthemore the staff here is not hospitable.

Profilo shopping center - Schiller cafe - Etohum meetup