Another Etohum meetup was held on 25th October at Genç Girişimciler Kulübü.

Genç Girişimciler Kulubü is an organization for young Turkish entrepreneurs.

The main topic of the meetup was “Will 2009 bring new opportunities for Internet entrepreneurs”. The meeting was fruitful, and we were quite satisfied with the great interest from the young Turkish entrepreneurs.

A special etohum meetup was held on 30th of October. This time Mackolik hosted etohum. We listened the story of uygulamapazari.com from its owner Erdem Yurdanur. It is a marketplace for mobile phone application developers.

After the meetup, there was a live performance from “Paste Tense” music group.

Means of access to Mackolik: via Google Maps or Mackolik Complex Address

The photos taken during the meetup can be found at etohum Facebook group.

Yogurtistan is a 3D virtual world based on Adobe Flash, where users can create shops, play multiplayer games, sell and buy goods and services with animated avatars. Users earn virtual credits upon registering and can start doing business once they open up their stores. Yogurtistan will reward its active members by giving them back part of the value created inside the world. Yogurtistan is now in private beta.

Etohum meetup
Date: 16. October. 2008 Thurday
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Cevahir AVM - Schiller Cafe

Attendance for meet up

• Facebook grubu
• Mixxt grubu
• Grou.ps grubu

We have organized specail a meeting with IAT Informatics Associations of Turkey youth grup. 8. October.2008 Wednesday at 14:30 - 17:00 we will be at cebit eurasia IAT Youth part Hall 10 just oppose to Gökdil. Location will be as a pdf and jpg below

CEBIT - Etohum - Informatics Associations of Turkey youth special meeting: Internet Wrestling

14:30-14:50 : Mert Erkal - 10 Ways to earn money on blogs
14:50-15:00 Break: Poem reading

15:00-15:20 : Şekip Can Gökalp - 9 ways to find VC from Europe
15:20-15:30 Break : Hellboy trailer

15:30-15:50 : Harun Pekşen – 75. minute : 3.0 (half time 2.0)
15:50-16:00 Break : Football from Europe

16:00-16:20 : Metin Kahraman - Pull down to social net
16:20-16:30 Break : Top 10 videos

16:30-16:50 : Tuncay Tuncer / Ali Haydar Ünsal / Emre Güzer – Tuesday market to Polland market
17.00- Closing

Facebook meetup - IAT youth - etohum meeting attandence

Location HALL 10 Download pdf

Çağlar Erol was founder of cember.net which was acquired by xing recently. He is now angel investor and looking for new opportunities. Çağlar and Yonja.com’s founder Kerim Baran funded doktorsitesi.com. Founder of doktorsitesi.com Erden Asena will tell us more about the new startup, online health sector in Turkey.

Etohum meetup
Date: 18. September. 2008 Perşembe
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Cevahir AVM Schiller

Facebook attandence

Tolga H. Tatari (left) & Ahmet E. Sarı (right) at etohum meetup

As European ecommerce luxury shopping community buyvip.com recevied investment of an undisclosed size from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, 3i and Molins Capital Inversión, same business model has been recently launched in Turkey. Last week on 4th of September in our etohum meetup, our guests were co-founders of the firm; Tolga H. Tatari and Ahmet E. Sarı. Markafoni.com has been launched few months ago as Akinon Project Development firm’s project. Additionally they have angel investors.  As used in other exclusive shopping clubs, markafoni.com accepts customers only with reccomendation. They sell luxury brands with 50-70% discount. Although they made agreements with many luxury brands in Turkey, there are many difficulties convincing Turkish firms in these kinds of ecommerce models. Turkish internet market is new to shopping online apparel. Markafoni.com reached many internet geeks in last months. WOM effect of the project so far is successful. We will follow the project closely.

More photos of meetup

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.

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.