The unemployment rate among young population in Turkey has reached to 28% in the last month according to the statistics of TUİK. Every year millions of university graduate join the workforce of the country. Targeting only this segment, Kariyergenc.com was opened last month. Nurettin Özdoğan has been working for a year to realise his project of “head hunter” which he came first with in the e-fikrim competition last year position. He changed his business model to operate in career sector and founded kariyergenc.com together with Hasan Toprakkaya and Sinan Kaplan. They found their investors very recently. We will invite the founding partners of kariyergenc.com to our meeting at Mackolik complex.

“kimgelsin.com” founded after a cloe analysis of the demands on the Internet by Mohaç Yücel, Ceren Yücel, Selçuk Uzun ve Volkan Çınar who are specialised in their own line of work but also interested in music professionally will be the guest at our next Etohum meeting. “kimgelsin.com” providing news mainly related with music activities and creating demand for the said activities has the quality of being a business model which includes detailed information about the musicians and which can address to a large scale of age. We will invite the founding partners of kimgelsin.com to our meeting at Mackolik complex.

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.