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Kurumsal Dijitalleşme mi yoksa Dijital Kurumsallaşma mı? (+Anket)

Eğer benim gibi siz de işinizin önemli bir bölümünü pazar araştırması yaparak geçiriyorsanız muhtemelen siz de en az benim kadar Türkiye'de pazar verisine ulaşmanın ne kadar zor olduğu hakkında defalarca şikayet etmiş ve sonunda yaratıcı yollar keşfetme yolunu tercih etmişsinizdir. Bunun sebebinin analitik düşünceye ihtiyacımızın olmaması mı, tembellik mi, kısa vadeli düşünmemiz mi yoksa insanüstü tahmin ve öngörü yeteneklerine sahip olmamız mı emin değilim. "Y  ou can’t manage what you can’t measure " - "Ö  lçemedeğiniz şeyi yönetemezsiniz " Her ne kadar bu söz, günümüze  yanlış  bir şekilde aktarılmış olsa da, kendi içerisinde kısmi bir doğruluk barındırmakta. Aslında bu söz ile anlatılmak istenen, ölçerek herşeyin yönetilemeyeceği fakat sonuçları iyileştirmek için süreçlerin ölçülmesi ve takip edilmesinin önemli olduğudur.  Sözün asıl sahibi W. Edward Deming, verinin ve gözlemin önemini aşağıdaki sözüyle çok güzel bir şekilde anlatmaktadır....
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Google's Lesson: Learning from your competitors

It was a great search engine but a money-losing business—until it borrowed an idea from its biggest rival. The idea that made Google the world’s greatest search engine was all Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But the idea that set it on the path to becoming the world’s greatest  company  wasn’t theirs originally. It was borrowed, with some key modifications, from their biggest early rival. In September 1998, Page and Brin founded Google based on an algorithm called PageRank that they had developed as Stanford Ph.D. students. Other search engines ranked pages based on the relevance of the text they contained, which allowed spammers to game the system by filling their pages with commonly searched keywords. PageRank dived much deeper, evaluating sites’ authority and influence based on the number of other authoritative and influential sites that linked to them. Suddenly a search for “Honda” turned up Honda.com instead of, say, a porn site that had copied the word ...

A Creative Way to Meet Investors - UberX

Have a cool startup idea, and want to get it funded? You could go the traditional route, blindly sending your pitch deck to every VC in Silicon Valley. Or you could follow investors on Twitter, hoping that through casual badinage you can win the hearts (and eventually, the wallets) of your startup's money source.  Or maybe, just maybe, you should drive for Uber. UberX Lowers The Bar Yes, Uber, the popular mobile app that connects drivers with people who need a lift. Founded in 2009 as UberCab, Uber has become the go-to app for hailing a sedan in markets like San Francisco, New York City and London. And while historically Uber operators have been commercial sedan drivers filling time between jobs their employer provides them, Uber's introduction of UberX in July 2012 has opened the service to cars and drivers of all kinds. This means that not only will you be picked up in a Toyota Prius or Volkswagen Jetta instead of a Lincoln Town Car, but you're also going...

57 Startup Lessons Learned Through Experience

People If you can’t get to ramen profitability with a team of 2 – 4 within six months to a year, something’s wrong. (You can choose not to be profitable, but it must be your choice, not something forced on you by the market). Split the stock between the founding team evenly. Always have a vesting schedule. Make most decisions by consensus, but have a single  CEO  whose decisions are final. Make it clear from day one. Your authority as  CEO  is earned. You start with a non-zero baseline. It grows if you have victories and dwindles if you don’t. Don’t try to use authority you didn’t earn. Morale is very real and self-perpetuating. If you work too long without victories, your investors, employees, family, and you yourself will lose faith. Work like hell not to get yourself into this position. Pick the initial team  very  carefully. Everyone should be pleasant to work with, have at least one skill relevant to the business they’re spectacular at, be e...

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15 Online Tools Every Entrepreneur Should Know Of

In the past I have written up posts about tools designed to help a blogger, but now I am focusing on business oriented tools. These tools are great for those looking to start their own business or to improve on an existing one. Almostmeet Almostmeet, by the folks at Dabbleboard (see below), is a great way for teams to meet online and collaborate together. Perhaps not as good as working in person, it is ‘Almost’ as good. With a text box in addition to the audio/video chatting as well as the whiteboard teams can really work well together. Constant Contact Constant Contact is a very well known email marketing, online survey and event marketing resource. ConstantContact has a very professional look and feel. It is great for sending email newsletters, online surveys and managing email lists. ContractPal ContractPal is a great way to take care of all your formal contracts and forms online. In their own words, it is an “electronic contracting platform.” Cu...