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Erciyes Teknopark Starts Before the Startup
In Kayseri, a university-linked technology park helps founders find an idea, build a prototype and meet investors. Its most revealing feature is how much work happens before there is a company to rent an office.
Yıldız Tech Has a Useful Head Start: Customers in the Family
Built inside Yıldız Holding, the software company turns grocery orders, delivery routes and factory problems into products. Its advantage is access to businesses that can put the code to work.
Game Factory wants your game to become a business
A working prototype is only the beginning. The Istanbul incubator connects developers with coaches, publishers and platform partners to tackle the harder job: keeping a studio alive.
Tech Istanbul Opens the Door to a City-Sized Customer
Free support is the easy part to explain. Tech Istanbul’s more interesting offer is a chance to test a startup’s product inside the machinery of Istanbul’s municipal services.
Lonca’s pitch: a bank that might become your customer
Kuveyt Türk’s startup accelerator offers grants without taking equity. Its more interesting proposition is a chance to put a young company’s technology to work inside the bank.
Cube Incubation puts a clean room between the idea and the investor
At Teknopark İstanbul, founders can borrow the expensive parts of building a technology company: laboratories, specialist equipment and access to industrial customers. The harder assignment is turning that access into a business.
BUBA Ventures: A good idea still needs a way in
An alumni angel network grew into a meeting point for founders, investors, banks and even orchard technology. BUBA’s history shows what startup support looks like when the introductions come with homework.
ebebek Built a Baby Business by Letting Parents Touch the Merchandise
A Turkish parenting website became a chain of more than 300 stores by listening to what a screen could not answer. Its next test is making that formula pay abroad.
Kariyer.net has 40 million CVs. Its next job is making them count.
Turkey’s recruitment veteran built its business on job ads. Now it is selling the work around the hire, from finding candidates to rehearsing the interview.
Migros One Wants the Whole Shopping List
Groceries, dinner, pet food: Migros One is gathering the household shop into one app. Behind the screen, the Turkish retailer is putting its stores, software and delivery network to work together.
arabam.com wants more than your next car sale
The Turkish car marketplace now buys vehicles, supplies dealers and sells motor oil. Its bigger bet is on the years between one car purchase and the next.
The Turkish Word for Owner Became a Verb
Turkey's biggest marketplace started with 2,700 classified ads in 2000. A quarter century later, 'sahibinden' is how the country buys a house, sells a car, and rents an apartment - so much so that the name stopped being a website and started being a habit.
Butterball
Butterball is the largest producer of turkey products in the United States, selling more than 1 billion pounds of turkey a year from its headquarters in Garner, North Carolina. Jointly owned by Seaboard Corporation and Maxwell Farms, the company makes whole turkeys, turkey cuts, ground turkey, turkey bacon, sausage and deli meats for grocery, foodservice and export - and runs the Turkey Talk-Line, the Thanksgiving cooking hotline that has answered questions from anxious cooks every holiday season since 1981.