Startups & Entrepreneurship

A Survival Guide for Venture Capital: How to Protect Yourself from Founder Fraud “Economics is not about how you want people to behave, but how they actually behave”. This is one of my favourite quotes. Every VC and PE investor operates in an environment that is structurally open to fraud. This isn’t an exaggeration, but the mathematical reality of how startup financing works.

As an angel investor, I am always in a mode of “being pitched” and “being a source of an idea/an investment” for years. It is so natural though; start-ups frequently need investment and/or investor perspective. It is a multichannel process: some reach directly to me via social media or peer introduction, we meet some in organizations I have been invited, or sometimes I reach them to talk. Probably, I listened or reviewed more than 3000 start-ups so far. And unfortunately, m

Important (and Basic) Metrics to Consider for Angel Investors Before a Start-up Investment

Which Verticals Are Boosted During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Turkish Business & Start-up Ecosystem?