Matthew E. May is the author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing and the ChangeThis manifesto called Creative Elegance. He spent nearly a decade as a close adviser to Toyota and works with creative teams and senior leaders at a number of top Fortune companies.
1. Question: How do you [...]
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In Pursuit of Elegance: 12 Indispensable Tips
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Venture Capital, entrepreneur, tagged alper, alper celik, çelik, Business, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, In Pursuit of Elegance, In Pursuit of Elegance: 12 Indispensable Tips, IT, KTH, Matthew E. May, small business, Stockholm, Sweden, technology on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Can Entrepreneurs Change the World?
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Management, Network Society, Who I am, entrepreneur, tagged entreprene, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, ICT, inspiration, Management, small business on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weird Ideas That Work
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, tagged alper celik, çelik, enterpreneur, enterpreneurship, management science, robert i sutton, stanford, sutton, Weird Ideas That Work on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am reading a book called Weird Ideas That Work by Robert I. Sutton. Professor Sutton from Stanford is a unique voice with an urgent message about how to generate and capitalize on new ides. Since I count myself as an entrepreneurial person, I loved few ideas and want to share them with you. The [...]
Mission Vision Statements
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, entrepreneur, tagged alper, çelik, Business, crossing the chasm, Geoffrey Moore, Geoffrey Moore's book Crossing the Chasm, IT, KTH, mantra, mission statement, stockholm school of entrepreneurship, vision statement on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am trying to find mission and vision statements for a project that I involved in. I just realized that mission-vision statement helps managers to pass the elevator test — the ability to explain the project to someone within two minutes. A good framework from Geoffrey Moore’s book Crossing the Chasm can help you to position your [...]
Emerging Markets
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, emerging markets, tagged alper, çelik, Business, China, computer, emerging markets, Entrepreneurship, IT, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, telecom, turkey on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We can define Emerging Economies as those “regions of the world that are experiencing rapid informationalization under conditions of limited or partial industrialization.” It appears that emerging markets lie at the intersection of non-traditional user behavior, the rise of new user groups and community adoption of products and services, and innovations in product technologies and [...]
Technology Adoption Life Cycle – TALC
Posted in Entrepreneurship, tagged alper, çelik, chasm, crossing the chasm, Entrepreneurship, Geoffrey A. Moore, innovators, inside the tornado, Kista, KTH, moore, startup, TALC, Technology Adoption Life Cycle on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am a computer engineer and a master student in Sweden. I am studying ICT Entrepreneurship at The Royal Institute of Technology. Currently, I am working on an Open Source Project at KTH, Stockholm and i have done a Technology Adoption Life Cycle paper for Open Source, PC-Based Networking in Africa. I would like to [...]
Crossing the Chasm
Posted in Entrepreneurship, tagged alper celik, çelik, Business, crossing the chasm, entreprene, entrepreneur, IT, Kista, KTH, launching new ventures, Marketing, start-up, Stockholm, Sweden, the art of start, the innovators dilemma on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my article about a book advice had been published in a magazin in Stocholm. You can find the article from here and have a look at what i wrote about Crossing the Chasm. I think this book is a must book for an entrepreneur.
CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Marketing, Venture Capital, Web, tagged alper, alper celik, çelik, Business, CeBIT, CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia, CeBIT Eurosia, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Istanbul, IT, KTH, startup, Stockholm, Sweden, web 2.0, web 3.0 on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I strongly suggest to entrepreneurs and start-ups to go to Istanbul/Turkey between 7–12 October 2008 to join CeBIT Information Affair. Uniquely positioned to address the region’s flourishing ICT market, CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia is the ideal platform from which to launch new products and services.The 2008 show will boast a total exhibition area of 27,000 square [...]
Sun Start-Up Essentials
Posted in Entrepreneurship, tagged alper, alper celik, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, ict entrepreneurship, Kista, KTH, start-up, Stockholm, Sun, Sun Microsystems, sun start up essentials, Sweden on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For a start-up time to market is so important. To decrease the time to market, a start-up must be able to develop their product or service in a reasonable time and price. To do that, Sun Microsystem’s new program for Start-Ups can be a good alternative. Why should we pay a lot for the IT [...]
Sun and MySQL: Few Acquisitions Make This Much Sense
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Sun Microsystems, tagged acqusition, computer, databse, guy kawasaki, IT, MySQL, Sun, Sun Microsystems, Web, web 2.0 on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On February 27, 2008 Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL. MySQL is the “world’s most popular database”–whatever that means in marketing speak. In terms of technology it means that Sun now owns the database that many Web companies use for web applications and services. There are few acquisitions that make as much sense. Marten Mickos was [...]

