The story of a kid who doesn't leave things half-done

2011-2019 · Building

1. 2011

   First job. Two offers came as the book was about to come out; I somehow convinced both to let me split my week between them. I never received a full salary; my whole payroll history is twenty days.

2. 2011

   Webtures. The real adventure began: hardship, ups and downs, mistakes, lessons, losses and gains. It started in a 30 m² first office.

3. 2011

   A smear campaign. My name and all my ventures were targeted on hundreds of forums in a single day. It taught me not to be shaken by things that do not matter.

4. 2012

   Learning management the hard way. I learned management by living through the worst of it first, while teaching AutoCAD, a job I would have done for life even without pay.

5. 2014

   Girişimci Kafası. I started Girişimci Kafası to share what I had learned building a business: the problems, and the perspective I developed. I made most content myself before handing it to the team.

6. 18 October 2014

   My first conference talk. My first conference talk was in İzmir, at a one-day search conference hosted by Ege University's technology transfer office. The recording is on YouTube.

7. 2016

   The first 250,000 followers. Girişimci Kafası reached its first 250,000 followers: content I started to share my own experience had become a community followed by hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs.

8. 2016

   The biggest crisis. A crisis around SEO Hocası spread across every platform. I had to manage, hold up or protect myself, my team, our clients and my family, while dealing with speculative news and distortions.

9. 8 November 2016

   A company's most valuable capital is its team. The team in that photo were among my biggest supporters during the crisis; they greeted me at the office this way to lift my spirits.

10. 2016

    Startup Türkiye. When a Facebook startup group would not let me post about the crisis, I founded the Startup Türkiye group, which grew to more than 60,000 members.

11. 2016

    Twenty years of lessons in two weeks. That crisis made me weigh the short and long-term side effects of everything I plan.

12. 2017

    Opening our experience to new startups. Through Webtures' Dijital Melek programme we offered startups services and mentoring; in its second round in 2017, five startups were selected, with no fee or equity asked.

13. February 2019

    Personal brand. In the early days of SEO Hocası I preferred to stay in the background. Being a shy person, stepping forward took a long time: first Webtures, then my own name.

14. 16 April 2019

    WEBTURES LTD. We added WEBTURES LTD in the United Kingdom, a concrete step in Webtures' international development.