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http://blogs.sun.com/alpercelik/date/20080116 Wednesday January 16, 2008

World's Most Popular Open Source Database and Sun Microsystems

I think Sun is acquiring the biggest DB in the Web 2.0 space. Since I
am an entrepreneurship master student, I suddenly thought that; this
places us in just about every young start-up's line of sight as we now
are a point of contact for them. And if we support MySQL then it will
be more professional product with a support of perfect company.

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Posted by Alper Celik [Sun] ( January 16, 2008 06:37 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
http://blogs.sun.com/alpercelik/date/20080115 Tuesday January 15, 2008

Crossing The Chasm (Geoffrey A. Moore)

In ICT Entrepreneurship department we are reading lots of books.
From my point of view; Crossing the Chasm is one of the best among
them. As a small list i can give you the names of the books and i
strongly suggest entrepreneurs to read all of them


1- Crossing the chasm (Geoffrey Moore)

2- Blue Ocean Strategy(W.Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne)

3- Made to Stick (Dan Heath & Chip Heath)

4- Inside the Tornado (Geoffrey A. Moore)

5- Good to Great (Jim Collins)

6- Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki)

7- Rules for Revolutionaries (Guy Kawasaki)

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Posted by Alper Celik [Entrepreneurship] ( January 15, 2008 11:01 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Sun should be doing...

Recently there was very interesting topic on Campus
ambassador mail list. It started with a post: “What do you think Sun should be
doing to come back to profitable growth?” I think it was kind of self-criticism
inside the Sun’s new and young people.

I want to share some of the answers from that subject with
you. Which one is true or which is false, read and see:

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Posted by Alper Celik [Sun] ( January 15, 2008 10:46 AM ) Permalink | Comments[2]
http://blogs.sun.com/alpercelik/date/20080113 Sunday January 13, 2008

What Startups Need: active users or revenue ?

Creating a
desirable product is disconnected from trying to monetize. In consumer
products there’s a great deal of pressure to distort your vision by
squeezing monetization into it. We’d rather focus on evolving our
product. It’s also just more fun

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Posted by Alper Celik [Entrepreneurship] ( January 13, 2008 02:37 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Hi Everyone

Hi everyone, I am Alper. I am a computer engineer. I am Sun Campus
Ambassador to KTH, I have worked in
several software development companies as software engineer. I am a
master student in KTH, and studying ICT Entrepreneurship.I like playing
soccer, lets say I am a semi-professional soccer player.
You can contact with me anywhere and anytime

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Posted by Alper Celik [Personal] ( January 13, 2008 02:31 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]