Likemind Istanbul was one of the events I had in mind lately. I could finally attend the event, (on it’s 11th edition), which is bending the startup scene in Turkey and the interactive agencies together. Özgür Alaz and Alemşah Öztürk are organising Likemind Istanbul with the motto „an opportunity to enjoy coffee and conversation “. I have observed, that the participants were mostly from interactive agencies, web agencies and media planners. I had the chance to meet people from these agencies and some startups.

Exoin is one of them. The founders of Exoin, Hasan Toprakkaya and Sinan Kaplan. They are planning to bring a Tumblr like service, but because of some important subjects, prefer not to launch the technically ready service for now. One of them is the launching language of the platform. At this point, I shared my opinion about starting local. To be successful in a country, you have to have a crew there. Even Facebook has a hard time in Germany. But anyway, starting the creation of upper grade sevices is a good sign. In an environment, where the country’s biggest media establishment is trying to spread the formats like “yazduvara.com” from ancient times over its own channels, it is important to see two young entrepreneurs thinking about a microblog service.

In the short time I have spent in Istanbul, in the intense traffic of meetings, I have concluded that the market is looking forward for many new things and there is an arising possibility of decentral startup mentality, like in Europe. All the factors, which will make it happen are following: The new generation is convenient for creating initiatives, the market is small but expanding, inverstors are slowly awakening and the people who have already important positions in the market, can now concentrate on new projects. That is going to allow them to analyze the subordinate wave profoundly and lead their way. In the following months, we will be hearing many new startup names.

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