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How to Nail Pricing
In this article, we tried to lay out fundamentals about pricing in general.
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Turkish Ecosystem Overview and Trends
Başak Zorlutuna
In this article, we will go a deep dive into the burgeoning world of Turkey's investment and startup landscape—a core market for us at ScaleX Ventures.
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Year in Review: 2023
Şafak Tüfekçi
Once again, we are excited to reflect on 2023 as a tradition at ScaleX Year in Review.
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How to Land First Ten Customers
Başak Zorlutuna
In the initial stages of a startup, the main goal is to build the right product for the right market. Then, it is time for most B2B startups to win their first ten customers.
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How to Set Up a Go-to-Market Strategy
Başak Zorlutuna
Having an amazing product is not enough. You need a go-to-market (GTM) strategy to reach your customers, especially true for B2B products.
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How to Enable Product-Led Growth
Dilek Dayınlarlı
Anupam Jindal, Founder and CEO at getfulcrum.io shares what founders of early to late-stage startups are now looking to learn about—Product-Led Growth—and how the approach can potentially help businesses expedite growth.
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How to Nail Product Positioning
Başak Zorlutuna
In this article, April Dunford, a globally recognized leader in positioning and author of the best-selling book: “Obviously Awesome”, will explain product positioning and how to do it in every business effectively.
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The Founders' Partner Program: Sharing the rewards with our founders
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Founders’ Partner Program to make our entrepreneurs part of our ScaleX team just like stock options do for startups. When we invest in you, you get a piece of ScaleX.
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Year in Review: 2022
Şafak Tüfekçi
Looking back on milestones and memorable moments across the ScaleX community in 2022..
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Product Management Tips And Tricks From A Top Notch Product Executive (2/2)
Dilek Dayınlarlı
We are continuing our initial conversation about product management with Kamil Rodoper, a 20-year tech veteran and the Chief Product Officer at Forto – a Berlin-based start-up offering digitized freight forwarding and supply chain solutions.
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Product Management Tips and Tricks From a Top Notch Product Executive (1/2)
Dilek Dayınlarlı
Kamil Rodoper is a veteran of the technology sector, having spent almost two decades in various senior roles at high-profile top tech companies, including Lyft, Glassdoor, and Microsoft. Kamil now brings his record of accomplishments in setting the strategic direction for the product ecosystem.
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How to Set up Employee Stock Option Plan
Dilek Dayınlarlı
An insightful reflection of our conversation with Sean Byrnes, co-founder of OutlierAI to share our learnings with founders to help them set up an effective ESOP.
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The Fundamentals of Employee Stock Options
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Stock options are a valuable way to compensate your employees for the hard work. Here is a guide to help you better understand stock options and how they work.
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The 2021 Year in Review
Şafak Tüfekçi
2021 was an unforgettable year at ScaleX Ventures. Cheers to the past year and, 2022, here we come!
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Congrats on the Promotion to Associate, Şafak!
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We are thrilled to announce the promotion of our Şafak Tüfekçi to Associate after 5 years with the team.
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Venture Landscape: A Briew Post-Pandemic Review
Başak Zorlutuna
Although we finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel with the pandemic, it has been tough for many of us for the last two years. How was its impact on the venture landscape?
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Foolproof Go-to-Market Strategy for Innovative B2B Tech Companies
Dilek Dayınlarlı
How Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm has changed one of Europe's most ambitious and successful Startups trajectory from chaos to €10M SaaS revenue and growing faster than ever.
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Trends Deep Dive (Part 3) - Turkey Ecosystem at a Glance
Dilek Dayınlarlı
The Turkish startup ecosystem is considered one of the strongest among the region. It is developing and growing at a fast pace, making Turkey an attractive place to start a business as well as to invest in one.
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Trends Deep Dive (Part 2) - Global VC Landscape
Dilek Dayınlarlı
VC world had an incredibly resilient year, we investigate the data behind the headlines and the trends shaping it.
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Trends Deep Dive (Part 1) - Tech Acceleration
Dilek Dayınlarlı
The rapid migration to digital technologies is currently driven by the pandemic and the organizations are investing heavily in technology.
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The 2020 Year in Review
Dilek Dayınlarlı
2020 also the first episode of our ScaleX journey. We are very glad to share it with you all.
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Building A Successful Startup Ecosystem
The first wave of entrepreneurship in Turkey arose in the 2000s continuing into the early 2010s when internet usage increased dramatically.
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Emerging Europe VC & Ventures Ecosystem Opportunity
We wanted to answer the question of “why we are bullish about Emerging Europe and what makes us excited.”
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How to Nail Pricing
In this article, we tried to lay out fundamentals about pricing in general.
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The Need for Customer Success
Customer Success Teams are in almost every SaaS company, but why?
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Frameworks Governing SaaS Models
It has never been cheaper to build a SaaS company.
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Building Your Startup's Go-to-Market Strategy
Research on the companies which show both magnificent growth over the years tied with strong company values
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by ScaleX Research Center
Building a successful startup ecosystem
This research provides an analysis and evaluation of the current status of the startup ecosystem in Turkey. An ecosystem is ‘a community of organisms’, interacting as a system.
August 12, 2020
Analyzing its basic elements is not enough as the community is the collective interaction of actors with the environment and vice versa.

We tried to analyze elements of the ecosystem and their interaction with the startup lifecycle.
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Turkish Ecosystem Overview and Trends
Başak Zorlutuna
In this article, we will go a deep dive into the burgeoning world of Turkey's investment and startup landscape—a core market for us at ScaleX Ventures.
scalex article cover
How to Land First Ten Customers
Başak Zorlutuna
In the initial stages of a startup, the main goal is to build the right product for the right market. Then, it is time for most B2B startups to win their first ten customers.
scalex article cover
How to Set Up a Go-to-Market Strategy
Başak Zorlutuna
Having an amazing product is not enough. You need a go-to-market (GTM) strategy to reach your customers, especially true for B2B products.
scalex article cover
How to Enable Product-Led Growth
Dilek Dayınlarlı
Anupam Jindal, Founder and CEO at getfulcrum.io shares what founders of early to late-stage startups are now looking to learn about—Product-Led Growth—and how the approach can potentially help businesses expedite growth.
scalex article cover
How to Nail Product Positioning
Başak Zorlutuna
In this article, April Dunford, a globally recognized leader in positioning and author of the best-selling book: “Obviously Awesome”, will explain product positioning and how to do it in every business effectively.
scalex article cover
Product Management Tips And Tricks From A Top Notch Product Executive (2/2)
Dilek Dayınlarlı
We are continuing our initial conversation about product management with Kamil Rodoper, a 20-year tech veteran and the Chief Product Officer at Forto – a Berlin-based start-up offering digitized freight forwarding and supply chain solutions.
scalex article cover
Product Management Tips and Tricks From a Top Notch Product Executive (1/2)
Dilek Dayınlarlı
Kamil Rodoper is a veteran of the technology sector, having spent almost two decades in various senior roles at high-profile top tech companies, including Lyft, Glassdoor, and Microsoft. Kamil now brings his record of accomplishments in setting the strategic direction for the product ecosystem.
scalex article cover
How to Set up Employee Stock Option Plan
Dilek Dayınlarlı
An insightful reflection of our conversation with Sean Byrnes, co-founder of OutlierAI to share our learnings with founders to help them set up an effective ESOP.
scalex article cover
The Fundamentals of Employee Stock Options
Dilek Dayınlarlı
Stock options are a valuable way to compensate your employees for the hard work. Here is a guide to help you better understand stock options and how they work.
scalex article cover
Foolproof Go-to-Market Strategy for Innovative B2B Tech Companies
Dilek Dayınlarlı
How Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm has changed one of Europe's most ambitious and successful Startups trajectory from chaos to €10M SaaS revenue and growing faster than ever.
scalex article cover
Trends Deep Dive (Part 3) - Turkey Ecosystem at a Glance
Dilek Dayınlarlı
The Turkish startup ecosystem is considered one of the strongest among the region. It is developing and growing at a fast pace, making Turkey an attractive place to start a business as well as to invest in one.
scalex article cover
Trends Deep Dive (Part 2) - Global VC Landscape
Dilek Dayınlarlı
VC world had an incredibly resilient year, we investigate the data behind the headlines and the trends shaping it.
scalex article cover
Trends Deep Dive (Part 1) - Tech Acceleration
Dilek Dayınlarlı
The rapid migration to digital technologies is currently driven by the pandemic and the organizations are investing heavily in technology.
scalex article cover
Emerging Europe VC & Ventures Ecosystem Opportunity
We wanted to answer the question of “why we are bullish about Emerging Europe and what makes us excited.”
scalex article cover
How to Nail Pricing
In this article, we tried to lay out fundamentals about pricing in general.
scalex article cover
The Need for Customer Success
Customer Success Teams are in almost every SaaS company, but why?
scalex article cover
Frameworks Governing SaaS Models
It has never been cheaper to build a SaaS company.
scalex article cover
Building Your Startup's Go-to-Market Strategy
Research on the companies which show both magnificent growth over the years tied with strong company values
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