In the entrepreneurship ecosystem, an "acceleration program" is defined as a time-limited and mostly periodical incubation program that provides support to entrepreneurs such as counseling, mentoring, technical mentorship, investment or venture capital, networking, promotion, and so on. These programs, which aim to help startups receive investment, usually last for...
What were you doing before starting your business? How did you come up with the idea of starting your own business? The idea of entrepreneurship excites me since my university years. I tried a couple of small ventures those times as well. After graduating from METU, I started working as...
Making our world a more livable place is not only a duty of states but also of all of us as citizens and companies. Undoubtedly, it is not possible as an individual or a company for us to develop such an inclusive plan on our own. For this reason,...
The 1973 oil crisis had a devastating impact on the American automotive industry. The large vehicles of the American automotive industry gave their places to Japanese vehicles that are fuel-efficient, robust and affordable, due to their efficiency. At first place of these Japanese companies, we saw Toyota, the creator...
Agile Manifesto is accepted as the main reference to agile mindset. Some people believe in the manifesto as the “holy grail” for successful software development (Hohl, et al., 2018),  Moreover, there is an assumption that agile principles are sacrosanct and there exists a tendency to add practices to resolve...