Invention of Our Skate
Tags: New Start, Entrepreneur, Startup, Entrepreneurship, Partnerships

Hello everyone, I am Berkay.

I am exhibiting the classical entrepreneur stereotype, which is constantly sheds a light bulb in his mind, enjoys generating different solutions to the problems he encounters in life, and fails when he makes this solution real. I can say that the stone that rolled in the story of Sisyphus was my startup ideas.

I started pushing a new rock. While pushing it, I am now aiming to write down what has happened to us (me and my team) and to see where we made the mistake from the feedback of people, maybe I am writing the introduction of a nice adventure guide. Who knows! In this article, I will be explaining the invention of our first skate. I am planning to write the improvements regularly. At the end of the day, maybe we will invent a car in my blog.

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Before I get into the details of our startup, I must briefly introduce myself. While I was gaining analytical skills at my university education, I thought that my social skills were improved on campus… I was wrong. I understood I was wrong when I was shaking my manager’s hand on the first day of my business life, when my face turned red and I could not open my mouth and meet people. Before I graduated from the university, my flirt with entrepreneurship had already started, but my first contact with entrepreneurship started when I became the CaseCampus fellow of the Endeavor Association. Then, I stepped into sales at AloTech Communication Technologies and left engineering behind me.

At that time, I was also setting up my first startup. I had a great idea. The world needed this idea. Why was this idea not thought up to that day? If everything went well, I could be Turkey’s Mark Zuckerberg. Our business idea had a huge market. Then we set off and neither the market was too large nor we were the first ones to think that idea.

I continued to work with my team. Although our first attempt was unsuccessful, it was efficient in seeing our deficiencies. First of all, we did not have experience with doing business. We did not know how to test the idea, and we could not manage future planning. Considering these, we have seen that we need time to improve ourselves. I was a team member responsible for business development, I knew how to sell. However, selling product was not enough. Seeing my deficiencies increased my motivation and I looted all the resources I could access to improve myself. I started working full time in Paynet Payment Services in business and product development, and my professional life still continues there. In parallel, I saw that I could not be satisfied only with this and I took my chance to join an MBA program.

As a result, this process brought me to my new startup idea. My job description in the business development department is to manage business partnerships in the most efficient and profitable way at the end of the day. My job description in the product development department is to improve existing products and develop new product ideas based on the feedback I receive from business partners and customers. In this context, there was always a blockage in the processes related to business partnership. If you are on the sales side, you can follow all the developments and recent situations related to your potential customer and keep the communication channels open all the time. However, when it comes to business partnership and alternative sources of income, I saw that these processes are problematic. Today, business development departments do not have any technology to keep the track of their partners, they were trapped in Excel and mailing.

The bonds that were not formed here caused inefficiencies in alternative income sources of companies, unhappy partnerships and constant search for new partnerships. In this respect, I liken the partnership to flirting. There is a difference between what you hope on the first day and what you find on the last day, but if you are very lucky, you will find harmony with a few business partners. After every frustration, you start a new business partnership with lower dreams.

I dream to bond this relationship between business partners with sailor’s knot. The idea of our new startup aims to improve this relationship between two or more business partner and they can work in same environment together. For this reason, we started our journey as PartnersBond.

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