Karen Howells

ENGG 437 : Entrepreneurship And Leadership

Assignment 1 : Entrepreneur Research Project

Erdem Sucar 282275

Computer Engineering

Nevzat Aydın’s Biography.

Born in 1976 in Istanbul, Nevzat Aydın graduated from Bursa Anadolu High School. He studied computer engineering at Bogazici University and after graduating went to Silicon Valley to pursue his MBA degree at the University of San Francisco.

There, he followed and analyzed developments in e-business. In 2000, he returned to Turkey to found yemeksepeti.com which had a deep impact on the e-business concept in the country. Nevzat Aydın is the General Manager of yemeksepeti.com which introduced a new breadth to the Turkish e-commerce market. He is also the member of TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board.

In 2004 and 2005, yemeksepeti.com wasawarded the “Best Website” prize in Altın Örümcek (Golden Spider) Web Awards, organized by Microsoft and DorukNet. Yemeksepeti.com also won first prizes in “E-Business” and “Services” categories. In 2006, yemeksepeti.com repeated its success by winning several new prizes in the same contest.

In 2007, the Turkey office of Endeavor, a global non-profit organization that identifies and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets, announced yemeksepeti.com as “The Endeavor Entrepreneur”. The committee made its decision by evaluating factors like entrepreneurship, innovation, ethical values, role model potential, contribution to the economy and conformance to Endeavor principles. Yemeksepeti.com thereby recieved the opportunity to benefit from Endevaor’s global support network, intermediation in accessing capital, strategic consultancy, mentoring and promotion support. In 2010, Nevzat Aydın was chosen as the “The Most Successful Young Entrepreneur in Turkey” by CNBC-e Business magazine for his successful work with yemeksepeti.com.

Yemeksepeti.com with three friends founded with a capital of 80 thousand dollars. The idea came from Nevzat Aydın. Turkey's first and largest online food ordering site yemeksepeti.com, currently at a rate of 99% in Turkey is the clear leader in online food sector. Even in years of large capital groups crossed activity supported projects were faced with the failure, yemeksepeti.com success. User and Member Number of restaurants showed an increase in the sense of a very serious with each passing day.

In 2001, the Internet was a time of serious trouble was. Large corporations were going one by one from the internet. Because a significant sunk investments.However, the money used correctly. The plan is successful. Be set up with 80 thousand dollars Yemeksepeti.com 's transaction volume reached 71 million U.S. dollars in 2009. In retrospect, the period 2001-2005 is between the fully withstand the internet has evolved with the exact meaning of turkey ADSL'le took place in 2005. The first competitor arrived in 2003, but it was too late.

Yemeksepeti.com 'In order to be able to order from the site you need to register and address information. After this is done at yemeksepeti.com in the tens of thousands of restaurants offer an alternative for choice. Order, "Do not put the onion" or "get well done as" the little notes can be added. Given orders for food service personnel are paid from the door. Cash, credit cards, or food can be paid by check. Members yemeksepeti.com a system on the cost of food by credit card online through the site and can be paid in a completely safe way.

Yemeksepeti.com, Turkey's first online food ordering website. Adana, Afyonkarahisar, Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bolu, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çorum, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Edirne, Elazığ, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Isparta, Mersin, İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Manisa, Muğla, Ordu, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Sivas, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Şanlıurfa, Uşak, Van, Zonguldak, Aksaray, Kırıkkale, Yalova serving in.

Serves 43 cities in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Outside of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, with the names of Izrestorana.ru Foodonclick.com and serve.

Important business partners, Burger King, Domino's Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Little Caesars Pizza, McDonald's, Pizza Bulls, Pizza Hut, Pizza Pizza, Pizza Line, Popeyes, Sbarro and Schlotzsky's.

Yemeksepeti.com, iPhone app, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia applications.

Users who contracted with yemeksepeti.com more than 5,000 restaurants, order a meal without any extra charge.

Nevzat Aydin in 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama's Entrepreneurship Summit held April 26-27 entrepreneur is among the 150 who were invited all over the world.

Awards

2010 Croquette Awards2009 Crystal Apple Awards2009 Effie2008 Red - Press Top Values Advertising Awards2008 TimeOut Istanbul2008 Crystal Apple Awards2007 Endeavor2007 MediaCat Felis Awards2007 Golden Spider2006 Golden Spider2005 World Summit Award2005 Eurowards2005 Golden Spider2004 Profile2004 Golden Spider2003 Golden Spider2002 Golden Spider2001 Interpro ICT Awards

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