Playing the Long Game in Entrepreneurship: Scaling Beyond the Product
Entrepreneurship is a long journey.
How can you be ‘successful’ on this path both as an individual and as a company without depleting yourself, your resources, and relationships?
Starting a company and developing a product to solve a problem is just the beginning of the entrepreneurial journey. As a founder, are you ready to build teams that perform in the long term and create valuable companies beyond the initial product excitement and investments you've received?
Join us as we explore how founders drive long-term performance in the tech ecosystem by focusing on organizational health and developing leadership skills.
In this interactive session and panel, we want to move founders away from feeling burnt out and overwhelmed to a more energized and hopeful state. We’ll show how a purpose-driven approach, building resilience, taking care of self, and having resonant relationships are the real drivers of long-term performance as an individual and organization
Topics we'll explore together:
What is ‘Founder Burnout’, how can we prevent it or reduce its negative effects?
How do you manage cofounder dynamics?
The critical role of organizational health in the long-term performance of tech companies.
The impacts of a founder's mental health on their leadership.
The significant connection between personal health, wellbeing, and organizational performance.
What competencies, approaches, and practices do you need to develop to be an effective leader?
What do investors look for beyond the product and business model when investing, and how do they support entrepreneurs on this journey?
The importance of individual and company vision, purpose-driven leadership, and insights for building resilience.
Support mechanisms you need on your journey, before and after investment.
Practices that foster both an internal journey and connection with yourself, and trigger deep, meaningful external relationships.
This event will offer valuable insights and practical knowledge for entrepreneurs and leaders in the tech ecosystem.
We believe that progressing with high energy and motivation in this long-term game is crucial for both individual health and company performance.
Playing the Long Game in Entrepreneurship
16:30 - Doors Open & Check-in
17:00 - Session Kick Off & Presentation with Gokce Gizer Clover (Founder, Beyond42)
17:35 - Panel and Q&A with Bulut Arukel (Cofounder, Figopara) & Pelin Gonul Sahin (Founder, Founder Being & Venture Partner, 212 VC)
18:30 - Networking
*The sessions will be held in Turkish.
*This is an in-person event.
*To ensure the best experience given our limited capacity and specific content focus, we’re prioritizing founders and investors first. We'll do our best to accommodate you, please wait for a confirmation email approving your registration. Thanks for understanding.
Meet the Speakers
Semiramis Kulak
Managing Partner, SGlobe
Semiramis Kulak is the managing partner of SGlobe, an Istanbul-based consulting firm solely for startups. They provide 360-degree support to startups, from incorporation until exit. She is also the managing partner of The Hood TEKMER, a 2600-square-meter technology development center in Istanbul.
Previously in her career, she worked as a Venture Capitalist. She managed more than 10 funds and invested in over 50 early-stage startups during that time.
Gökçe Gizer Clover
Founder, Beyond42
GG is a serial entrepreneur and a founder at heart who supports founders in building resilience and thriving organizations. She works with tech companies from idea to fundraising to achieving sustainable growth as an advisor, investor, coach, and expert. At the intersection of business, design, and behavioral psychology, she has developed a unique approach with proven models, tools, and methods, providing the structure for founders and teams to work toward their vision with clarity, purpose, and conviction.
She coached and mentored hundreds of founders, as Contest Director of the Extreme Tech Challenge, and as a mentor for WeWork Labs, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Innovation Norway, Parsons Venture Lab, Katapult Accelerator, and Stanford Center for Professional Development, among many other programs. She’s a co-founder of the London-based fund EdenBase and creator of TransformBase, a platform to harness emerging technologies for a prosperous world.
Bulut Arukel
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Figopara
With over 15 years of experience in sales and business development, he is the co-founder and chief revenue officer at Figopara. This fintech platform enables fast and secure payments for SMEs. He leads the sales, global expansion, operations, business development, partnerships, consulting, and channel functions, and drives the go-to-market strategy to achieve the company's growth targets. He has successfully established strategic partnerships with leading banks, financial institutions, and technology providers, and expanded Figopara's presence and reach in multiple markets.
Bulut is also passionate about the social impact and empowerment of women in technology, and serves as a board member at Teknolojide Kadın Derneği. This non-profit organization promotes gender equality and diversity in the tech sector. He mentors aspiring entrepreneurs at Endeavor, where he shares his expertise and insights on expansion, growth, and enterprise sales. He has a strong engineering and international business background, and has acquired multiple skills in new business development, key account management, and strategy.
Pelin Gönül Şahin
Founder and CEO of Founder Being & Venture Partner at 212 VC
With over a decade of experience across Europe, MENA, and LATAM, she has built and executed acceleration and innovation programs for corporates and investment firms including Visa, Orange Business Services, Startupbootcamp, and StartersHub.
Her extensive work in high-pressure environments of startups and VCs helped her identify a crucial gap in support for founder mental health, which led her to pursue a Master's in Clinical Psychology. She applies her diverse experience and commitment to mental resilience to enhance founder wellbeing and nurture sustainable entrepreneurship and investment ecosystems.
Pelin holds MA degrees both in Clinical Psychology and International Relations and is fluent in Turkish, English, and Spanish. She deeply enjoys meeting new people, exploring culinary trends, and acting as a connector within her international network.
Meet Your Hosts
SGlobe
We provide support to grow and develop your startup with everything you need, under a single roof; from accounting to legal, from globalization to investment processes.
Beyond42
We support founders of rapidly growing tech companies to develop the skills and mindset required to build lasting companies—beyond their initial idea and product. Through coaching, training, resources, insights, and access to a community, we support you to build thriving teams, nurture individual and organizational resilience, and cultivate healthy cultures on your journey to creating an enduring company.
The Hood TEKMER
The Hood TEKMER is a technology development center that has emerged with the aim of being a growth hub for entrepreneurs. We host the journey of entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors coming together to create a positive impact on the ecosystem, with a focus on globalization, innovation, and development. Located at the heart of startup ecosystem, Maslak 42 in Istanbul, we are the meeting point of the world.