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AI in Education Could Reshape How the World Learns

7 August 2019
In recent years, education industry has rallied to pursue “intelligent education”. China takes over the lead in AI spending based on VC investments in EdTech, making up %50 of all global VC investment in 2018. Generated unicorn ed-tech companies are now planning to export their vision and practice beyond the Chinese Wall to transform the education world. As we have discussed AI trends in…
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3 min Read on Social Venture Capitals

27 July 2019
Our generation thinks intensively about the social, environmental and economic impact of their labor. According to Financial Times research, one-third of the youngsters joining the workforce want to know where their effort goes to. In the times of immense ecological…
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No More Factory Model for Universities!

23 June 2019
203 universities, 160.000 working academicians, 8M enrolled students. That is the summary of Turkish higher education scene. The important question here is: What is the cumulative impact created by the graduates of these universities? When we exclude top 10 universities…
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Hey Purposeful Entrepreneurs! Start with Why and Just Open the Box

26 May 2019
One vertical we consistantly work on BN is entrepreneural side of the upcoming paradigm shift. As we believe, all academicians, regulation makers, decision makers of private and public organisations should think & act like an entrepreneur in a lean start up fashion in order to achieve the necessary flexibility level and understand the convergence concept. I strongly suggest that you read my…
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What Do We Do with Big Tech Companies?

21 May 2019
Not a day goes by without someone propounding another genius theory to finally bring an end to the pain point of what we are going to do with these platform businesses, large digital companies. They even take it to the extreme by suggesting that we do not even need social…
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An Antitrust Dilemma: Should We Break Them Up / Open

7 May 2019
We all heard of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal as to how we should be dealing with the large digital companies: “Break up or break open!”  Running for president of the United States, Warren proposed using the antitrust laws to do just that. Her proposal must have…
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UBER vs TESLA, Does Tech Industry Favor Vertically Integrated Companies or Blitz-Scaling Model?

5 May 2019
In the recent episode of Big Tech Big Talk, Berk & Ussal deep dived into the disruptive innovation comes with ride-sharing business. They examined how blitz-scale method gives advantege to Uber over its rivals, and how will Uber utilize the data collected from the cars and its users for the future self-driving car services. As well as this core ride-hailing business, Uber has moved into new…
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Freedom of Speech vs. the Fate of Liberal Democracy

22 April 2019
Discussions regarding the need to regulate social media platforms and their contents escalated with the horrific shooting in the city of Christchurch. It is not that many countries, spearheaded by the European Union have not already covered a great distance on the matter…
21. Century Zeitgeist

Avoiding Existential Threats of Exponential Technologies: 3 Different Approaches

14 April 2019
As the exponentially growing technologies create bigger and bigger disruption in existing markets, the necessity to be ready for this transformation and foresee the short term future became much more important for enterprises, governments and people itself. More & more platforms are being initiated for formulating models to solve the problems generated and spread globally by the Internet and…
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