加载中…青年创业之路:土耳其连线
(2011-10-18 09:48:43)
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法提赫•伊斯贝瑟
在20世纪90年代初的佛罗里达州代托纳海滩（Daytona Beach)读中学对来自伊斯坦布尔的交换学生法提赫·伊斯贝瑟（Fatih Isbecer)来说是一段难忘的经历。伊斯贝瑟说，当时的美国技术革命令他着迷。
他回忆说：“我当时满怀创业精神，而且满脑子都是不同的技术创意。我觉得这种变化最终会影响土耳其。”
当伊斯贝瑟在佛罗里达州读中学的时候，土耳其在电讯方面还远远落后于美国和其他发达国家。家用电话在农村十分罕见。需要打电话的人一般都得去当地邮局，等着电话接通。
由于有像伊斯贝瑟这样的土耳其企业家，情况发生了巨大变化。
在90年代末，伊斯贝瑟和伊斯坦布尔技术大学的一些同学创立了一个以互联网为主的小公司。他说：“这是一个技术爱好者的天地。”
2000年，伊斯贝瑟创立了一个更正规的公司——Pozitron，开发电信应用方面的企业、网络和安全软件。伊斯贝瑟说，面临的挑战很多，包括招聘有经验的高级管理人员，这些人在土耳其供不应求。
这不是一个宣传活动。这是2006年在伊斯坦布尔的苏丹艾哈迈特广场看到的日蚀。
Pozitron开发的第一批成功的软件之一是为唯一的官方体育博彩游戏IDDAA设计的移动电话应用软件。几年后又有了重大突破：Pozitron利用为土耳其最大的私营银行——土耳其银行——开发的移动电话银行业务应用软件打入了国际金融市场。该应用软件使用户不论在世界任何地方都能转账、交易股票、付账及查询账户余额。
2007年，伊斯贝瑟被设在美国的一个提倡创业的非营利组织“奋进”(Endeavor)选为“高影响力的企业家”。一年后，Pozitron因为一个综合移动银行产品赢得了由哈佛商学院举办的全球商业计划大赛头奖。
伊斯贝瑟说：“在美国的一个跨国银行巨头发布他们自己的版本的同一个月里推出这一产品给了我巨大的满足感。”
他说，他的志向是参与创造无线产业的未来，与土耳其的朋友和竞争对手一起，打破土耳其没有高科技产业的不实之言。
“奋进”公司的埃尔迈拉·贝拉斯里（Elmira
Bayrasli)说，Pozitron的成功“不仅创造了就业机会，而且还鼓励其他土耳其人争当发明家。”
Read more:
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/chinese/publication/2011/07/20110714131717x0.9138104.html
Turkish Connection
10 May 2011
Studying at a secondary school in Daytona Beach, Florida, in the early 1990s was a memorable experience for Fatih Isbecer, an exchange student from Istanbul. He was enthralled by the technology revolution in the United States at the time, Isbecer said.
“I was filled with an entrepreneurial spirit and loaded with different technology ideas,” he recalled. “I felt that change would eventually affect Turkey.”
At the time Isbecer was in secondary school in Florida, Turkey was way behind the United States and other developed countries in telecommunications. Residential telephones were rare in rural areas. To make a phone call a person generally had to go to a local post office and wait for a connection.
Thanks to Turkish entrepreneurs such as Isbecer, the situation has changed dramatically.
In the late 1990s, Isbecer and some classmates from Istanbul Technical University started a small business that focused on Internet projects. “It was a kind of techies’ playground,” he said.
In 2000, Isbecer launched a more serious business, Pozitron, a firm that develops enterprise, networking and security software for telecommunications applications. Challenges were many, including recruiting experienced senior managers who were in short supply in Turkey, Isbecer said.
It's not a promotional event. It's the 2006 solar eclipse over Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul.
In 2007, Isbecer was selected a “high-impact entrepreneur” by Endeavor, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes entrepreneurship. A year later, Pozitron won the Global Business Plan Contest organized by Harvard Business School for an integrated, mobile-banking product.
“Launching this product in the same month that a large U.S.-based multinational bank released its own version gave me a huge satisfaction,” Isbecer said.
He said his ambition is to participate in shaping the future of the wireless industry and, together with his Turkish friends and rivals, dispel the myth that the high-tech sector in Turkey doesn’t exist.
Elmira Bayrasli of Endeavor said Pozitron’s success “worked not only to create jobs, but also to inspire other Turks to see themselves as innovators.”
(This is a product of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/iipdigital-en/index.html)
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