Ari Kesisoglu

Personally I think the big thing is European VC's need to stop trying to be US VCs. Realize it's a totally different place and you have to invent a local model that works with the local realities. The conclusion of these comparisons always tends to be "how can we be more like the US vc model?" Which is the wrong approach. The real question, is how can we grow the European vc/startup industry, totally independently from a US model which obviously doesn't apply to Europe. - Yunus Celebiler

The "internet control" aspect is an editorial judgement. The face-value stated intent is purely to have a successful Turkey-based search engine. In terms of local versions of important technology, there is a viable (though debatable) case to be made for that. ie. that a government should try to encourage/fund an environment where startups flourish and produce local versions of important technologies/systems/infrastructures.But it's unclear if the Turkish govt will encourage or just try to build themselves. - Yunus Celebiler

"You'll like it :) I use librarything: http://www.librarything.com/catalog... OR http://www.librarything.com/catalog...... for Logic of Life or Radical Evolution sort of books. 2009/11/23 Disqus <>" - Ari Kesisoglu

"It was a great book really. I definitely think the acceleration (note that I don't only mean the 'current pace of growth' but 'the acceleration of the pace' as well) will continue. We're moving in exponential terms. Hard to guess the outcomes though, perhaps another blog post for me :) A book I recently read that discusses a few scenarios and indirectly touches some mechanisms that might slow it down is Radical Evolution: http://www.amazon.com/exec...... One particular challenge it presents is that after a certain threshold it will be hard for us to keep up with the pace (and hence the title of the book). There is hope though, after all atomic bombs did not continuously explode to destruct parts of our civilization during the last 60 years. You might find this one interesting as well." - Ari Kesisoglu

"Hey, thanks for the comment - you have good points. Let me clarify something: I definitely am not suggesting that a close system is actually fostering innovation (re your last sentence). We're in wild agreement in your point that an open system (or the internet) is helping innovation :) My (perhaps unclear) point is more on the lines of: If you do an overall good job with a product but be closed while doing it, which normally would be a bad thing, you could still be doing good to consumers initially or for a while. On Windows being an open system, my (unsuccessful) attempt was more to touch the point that it was almost impossible to buy a PC without windows for long time (I'm exaggerating). So it's not that Windows itself was closed, but PCs were naturally closed for a while. Your point is fair though, on second read it doesn't appear clear from my writing. On Apple, your points actually don't seem to be against my 'catalyst' theory. The fact that someone would actually fix digital..." - Ari Kesisoglu