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March 21, 2007
Esnaf24 Aims To Be MyHammer.de For Turkish Market
Frankfurt-based Cem Dalgic, an active reader of the a:c euro, told us last week about Socv.net and this week he has other news.
Dalgic is working on is soon-to-be-launchd Esnaf24.com. Esnaf means Handwerker (in German) or handyman (in English) - and it will (corrected text) mediate the service of handymen via reverse auction with built in service rating (corrected text). It's like MyHammer in Germany-- the future plan is to sell tools, nails, and d-i-y gear online.
It's "a premiere" in Turkey, he said, so much so that local TV covered the news about its formation.
Dalgic, along with business angels and private investors, has formed Istanbul-based LeVenture to invest in companies targeting the Turkish-speaking regions of the world.
As a Swiss/Turkish friend never tires of pointing out to us, there's a population of 205M with a common language reaching from Cyprus in Europe to China and Siberia and points in between, a legacy of the Ottoman empire.
We've reported that iLab Ventures, a local holding company, has invested in a handful of local web companies, including GittiGidiyor.com, a Turkish consumer online auction company.
Turkey itself has a very young population base.source: de.wikipedia.org
And there are a couple of other Turkish language sites that seem to do well out of Germany: Vaybee.com, a classic portal founded in Germany, and there's Bizimalem, a social network, which has more members in Germany than it does in Die Turkei.
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