OuE02: Ekin Caglar andThe New Wave of Social Media You Must Ride

This is the second episode of Open Up Europe podcast.  I am thrilled to bring you an inspiring entrepreneur from Turkey but living in UK - Ekin Caglar, the CTO of Woto.com.

About Ekin Caglar

Apart from being the top technical man of Woto Ekin Caglar is quite good at songwriting and production. He has been in the IT business since 25 years and has tons of valuable insights to share on how to build a B2C business. He also talks about well as transition from a B2B to a B2C business.

In the Interview

Ekin Caglar explains why we are experiencing a new era of Social Media and how to get the best out of it. We talk about how Woto got her first few customers. We talk about its technical backend. We talk about everything interesting! :) There are even a few freebie startup ideas thrown in :)

My favourite part of the conversation is where we talk and compare about the value of outsourcing with a view over different countries: India and its region versus Eastern Europe (mainly Russia, Poland,  Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey).

The resources mentioned in this episode

Microsoft (Azure) Blob Storage

Microsoft SQL Server

Service Oriented Architecture

Google Analytics 

Pingdom

Intercom 

Elastic Email

The show notes

[01:20] - The story of the name "Woto"

[02:15] - How did the founders of Woto come up with the idea

[03:40] - First tester of Woto :)

[08:10] - How did Ekin Caglar and his team Bootstrap Woto

[08:50] - What is Woto's business model?

[10:25] - The challenges of educating your customers for the new wave of Social Media

[12:20] - What's the next move coming from Woto?

[14:30] - The technology stack behind Woto

[16:55] - How did Woto manage to scale?

[19:00] - Outsourcing in India and Eastern Europe

[21:00] - A brilliant start up idea, free food for thought for you! :)

[23:50] - How did Ekin Caglar end up being an entrepreneur

[27:15] - Should you always follow the money?

[28:10] - The advice that Ekin Caglar would give to his 21 year old self.

[31:00] - The biggest advice of Ekin Caglar for entrepreneurs

[32:27] - Another startup idea! :)

[36:40] - How you can contact Ekin Caglar

If you have enjoyed today's episode please don't hesitate a moment to leave a comment under the post or contact me through the contact page or tweet to me. I am more than happy to connect!

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New Wave of Social Media

This is the second episode of Open Up Europe podcast.  I am thrilled to bring you an inspiring entrepreneur from Turkey but living in UK – Ekin Caglar, the CTO of Woto.com.

About Ekin Caglar

Apart from being the top technical man of Woto Ekin Caglar is quite good at songwriting and production. He has been in the IT business since 25 years and has tons of valuable insights to share on how to build a B2C business. He also talks about well as transition from a B2B to a B2C business.

In the Interview

Ekin Caglar explains why we are experiencing a new era of Social Media and how to get the best out of it. We talk about how Woto got her first few customers. We talk about its technical backend. We talk about everything interesting! There are even a few freebie startup ideas thrown in

My favourite part of the conversation is where we talk and compare about the value of outsourcing with a view over different countries: India and its region versus Eastern Europe (mainly Russia, Poland,  Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey).

The resources mentioned in this episode

Microsoft (Azure) Blob Storage

Microsoft SQL Server

Service Oriented Architecture

Google Analytics 

Pingdom

Intercom 

Elastic Email

The show notes

[01:20] – The story of the name “Woto”

[02:15] – How did the founders of Woto come up with the idea

[03:40] – First tester of Woto

[08:10] – How did Ekin Caglar and his team Bootstrap Woto

[08:50] – What is Woto’s business model?

[10:25] – The challenges of educating your customers for the new wave of Social Media

[12:20] – What’s the next move coming from Woto?

[14:30] – The technology stack behind Woto

[16:55] – How did Woto manage to scale?

[19:00] – Outsourcing in India and Eastern Europe

[21:00] – A brilliant start up idea, free food for thought for you!

[23:50] – How did Ekin Caglar end up being an entrepreneur

[27:15] – Should you always follow the money?

[28:10] – The advice that Ekin Caglar would give to his 21 year old self.

[31:00] – The biggest advice of Ekin Caglar for entrepreneurs

[32:27] – Another startup idea!

[36:40] – How you can contact Ekin Caglar

If you have enjoyed today’s episode please don’t hesitate a moment to leave a comment under the post or contact me through the contact page or tweet to me. I am more than happy to connect!

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