BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Istanbul BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20160907T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:+03 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260420T203435Z UID:Wgnp6Q DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20240307T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20240307T210000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240209T113053 DESCRIPTION: Hosted by our SaaStock Local Istanbul City Leader\, Levent Ask an\, join us for an evening of insights about bootstrapping SaaS companies . \n\n According to Google Trends\, interest in the "bootstrapped" keyword has been rising\, especially in the last 2 years. \n\n In this event spon sored by Volosoft\; bootstrapped founders from Raklet\, Volosoft and Perso nalization will share the "pros" and "cons" of bootstrapping SaaS companie s. \n\n We will also have networking sessions before and after the session . \n\n ps: Please be aware that\, the local leader has a right to organize the event in English according to the number of foreign attendees.\n \n\n \n\n Event details: \n\n ❤️ Sponsored by: Volosoft \n\n 📅 Date: 7t h March - Thursday | 18:00 to 21:00 \n\n 📍 Location: TECH ISTANBUL | Ş İŞHANE \n\n Şişhane Metro Durağı\, Meşrutiyet Cd. Vergi Dairesi Gir işi No:125 D:1.Kat\, Beyoğlu/İstanbul \n\n 💰Ticket details: Regular 200₺\, Early Bird 100₺*. \n\n *Early Bird tickets are available until the 29th of February*. \n\n 🍕 Pizzas\, teas\, coffees and unlimited net working followed by a panel session and Q&\;A. ☕️ \n\n 18:00 - 19:0 0 -- >\; Networking\n19:00 - 20:00 -- >\; Speakers Session\n20:00 - 21 :00 -- >\; Networking \n\n \n\n Speakers: \n\n 🎙 Gerçek Karakuş\, F ounder\, Raklet \n\n Raklet is a membership management software for SMBs a nd Gerçek has been bootstrapping the company for almost 10 years. \n\n 🎙 Halil İbrahim Kalkan\, Co-Founder\, Volosoft \n\n Volosoft was found ed in 2016 and Halil İbrahim built an audience on Github before launching the company. Under the Volosoft brand\, they offer various free and paid solutions. They have customers from all around the world such as NASA\, Mi crosoft\, Siemens\, PWC\, and have been generating millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue. \n\n 🎙 İlke Karaboğalı\, Ex-Founder\, Pers onalization \n\n İlke was one of the founders of Personalization and they exited their company in the previous years through Empire Flippers. At th at time\, Personalization was one of the few options related to the recomm endation in the Shopify App Store.\n \n\n \n\n *Early Bird tickets are ava ilable until the 29th of February*.\nTicket prices will increase to 200₺ in the last week. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T125244 LOCATION:TECH ISTANBUL | ŞİŞHANE ORGANIZER:mailto:leventaskan@gmail.com SUMMARY:SaaStock Local Istanbul: The Pros and Cons of Bootstrapping SaaS Co mpanies URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/saastock/pros-cons-saas-bootstrapping URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/saastock/pros-cons-saas-bootstrapping END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR