The “Jump Start Certificate Program for a Quick Start in Entrepreneurship,” organized by the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GINOVA) each semester and open to all ITU students, began its 2023-2024 spring semester training on March 13, 2024, with its first module.

ITU GINOVA Director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adnan Veysel Ertemel and our student Buğra Tosun, who completed previous Jump Start trainings and established his own venture, gave presentations on their experiences and opinions in the first module of the training. The training, which showed aspiring entrepreneurs how to design qualified experiments to validate their business ideas, included design thinking, business model design, and preparation for investor presentations. In addition, at the end of the training, participants had the opportunity to make presentations to a jury that included investors. Click here for more details.