Leave & Become an Enterpreneur OR

Stay & Become an Intrapreneur

Elif Bakiler@Ebakiler

Which one are you?

Who wants to leave their job and start a company?

Who wants to stay in ther company but do new things?

19 years of intrapreneurship

Started as a Management TraineeNow a Digital Startup Coach

Done What Has Not Been Done Before

Many of the initial corporate web sites in TukeyFirst digital agencyFirst web design awardFirst e-retail siteFirst direct marketing agency

Builded and Helped To Build Many

Many corporate websites2 online marketplaces2 database marketing agencies2 local associations2 digital agencies1 e-retail site1 health portal1 kids community portal1 deal site1 digital advertising network

And Most Importantly

One Big Family

Intrapreneur OR Enterpreneur

Enterpreneur• Merriam-Webster: “one who organizes,

manages and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.”

• Dictionary.com: “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.

Intrapreneur• A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk taking and innovation.

• Intrapreneurs have entrepreneurial skills blended with managerial skills but operate within the confines of an organization.

* American Heritage Dictionary

Same SpiritProactiveRisk TakerWorkoholicMaking Dreams Reality TirelessStubbornLeading CreativityInventiveSelf-StarterPassionate

Same Spirit…Different Environment

Your Own Company A Large Carporation

Enterpreneur• Your own boss• No bureaucracy• Chance to be original• You decide on your own salary• Reward and appreciate your self

FREE

Enterpreneur

No secure paychecksNo benefits

Long working hoursIntolerable to mistakes

Tax burden

UNSECURE & ALONERISK & PAIN

Intrapreneur• Staying in a friendly well known environment

• Practicing your skills within a low risk environment

• Using companies’ resources, reputation and knowledge

• Access to customers and infrastructure

LOW RISK

LARGE PROJECTS

AVAILABLE RESOURCES

Gifford Pinchot’sThe Interpreneurs Ten Commandments

Come to work each day willing to be fired

Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream

Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description

Find people to help you

Work underground as long as you can – publicity triggers the corporate immune system

Build your team; intrapreneuring is not a solo activity.

Honor your sponsors

Remember , it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission

Be true to your goals, but be realistic about the ways to achieve them

Keep the best interests of the company and its customers in mind, especially when you have to

bend the rules or circumvent the bureaucracy

There Are Intrapreneurs Everywhere

There Are Intrapreneurs Everywhere

• Who invented Post-it at 3M?• Who developed the gamificaticon concept of foursquare?

• Wo developed  ‘’one click order’’ at amazon?• Who prepred the secure payment system of e-bay

• Who invented the CAPTCHA? 

Behind every web site, application, social network, web service you discover with delight there are intrapreneurs

Smart organizations will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of 

change. 

Intrapreneurs are most successful when management empowers and supports them and in turn the intrapreneurs 

represent the best interests of their organizations

There Are Intrapreneurs Everywhere

Are You One of Them?

Intrapreneurs are essential to innovation in large organizations.

The corporate world needs us now more than ever