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From emerging regulation to deal mechanics, we write about the questions founders and investors actually ask: practical analysis you can put to work.
One GPL library that everyone assumed was free cost a startup four months of delay and a valuation discount at Series A. Copyleft, the AGPL-SaaS trap, and five steps of open source hygiene.
The term sheet was signed, and the round still died. The seven due-diligence findings that derail investments: broken IP chains, dirty cap tables, KVKK gaps, off-payroll payments and more.
From the vested-nothing ghost founder to the uncapped SAFE stack: seven real cases that wrecked ownership structures, and the lesson each one teaches.
Members vs shareholders, options and vesting, double taxation vs pass-through flexibility, QSBS and the foreign-founder trap: the C-Corp/LLC decision explained.
100% foreign ownership, A.Ş. vs Ltd., the 2026 capital deadline, MERSİS, banking reality, work permits and the mistakes to avoid: a practical 2026 guide.
Short answer: Residential site and apartment managements in Türkiye long struggled with a basic question: who is the “data controller”? …
