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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.
AI that assigns shifts, scores productivity or flags “low performers” sits at the intersection of Turkish labour law, KVKK and the EU AI Act — where employment-related AI is high-risk by default and emotion recognition at work is banned outright.
The AI Act is enforced by national market surveillance authorities, the AI Office for GPAI, and data protection authorities in parallel — with fines up to €35M or 7% of global turnover, but capped and proportionate mechanics that SMEs should understand before panicking.
ROFR chains, board approvals, tag-along traps, pre- vs post-flip structuring, per-seller tax memos and the one-page company secondary policy — the mechanics of founder and employee liquidity, in deal order.
The expensive flip problems surface in the twelve months after closing: unsigned intercompany agreements, guessed transfer pricing, IP left behind, forked cap tables. Ten mistakes ranked by cost, and the month-one packet of seven documents.
Options never migrate automatically. The three routes, exchange, fresh grants, phantom, the 2024 Turkish tax exemption traps in a flip, and the six-step checklist that prevents the year-one mess.
Week 5 of the APY TEKMER HUB Investment Program: notes vs. loans, why YC invented the SAFE, cap-discount-MFN, the 4 June 2026 Teknogirişim legislation, and the most common mistakes in Türkiye-style SAFEs.
