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Emre Elbeyoglu

Emre Elbeyoglu

CEO & Co-founder at Popupsmart.com Maker. Founder. Entrepreneur. Product. Growth. SEO.

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Emre Elbeyoglu and Nisa Selin Kosova at the microphones for Startup Talks #1 by Istanbul Ignited by Slush'D, under the title Pahalı Bir Ders

Popupsmart V2: More Features Cost Us 1.5 Years and $1M

I'm Emre Elbeyoglu, co-founder and CEO of Popupsmart, writing on my official website, elbeyoglu.com. The one Popupsmart decision I'd undo is V2: we built it because I believed in it, and it cost us 1.5 years and around $1M.

A hand holding the one-dollar kuka tesbih prayer beads on a sunny street

How a $1 Hook Sells a $100 Product

A man in a Gaziantep bazaar took a hundred times what I meant to spend, and I still can't find the moment he sold me anything.

The Chatbase homepage, headed 'AI Agents for magical customer experiences', with an AI Actions panel alongside

Google Killed Chatbase. A Solo Founder Built Another Chatbase to $10M With No Secret Network

I almost convinced myself a competitor's SEO success was rigged. Then I looked closer, and what I found is more useful than any conspiracy.

google my preferred sources

Why I built MyPreferredSources.com and why I'm giving it away

MyPreferredSources does exactly one thing. You type in your website, and it generates a small, copy-paste button. You can drop this button anywhere—your homepage, your newsletter, or the footer of every article.

12 Days, 3 Cities, and a New Chapter

After a divorce, a Google traffic crash, and one of the hardest stretches of my life, I did something I've never done before: I took 12 days off, left my MacBook behind, and traveled through Paris, Amsterdam, and London alone. This is what I found.

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