Week 35.

Done last week:

• Project planning for our microgrid project
• Evaluated a number of solar startup investment opportunities
• Supported a founder/ceo of an early-stage education-focused startup
• Gave a talk on entrepreneurship to university students in Turkey (MEF Univ)
• Attended the 5th office hour session for our Solar Entrepreneurship course

To do this week:

• Thinking on SolarAcademy platform design
• Thinking on future solar learning paths and experiences
• Conversation with TUSIAD on the development of Turkey’s software industry and ecosystem 

Thoughts:

Scope.

What is on my mind this week is the concept of Scope. How to define it and stick to it? 

As I am transitioning to my third entrepreneurial act, I find myself being not only an entrepreneur but also an investor, advisor, coach, product manager, editor, and more. 

The mindset I operated under until now was always to focus on a few things and do them really well. And that is how many things work under the current economic model we operate in. 

Yet I find myself with the luxury and the means to cast a wider net in my interests as well as my hopes and dreams. So I set my scope a bit wider than the single identity of an investor or entrepreneur or advisor or coach. I am acting a little bit of each. 

My hope is that the dots connect at some point and my sometimes uncomfortably wide scope does become one thing that represents the creative vision that I hold in my heart. And that is what I call my SolarAcademy vision. A reality where people with power (and information) advantages share their advantages as a daily habit with those that can benefit from it.