Entrepreneurship Guide: From Idea to Sustainable Growth

Entrepreneurship is the work of noticing a need, building a solution that creates value against it, assembling the resources that solution requires, and turning all of it into a sustainable activity under uncertainty. The strength of a venture shows less in how much interest the idea attracts, how many features the product carries or how impressive the pitch is, and more in what the customer is prepared to do to get the solution.

Artificial intelligence is changing many stages of that process. Research drafts, prototypes, software development and operational work can now run with far more automation. AI agents can reach information, use tools and complete multi-step tasks within the permissions they are given. What has not changed is the founder’s core agenda: customer need, trust, distribution, cost and accountability.

At Webtures we treat entrepreneurship as one continuous body of work: understanding the problem, validating demand, creating value, delivering that value to the right customer and improving the model that carries it. We read strategy alongside daily operations, visibility alongside customer acquisition, and AI usage alongside measurable business outcomes. This guide covers the decisions that sit between testing your first idea and pitching an investor, between cash planning and running a business that works with agents, with worked examples throughout.

1. What is an entrepreneur, and what kinds of ventures are there?

An entrepreneur is someone who identifies an opportunity or a problem, organises people, knowledge, capital and technology to build a solution, and takes on the decisions and risks the resulting activity produces. Entrepreneurship does not require inventing a new technology. Meeting an existing need in a more accessible, more reliable, cheaper or more usable way is entrepreneurship too.

Opening a business and finding a repeatable, scalable business model are two different stages. Incorporation creates a legal structure; the validity of a business model is tested by customer behaviour. The Lean Startup approach likewise treats new ventures as organisations building products and services under high uncertainty, and puts learning at the centre of management. 1

Not every venture is aiming at the same thing

Building a small, profitable business and building a company that can raise global investment call for different design choices. Judging a venture that never intended to raise money purely against an investor’s scale expectations produces bad decisions. At the outset the aim is a deliberate balance between income, independence, impact, growth and risk appetite.

2. The founder’s mindset: how to think and how to prepare

Thinking like a founder means observing the problems you run into, questioning assumptions, generating options with limited resources, and being willing to change your decision when the evidence changes. It takes judgement as much as courage. You are not obliged to pursue every opportunity, nor to persist with the same idea through every obstacle.

A founder’s motivation matters. But excitement about an idea does not demonstrate that a customer wants the solution. A founder has to assess their own desire, the market’s need and the economics of the business as three separate questions.

Questions to ask yourself before you start

• Why do I want to build this, and how does my life change if it works?
• Whose problems do I genuinely understand?
• Do I have a relationship, a channel or an area of expertise that reaches the first customers?
• How much time can I commit, and what loss can I absorb?
• Which skills can I supply myself, and where do I need help?
• What evidence would make me change my mind?

Writing the answers on a single page will not remove uncertainty; it makes the boundaries your decisions rest on visible. A founder who can commit a set number of hours a week for six months needs a different plan from a venture with a full-time team and a long runway.

Passion, discipline and flexibility work together

Passion supplies the energy to start and to keep going. Discipline is what keeps customer interviews, collections and product work running on schedule. Flexibility is what lets you choose a new route when the evidence stops supporting the current idea.

Keeping a decision log strengthens that balance. Record the date, the assumption, the expected outcome and the condition that would trigger a re-evaluation. That way you can see what you knew on the day rather than judging past decisions purely by how they turned out.

Turn motivation into a working routine

Wanting to work on something with the same enthusiasm for years does not measure the idea’s commercial validity. More useful questions: do I want to keep learning about this customer group? How will I handle the repeating work of selling, collecting and supporting? If results fall short, what support and alternatives do I have?

Founder thinking does not require carrying the whole business alone either. Separate the work you will do yourself, the work you will bring in help for, and the work you will automate. Alongside product work, put customer interviews, cash checks and decision reviews in your weekly plan.

Decide what you want to learn before you share the idea

Describing the problem, the expected benefit and the proposed solution to a potential customer speeds up learning. That does not mean opening trade secrets, private customer data or unprotected technical detail to everyone. Share what the conversation’s purpose requires, and take anything material to IP or confidentiality to a specialist.

3. What changes for entrepreneurs in the AI era?

Artificial intelligence offers a founder three distinct opportunities: doing existing work more efficiently, offering customers new AI products, and preparing for customer journeys mediated by agents. Each requires a different investment and a different validation path.

Anthropic draws a distinction between workflows that follow predetermined steps and agents that manage process and tool selection more dynamically. That distinction matters to a founder: not every automation needs to be designed as an agent. A more complex structure is only worth it when the result covers its cost and its management burden. 6

Where does competitive advantage come from now?

In our assessment at Webtures, as access to off-the-shelf AI capability becomes universal, having access to a model becomes a weaker point of differentiation on its own. More durable advantage tends to come from a combination: detailed understanding of the customer’s work, quality data you have the right to use, reliable integration, strong distribution, and measured results.

This does not mean every AI venture should train its own model. The first move is usually to validate the business problem with existing tools. The decision to build proprietary technology belongs later, when available solutions fall short on quality, cost, privacy or performance.

The question a founder should ask about the future is this: “If the underlying AI capability becomes cheaper and more widespread tomorrow, why will my customer keep working with us?” If the answer is only the name of the model you use, the value proposition needs rethinking.

4. Ten rules for a good venture idea

The aim in assessing an idea is not to make a flawless prediction. It is to find which assumption should be tested first. The rules below are not a guarantee of success or a scientific scoring system; they are a decision framework for comparing ideas.

1. Define a concrete problem

“Making people’s lives easier” is too broad to start from. Describe the problem through a specific person, situation and outcome: “Small manufacturers lose time comparing quote requests that arrive in different formats.” That definition tells you who to interview and what to measure.

2. Investigate how often the problem occurs and what it costs

Not every annoyance is a commercial opportunity. Find out how often the problem happens, how much time or money it costs, and what happens when it goes unsolved. A rare problem can still be valuable if its consequences are large.

3. Separate the user from the payer

The person using the product, the person deciding to buy and the person controlling the budget can all be different. In business sales especially, that separation shapes the sales process as much as the product’s benefit does.

4. See the alternatives that already exist

Competitors are not limited to companies selling the same product. Today the customer may be solving the job with an employee, a consultant, a spreadsheet, a general-purpose AI tool, or by doing nothing at all. That existing behaviour is the real benchmark.

5. Choose a narrow starting point

In the first version, focus on solving one important job for one customer group. That choice does not have to limit future growth. It makes it clearer where the product actually works.

6. Explain how you will reach the first customer

Being good at building a product does not substitute for being able to reach customers. If you cannot say where the first ten prospects will come from, your distribution hypothesis is incomplete. Communities, existing relationships, industry partners and targeted direct outreach are all viable starting routes.

7. Think about revenue and delivery cost together

Work out what the customer will pay and what producing that value costs you. For AI products, include inference, retries and human review in the calculation. High usage does not automatically mean high profitability.

8. Answer the “why now” question

A new technology, a shift in customer habit, a regulation, a distribution channel or a change in cost may be what makes the opportunity possible. “AI is taking off” is not a sufficient explanation on its own. Show which change made which customer problem newly solvable.

9. Test the most fragile assumption early

If building the product is easy but getting the necessary data is hard, the first test should be data access. If demand exists but the purchase cycle exceeds your financial capacity, the commercial process is what needs testing. The easiest piece of work is not always the most important one.

10. Design how your edge compounds

What new knowledge does each customer give you? Which integrations get added to the workflow? How do you document results? A venture’s progress should not be measured in feature count alone; learning and service quality have to accumulate too.

Quick exercise: Against each rule, write “assumption”, “early signal” or “validated behaviour”. Take the item that is most critical yet still only an assumption, and make it your next experiment. Designing experiments to produce evidence is the central focus of Testing Business Ideas as well. 5

5. Market research and choosing a target customer

Market research is broader than reading an industry’s size. It covers the nature of demand, customer behaviour, existing alternatives, payment conditions and barriers to entry. The SBA’s business planning guidance likewise recommends assessing demand, market size, location, price and competition together. 3

Define the ideal customer profile through business context

“SMEs”, “entrepreneurs” or “people aged 20 to 45” are not sufficient profiles on their own. For a B2B product, industry, headcount, transaction volume, existing software, purchasing authority and the moment the problem occurs are all more informative. For a B2C product, usage context, habits, price sensitivity and purchase motivation matter more.

A B2B profile might be built like this: “Small manufacturing businesses that receive quote requests by email, have no standardised quoting system, and whose sales team spends measurable time per quote.” That is not market data; it is a starting definition that research has to validate.

Calculate market size from the bottom up

TAM describes the total theoretical market, SAM the part your business model and geography can actually serve, and SOM the share you could realistically win in a given period. Deriving these by taking arbitrary percentages off one large industry figure is misleading.

A purely hypothetical example: suppose your sources indicate 2,000 eligible businesses and an annual contract value of 30,000 TL. The theoretical annual revenue potential of that defined segment is 2,000 × 30,000 = 60 million TL. But if in the first year you can hold qualified conversations with 200 businesses and convert 15% of them, your capacity-based target is 30 customers. If all of them received a full year of service from the same date, the contract value would be 900,000 TL; sales spread through the year produce different recognised revenue and different collections.

Research competitors around the purchase decision

AI can be used to classify public information and generate research questions. But the competitor list, price table or market size it produces should not be treated as fact. Add a source, an access date and a verification status to every record. Keep anything unsupported by customer interviews or official data as a hypothesis.

Separate direct, indirect and budget competition

A direct competitor offers a similar solution to the same customer. An indirect competitor meets the same need by a different method. Budget competition is the customer allocating the same resource to a different priority. The last of these is not a standard competitor classification; it is an additional lens for understanding the purchase decision.

A quoting tool’s direct competitor might be another quoting product. The indirect alternative is an employee, a spreadsheet or a general-purpose AI tool. If the customer is weighing the same budget against a new salesperson or a machine, categories outside your market shape the decision too. In interviews, ask “what other priorities compete for this budget?” alongside “what would you buy instead of us?”

Which question does each research tool answer?

Google Trends data is based on sampling and is normalised on a 0–100 scale against the selected time range and geography, so 100 does not mean “100 searches”. 25 Search Console is for assessing your own site’s search performance. 26 Similarweb models multiple data sources to produce inferences about digital traffic; label those results as estimates. 27

Observing a competitor’s ad message or content strategy does not mean you know their budget or the campaign’s profitability. In your research table, keep observed fact, calculated estimate and hypothesis to verify in separate columns.

Use SWOT and PESTEL to produce decisions

SWOT considers strengths and weaknesses alongside opportunities and threats. PESTEL is used to examine political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal external factors. CIPD’s notes on both frameworks cover how such analysis can feed planning. 32 33

Do not settle for generic phrases such as “strong team” or “AI opportunity”. Write down the evidence for the statement and its effect on a decision. The examples below are hypothetical:

For every material observation, name an owner, an indicator to watch and a review date. The output of analysis is not a list of labels; it is a statement of which decision changes under which condition.

6. Idea validation and customer interviews

Validation is more than measuring whether people like your idea. It tests whether the problem is genuinely experienced, whether the solution creates value, and whether the customer will commit resources to that value. The Mom Test focuses on reducing biased feedback in customer interviews and reading purchase likelihood more accurately. 2

Ask about past behaviour, not future intent

Opening an interview with a long product pitch skews the answers. Start by understanding the person’s work and the last time the problem occurred. The questions below are the interview outline this guide suggests:

1. When did you last run into this problem?
2. How did you solve it at the time?
3. Who was involved, and how long did it take?
4. What did that method cost you?
5. Which alternatives did you consider?
6. What conditions would need to be met to try a new solution?
7. Who makes the purchase decision, and which budget covers it?
8. What would be a sensible next step: sample data, a demo, a pilot or a quote?

Ten to fifteen interviews in a narrow segment is a reasonable start. That number is not a validation standard. The aim is to see repeating behaviours and meaningful differences. Positive opinions from people in the same social circle do not represent the demand of a market.

Tell strong evidence from weak

Letters of intent, promised meetings and pipeline records are not revenue. A paid pilot is evidence bounded by its scope and duration. Rather than generalising a few positive cases to the whole market, look for results that repeat across different customers.

Design every experiment around a decision

Your experiment record should carry: the assumption, the target customer, the test method, the duration, the budget, the measurement, the success threshold and the decision that follows the result. Changing the threshold after the experiment finishes raises the risk of dressing a negative result as a positive one.

You might set a target such as: “In four weeks we will quote ten eligible businesses; if at least three start a pilot at the stated fee, we move on to the delivery test.” That is not an industry benchmark; it is a threshold the team chose against its own resources. If the result is weak, assess the message, the segment, the price and the solution itself separately.

AI-generated customer personas can help you prepare for interviews. Synthetic responses must not be reported as research conducted with real customers. Features the product does not yet have, and the conditions of delivery, should also be stated plainly to a prospect.

7. Business model and pricing

A business model explains who you serve, with what value, through which resources and channels, at what cost, and how you earn revenue in return. Strategyzer’s Business Model Canvas makes those relationships visible on one page across nine building blocks. A completed canvas does not mean a validated business; it is expected to change as new evidence arrives. 4

The nine building blocks of your model

Ventures using AI should add data usage rights, the model provider, human review, cost per transaction and liability for errors to that canvas. Those additional fields are this guide’s recommendation.

Match the revenue model to the value the customer receives

For agentic products, selling seats alone may not fit every use case. A customer may prefer to pay for completed work rather than for the number of people logging in. But in an outcome-based model, “successful outcome” has to be defined clearly: is it the draft produced, the draft the user accepted, or the sale that was collected?

Do not set price by looking only at competitors

In pricing work, weigh the cost of the current solution, the economic value delivered, willingness to pay, delivery cost and the sales process together. You are not obliged to create three tiers. Early on, one offer with clear scope will teach you more than a pricing page crowded with options.

Before promising unlimited usage on an AI service, examine heavy users and expensive tasks. Usage limits, included transaction counts, overage fees and the scope of human review should be legible in the contract. A cost the customer could not foresee weakens trust even when it produces short-term revenue.

A free trial and freemium are not the same decision

A free trial offers a chance to evaluate the product for a set period or scope. Freemium carries a permanent free tier, with the paid tier adding value on top. The acquisition and service costs of the two differ.

When designing a free tier for an AI product, identify which operations create cost and at what point the user needs the paid benefit. Growing the number of free users should not be a goal on its own. Paid conversion, the retention of converted customers and the total cost of free usage have to be read together.

Plan time-to-first-sale and time-to-first-cash separately

The dates on which the product is finished, the contract is signed, the service is delivered and the payment arrives can all differ. For the resilience of the business, the time to first collection matters most. That period does not depend only on development speed; purchase approval, data migration, the pilot, invoicing and payment terms all affect it.

Hypothetical example: if a customer takes four weeks of sales conversations, then two weeks of setup, then four weeks to pay, and the stages run sequentially, first cash arrives around week ten. Running some steps in parallel shortens it. Cutting development time with AI does not automatically remove the approval and payment waits on the customer’s side.

8. A venture project template

A venture project brings together the idea, the work to be done, who owns it and the order of validation. A long business plan is not needed at every stage. You can start with a short project summary that serves decision-making, then add detail as technical and commercial needs demand.

The template below is a starting document you can share inside the team. Next to every claim, add either the source or the words “assumption to validate”.

For a project to be legible, what it does not know has to be visible too. If the customer’s budget has not been researched, make that the subject of the first commercial test rather than hiding it. If the technical integration is uncertain, put a small feasibility trial ahead of the full product timeline.

Connect strategy to a goal, an indicator and a piece of work

“Growing in the market” states a direction but does not explain today’s priority. Define that direction together with the customer outcome you want, the indicator you will track and the work you will do. The goal “validate the value of the quoting process in the first segment” translates into a pilot that measures accepted quotes, the need for corrections and the decision to continue on a paid basis.

Weekly tasks should serve that goal. Redoing the logo, refreshing the deck or adding a feature all get done when needed; none of them should permanently displace testing the critical customer assumption. A roadmap should show dependencies as clearly as dates: what information, permission, data or customer decision does each piece of work wait on?

The value proposition sentence

“For [specific customer group], we aim to solve [the problem experienced in a specific situation] through [the proposed solution] and deliver [a measurable outcome]. We do this with [an approach that differs from the current alternative].”

“We aim” is the right verb while the outcome is unvalidated. Once real customer data exists you can replace the aim with the result, and state the scope and measurement method alongside it.

9. The MVP and building the first product

MVP stands for minimum viable product. Its purpose is to build the smallest workable solution that can test the venture’s critical assumption with a real user. In the Lean Startup methodology, the MVP exists to start the build-measure-learn loop. 1

A small first product does not mean low standards of safety or honesty. Scope can be narrowed; the accuracy of what you promise and what you deliver has to hold.

An MVP is not always software

In software ventures especially, AI makes rapid prototyping possible, but a working demo is not the same as a product ready for production. Before opening to real customers, authentication, separation of customer data, payments, backups and error handling all need addressing.

Set the boundaries of the first version of an AI product

The first version of a quoting product might accept only certain document types, take prices from a verified table, and put the final quote in front of a human for approval. Where a file is unsupported, the product should state its limitation rather than produce a guess.

Working with a small number of examples early on speeds up learning. But performing well on the examples you saw while building is not enough. Run a separate evaluation on new and different examples, and include failures in the measurement. For agent evaluations, examining completed real tasks, transaction logs and quality criteria together is the recommended approach. 7

Tie the first-run experience to a single outcome

How long after opening an account does the user see the first benefit? What data do they have to enter? Where do they need help? Define your “activation” event against that outcome. In a quoting product, producing the first usable quote is a more meaningful starting metric than opening an account.

Prioritise bug fixing by customer impact

Debugging is not a stage you finish once at the end of development. New features, data or integrations create new problems. Set priority not by bug count but by impact on customer loss, incorrect transactions, data access and completion of the core job.

A misaligned button and a quote sent to the wrong customer do not belong at the same priority. Record the conditions under which the bug reproduces, the users affected and the example that confirms the fix. Rolling the product out gradually and keeping a path back to the last working version produce more controlled learning in real use.

10. AI agents and operational design

An AI agent is a software system that, within a given objective and set of permissions, can gather information, use tools and choose steps to move work forward. For a venture, its value is judged not by how human it sounds but by which job it completes and how reliably.

Design the process first, the automation second

Automating a messy or contradictory workflow accelerates the errors too. First define the input, the expected output, the decision rules, the exceptions and the responsible person. Then decide which part runs on rule-based automation, which on AI support, and which requires human judgement.

That table is a proposed permission design. Boundaries shift with the impact of the work, how reversible it is, and the controls you already have.

Give every agent a task contract

A task definition should carry: the objective, the permitted sources, the tools available, write permissions, transaction and spending limits, the cases requiring approval, the behaviour on failure, and the logging arrangement. A broad goal such as “improve customer satisfaction” is not sufficient on its own.

A quoting agent might be told: “Draft a quote from the approved product catalogue; report the gap when stock or price data is missing; do not apply discounts; do not send to the customer without human approval.” That binds the task to the permission.

Increase autonomy in stages

In the first stage an agent can run with read-only access and the ability to propose. In the next it can take limited actions after human approval. When repeated tests and real usage have built enough confidence, more autonomy can be granted for specific low-impact work.

Consider resends and interruptions for every transaction. An order request retried after a connection failure must not create a second order. Transaction identifiers, logs and rollback paths are therefore part of product design.

Do not measure quality by averages alone

Useful indicators include successful task rate, rework rate, human intervention, total cost per task, latency and the number of critical errors. Keep the denominator of the success rate explicit: is it every eligible task that entered the system, or only the ones that completed? Excluding failed attempts from the measurement hides reality.

Anthropic’s 2026 evaluation guidance covers using different evaluation methods together for different tasks, and calibrating model-based evaluations against expert human judgement. A venture can apply that through representative tasks, a separate holdout set and tracking of real usage. 7

Keep your process knowledge as the technology changes

Anthropic’s April 2026 architectural assessment notes that as models improve, the assumptions baked into the scaffolding around them can go stale. 8 The implication for a founder: it helps not to leave business rules, test cases, data definitions and customer knowledge locked inside a single provider’s interface.

Building an integration with every provider at once creates unnecessary cost early. Work with the solution you need, but keep the ability to export critical data, to keep a version record and to evaluate a move to an alternative provider.

11. Agentic commerce and an agent-ready venture

Agentic commerce is the approach in which AI agents carry out part of product discovery, comparison, purchase or after-sales work within the need and the permissions the customer defines. Being mentioned in an AI answer and being able to complete a reliable transaction are two different capabilities.

There is concrete protocol work in this area. Stripe and OpenAI announced the Agentic Commerce Protocol on 29 September 2025. Google announced the Universal Commerce Protocol on 11 January 2026. Those announcements do not mean the same transaction capabilities exist in every country, for every merchant and every product; commercial access depends on platform and country conditions. 16 17

What does an agent want to know about your business?

Imagine the customer says “find me a product within my budget that can be delivered before a given date”. The agent does not need a compelling brand narrative; it needs comparable attributes, a current price, stock status and delivery terms. For service businesses the same need arises around scope, eligibility, availability, fees and cancellation terms.

Not every one of those transactions has a ready integration on today’s platforms. The table shows the scope of information and process preparation a business should aim for on its own side.

What does each protocol actually do?

That summary follows the protocols’ own documentation. They do not solve the same need, and supporting one does not grant automatic access to every platform. An MCP connection on its own does not create payments, customer consent or security compliance. 17 18 19 20 21

A workable order for agent readiness

1. Organise the information. Make product and service definitions, prices and terms consistent.
2. Manage freshness. Decide which system is the source of truth for stock, calendar and price.
3. Define the transaction. Write down the valid states and failure paths of a quote, booking or order.
4. Bound the authority. Tie user identity, transaction scope, amount and approval conditions together.
5. Try one use case. Start on a channel your customer uses and you can actually reach.
6. Measure the result. Track wrong information, abandoned transactions, duplicate actions and support load.

Webtures’ expectation is that in some categories, reaching the customer will broaden from people browsing pages to agents evaluating options. How fast that reshapes commerce overall is not settled. The most durable preparation available today is making the value your business offers clear, verifiable, current and transactable.

12. Brand, customer acquisition and AI visibility

A brand is not just a name and a visual identity. It is about which need makes the customer remember you, why they trust you and what outcome they expect. In a new venture, clarity of positioning matters more than repeating the same message across every channel.

Instead of a broad narrative such as “an AI-powered innovative platform”, explain what you provide, to whom, in what situation. Tie the technical feature to a customer outcome. Do not present unmeasured gains in speed or revenue as firm promises.

A focused plan for winning the first customers

Choosing one main segment and one main channel early makes learning easier. In B2B ventures, founders running customer conversations themselves hear the objections first-hand. In local services, visibility in the immediate area and referrals matter; for a digital product, usage experience and relevant communities play different roles.

You can track a sales process through these stages: target account or person, first contact, qualified conversation, quote, pilot or first purchase, repeat use. Record why you lose at each stage. If quotes are rising but sales are not, assess the fit of the offer before buying more traffic.

Do not compress the customer journey into a single ad campaign

Customer acquisition is a chain of connected decisions from first contact through to after the purchase. AI can support research and communication in that process, but automating a flow that does not understand the customer’s need only magnifies the problem.

Building visibility and referrals on a small budget

Word of mouth grows when a customer passes on a benefit they experienced. Do not leave that behaviour to a “please refer us” request. Produce a distinct result the customer can describe, prepare a shareable example, and ask for feedback at the right moment. Plan any use of references and customer stories with the permission of the person or business involved.

Three small experiments are worth considering early: solving a real problem inside a community your audience uses, running a joint session with a business offering a complementary service, or publishing the result of a pilot as a concrete case. Set the budget, audience and follow-up method of each experiment in advance. Do not use event attendance, meeting requests and paying customers interchangeably.

The same standard applies to the unconventional, low-budget tactics often called guerrilla marketing: which customer behaviour does the attention serve? A stunt unrelated to the brand promise can be widely discussed and still contribute little to sales or trust. Judge the experiment on the quality of the audience and the next step it produced, not on reach alone.

Build an information structure legible to people and AI systems

Your site should answer these plainly: What do you offer? Who is it right for? Who is it not right for? How do you work? What are the pricing or quoting terms? Which results are verified? How are data and the customer relationship handled?

Google states that eligibility to be shown as a link inside AI Overviews and AI Mode requires no additional technical requirement or special AI schema. Indexability, visible text, internal links and structured data consistent with the content remain the basis. Those conditions do not guarantee appearance. 15

So do not build on the assumption that adding one file or markup will produce AI visibility. Produce original information, clear comparisons, verifiable examples and accurate product data. Rather than many shallow pages repeating each other, build resources that move the customer’s decision forward.

Search visibility, GEO and the ability to transact with agents

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization; it focuses on improving how content surfaces in generative answer systems. The research paper introducing the concept was first published in November 2023 and later accepted at KDD 2024. Experiments in this area have to be read alongside the platforms studied and the conditions of use; the same performance should not be assumed across every system. 28

For a venture it helps to consider these together, because a customer may search, then take a recommendation from an AI system, then hand the transaction to an agent in a suitable environment. Each stage has its own preparation and its own success criterion.

That table is this guide’s working framework. Content quality, technical accessibility and reliable product information are the shared foundation; improving one does not make the others unnecessary.

Measure visibility and commercial outcome together

Brand mentions in AI answers, citations, referral traffic, qualified enquiries and completed transactions are separate indicators. A visibility result on a chosen question set does not represent your share of the whole market. Answers shift as the question, language, country, date and platform change.

For your venture, the priority is measurable customer acquisition. Read AI visibility alongside classic search, communities, partnerships, direct sales and referrals. Be careful not to draw firm conclusions about which touch contributed to a sale from a single last-click record.

When assessing return on ad spend, separate ROAS from profitability. In a simplified example, if 10,000 TL of ad spend is attributed 30,000 TL in net sales, ROAS is 3. If the pre-advertising contribution margin on those sales is 40%, contribution is 12,000 TL and the contribution remaining after ad spend is 2,000 TL. On that definition, contribution-based return on ad spend is 20%. Since fixed costs, financing and taxes have not been deducted, that figure is not the company’s net profit. And a report attributing sales to advertising does not prove all those sales occurred only because of the advertising.

13. Financial planning and unit economics

Making sales, being profitable and holding enough cash are three different conditions. A business selling on credit terms can look profitable and still struggle to pay its bills because collections are late. A business that collects subscriptions up front carries services it still has to deliver.

In the starting budget, track one-off costs such as incorporation and equipment separately from ongoing costs such as salaries, rent, software and service delivery. The SBA’s cost planning approach likewise separates one-time from monthly expenses. 3

The core calculations to track

A worked example for an AI venture

The figures below are a calculation example, not a budget or market data. Suppose a product’s net monthly revenue per customer is 2,000 TL. AI usage costs 250 TL, other variable infrastructure and transaction costs 100 TL, and variable human review and support attributed to the customer 350 TL.

• Total variable cost: 250 + 100 + 350 = 700 TL
• Monthly contribution per customer: 2,000 − 700 = 1,300 TL
• Contribution margin: 1,300 / 2,000 = 65%
• If CAC is 3,900 TL, simple payback: 3,900 / 1,300 = 3 months
• If monthly fixed costs are 130,000 TL, simple break-even: 130,000 / 1,300 = 100 customers

This is a simplified example excluding tax, financing, currency movement, churn, capacity additions and collection delays. CAC contains acquisition effort while variable support cost contains service effort; the same expense must not be counted twice.

The real AI cost per task

Looking only at the price of a single model call is incomplete. Include every retry, the tools used, data access, human review and the correction of failed work in the cost of a task. If 100 tasks cost 1,000 TL in total and 80 results are accepted, cost per accepted result is 1,000 / 80 = 12.50 TL. That definition carries the cost of the failures too.

Build three cash scenarios

Model when sales land, how collections behave, how costs rise and how much cash you need under a base case, a slow case and a stress case. For example, 600,000 TL of available cash against 100,000 TL of monthly net burn gives roughly six months under stable conditions. A one-off 150,000 TL payment invalidates that arithmetic.

In young ventures, extending customer lifetime value across many years from very little data is misleading. First observe the usage, renewal and contribution of the cohorts you actually have. Keep long-range forecasts clearly separated from realised results.

Turn the budget into a payment calendar

Annual totals for revenue and cost do not show which week you run short. In practice you can keep two views: the coming 12 months monthly, and the near term weekly, for example across 13 weeks. Choose the horizon against your sales cycle and how often cash moves.

Each period should show opening cash, expected collections, obligatory payments, deferrable spend and closing cash. Do not confuse the invoice date with the collection date. Separate contracted receivables from opportunities still at quote stage. Where long-term services are collected up front, keep the future cost of delivery visible too.

A cash plan should end in a decision: at what level do you defer new spending, tighten collections or evaluate financing? Setting that threshold after the cash runs out narrows your options.

14. Setting up in Türkiye and data responsibilities

The legal and financial structure of a business follows from its activity, ownership, customer profile, staffing, investment plan and liabilities. Choosing a company type on incorporation cost alone can create additional needs later around investment, contracts or operations. Requirements specific to your activity should be settled with an accountant and the relevant legal specialist.

The Ministry of Trade explains MERSİS’s role in conducting incorporation and other registry transactions for companies and commercial enterprises electronically. Having incorporated does not mean every permit the activity requires has been obtained. 11

Areas to settle according to your activity

These are assessment headings, not a claim that the same record or document is mandatory for every business. In regulated sectors especially, calling a product a pilot does not remove obligations.

Build physical, digital or hybrid operations around the need

Choose operational infrastructure against what the service actually requires, not against appearances. In a physical business, location, access, capacity, equipment and supply matter. In a digital one, service continuity, access permissions, backups and support flow come first. In a hybrid model, the online promise and the physical delivery have to run on the same order and customer record.

Early on, answer these: where will orders arrive, who delivers the work, how will a delay be noticed and who does the customer reach? Establish ownership of the domain, the payment account and critical software accounts explicitly. Concentrating access in one employee’s personal account makes continuity hard when the team changes. Before buying an office or an expensive technology bundle, write down which concrete capacity need the purchase solves.

Handle personal data carefully when using AI

The Turkish data protection authority’s November 2025 guide on generative AI and personal data sets out that processing principles, legal basis, transparency and security apply to AI processes as well. Data use should be limited to defined purposes; the necessary information must be given to the user and the need for retention assessed. 9

Before moving customer lists, call recordings and documents into an AI system, decide which data is genuinely required. Transferring personal data to providers abroad requires separate assessment. The authority’s current guidance on transfers covers appropriate safeguards such as standard contracts, subject to the applicable conditions. “We took the user’s consent” does not on its own explain every processing and transfer condition. 10

AI ventures entering the EU market

According to the European Commission’s current guidance, the general application date of the AI Act is 2 August 2026, with exceptions and transition timetables for different obligations and use categories. The AI product’s role, intended purpose and how it is placed on the market all matter. Using a model and being a model provider do not necessarily carry the same set of responsibilities. Assess your product’s scope against current official guidance before opening to EU customers. 12

15. Funding and startup support

Funding choice should match the venture’s growth rate and risk profile. Not every venture needs outside investment. Growing on customer revenue, equity capital, debt and grant programmes each create different obligations and different freedoms.

Assess KOSGEB support against your business model

Türkiye’s KOSGEB Entrepreneur Support Programme sets different conditions under its Business Start-up and Business Development headings. The current programme page defines business age, sector, registration and declaration requirements separately. Business Development Support applies to specific activity areas; it is not granted automatically to every new business. 13

When applying, examine the eligible expense, the payment timing, whether it is repayable, the own-funds requirement and the current call schedule. Do not count an unapproved grant as certain cash. Your financial model should also show how you proceed if the application is rejected or the payment is delayed.

What will the investment accelerate?

Do not leave the ask at the level of “hire a team and do marketing”. State which uncertainty the money reduces: demonstrating technical feasibility, completing paid pilots, validating renewal, or scaling distribution that already works. That ties the funding request to the evidence it will produce, not only to the spending it enables.

16. The pitch and preparing for investors

A pitch should let the other side grasp the logic of the business and its evidence quickly. Sequoia’s business plan guidance emphasises a clear account of purpose, problem, solution, timing, market, competition, business model, team and financials. 14

The twelve-part structure below is this guide’s suggestion, combining those fundamentals with the product and operations questions of the AI era:

Name your numbers accurately

Do not present registered users as active users, a pilot customer as an annual contract, or a pipeline opportunity as revenue. Do not fold one-off consulting income into subscription revenue. MRR describes monthly recurring revenue; it is not always the same as one month’s total invoicing.

In an AI pitch, rather than showing only successful demos, explain where the product can fail and how that is managed. It shows you understand the technical limits and have thought about commercial liability.

Preparing a deck with AI

AI can help simplify the narrative, generate likely questions and organise the outline. But verify every piece of market data, customer reference, financial result and founder claim you add. Charts the tool generated and placeholder customer logos must not be presented as real evidence.

Compare presentation tools against what your preparation actually needs, not against brand recognition:

This list is not a performance ranking. Free usage, feature scope, data handling and export terms change, so check the current plan when you choose. Assess sharing and data terms before uploading confidential documents to a tool. Automating the design does not remove your responsibility for verifying the numbers inside the deck.

Complete the story with evidence

A good opening makes the customer’s situation visible. For a hypothetical quoting product, the narrative might run: “After receiving the request, the sales rep assembles prices and terms from separate files. Our solution prepares that information from authorised sources; the rep reviews it before going to the customer.” Then show measured time, error and usage data if you have it. Where you have no real measurement, do not present the example as a result.

Slides built for a live talk and a document meant to be read alone do not need the same level of detail. Prepare a short narrative that fits the meeting, a readable document, and appendices for detailed questions. If you depend on a live demo, keep a fallback recording for connection or service failures.

Preparing for questions is part of the pitch

Do not answer an unknown question with a guess presented as fact. Say which information is missing and how it will be verified. Agree the scope and owner of documents to be sent after the meeting.

Alongside the deck, prepare a document area with controlled access. Contracts, financial records, cap table, intellectual property and technical assessments can be shared to the extent required as diligence progresses. Do not carry sensitive customer information into a first introductory meeting.

17. Co-founders, team and the founder’s role

Trust matters in choosing a co-founder, but a partnership only works when contribution, responsibility and decision rights are explicit too. Expertise, time available and risk taken on can all differ between people. Starting with an equal split without discussing those differences creates mismatched expectations later.

Early on, name the owners of the core decision areas: product, sales, operations and finance. Set out, in a way consistent with the legal structure, what happens if a co-founder leaves, cannot commit time, new investment arrives or a dispute occurs. Who holds the rights to software and content developed for the company should also be settled.

AI can extend a small team’s capacity

A small team can do more research, drafting and operational follow-up with AI. Even so, the owner of the customer relationship, the product decision and the financial responsibility must be identifiable. Creating many agents does not mean responsibilities have been defined.

A founder can do most of the work themselves at the start. But when the same problem keeps recurring, the answer should not simply be working longer. Compare the options: simplify the process, document it, automate it, bring in outside expertise, or add a team member.

A weekly working rhythm

In a short weekly review, discuss what you learned from customers, how the product is used, the sales pipeline, the cash position and the most important risk. Assign an owner and a date at the end of each item. AI-prepared summaries can support the meeting; ownership of the decision stays with the team.

Planning the founder’s time and energy is part of operations too. A working rhythm that accounts for obligations outside the business, backups for person-dependent work, and getting help when needed all strengthen continuity.

18. The problems and risks founders face

Taking risk in entrepreneurship does not mean acting without examining the possible loss. Some risks can be reduced with small experiments; others require contracts, backup processes or a different business model. The priority is making visible, early, the risks that would threaten continuity if they materialised.

A problem is a situation that has already occurred and needs handling; a risk is an event or condition that may or may not occur and could affect your goals. A customer missing a payment date is a current problem; delays becoming widespread across that customer group is a potential cash risk. The first calls for a collections process; the second calls for reviewing terms and customer concentration as well.

Early warning signs across six areas

The classification below is a working framework for day-to-day management; a risk can affect more than one area.

Separating internal from external factors clarifies the action too. Priority confusion or unclear task definitions can be changed directly. Currency movements, platform policy or contracting demand may be outside your control; your exposure to them is not. Rather than changing the whole business model for every external development, decide which threshold triggers which decision.

Separate the problem from the symptom

The causes in that table are research hypotheses, not diagnoses. The same symptom arises from different causes in different ventures. Low conversion is sometimes a pricing problem and sometimes the product being offered to the wrong customer group.

Additional risks in the AI and agentic era

Ventures using AI also need to weigh wrong outputs, data leakage, provider outages, price changes and unauthorised transactions. NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework and its generative AI profile offer a reference for handling risk across the lifecycle; neither is a certificate of legal compliance on its own. 22

A risk register should record, alongside likelihood and impact, when the risk would be noticed and which action stops it. Monthly review is useful; when a critical event occurs, do not wait for the calendar.

A simple record can carry: the risk, the goal affected, the early sign, the owner, the preventive action, the route to follow if it occurs and the review date. Some risks are acceptable, some can be reduced, and some can be partly shared through contracts or insurance; some activities can be dropped. Adding a control does not mean the risk has disappeared. Track the residual risk and whether the control is actually working.

Changing direction and stopping are entrepreneurial decisions too

One experiment failing does not mean the venture has failed. Segment, price, distribution or product scope can all change. But answering every negative result with more product development defers the underlying demand question.

If customers do not care about the problem, are not willing to pay, or an economic solution cannot be delivered under the necessary conditions, consider stopping. Make that call against the loss limit you set at the start, the evidence you hold and the alternatives available. Effort already spent is not on its own a reason to commit more.

19. Product-market fit and sustainable growth

Product-market fit is about a defined customer group getting sufficient and continuing value from what you offer. No single number, conversation or funding announcement demonstrates it conclusively across all business models. First sales give a starting signal; repeat usage, renewal, referral and economic delivery support a stronger judgement.

Measure against your business model

Examine customer groups by the period, segment and channel in which they were won. Total user numbers can rise while older customers leave. New sales can keep a retention problem invisible for a while.

When should you scale?

Before a growth decision, answer four questions. Is the customer getting value repeatedly? Can you reach that customer again? Does delivery quality hold as volume rises? Does an additional sale produce economic contribution within a reasonable period?

Scaling is not simply raising the ad budget. Support, supply, infrastructure, cash and team capacity have to be prepared together. When moving to a new segment or country, do not assume earlier customer behaviour carries over.

Five strategic questions about the future

These questions, which Webtures recommends, are not predictions; they are tools for testing the resilience of the business model:

1. If our core AI capability becomes commonplace, why will the customer stay with us?
2. If another agent runs the customer’s work, how will our product be discovered and used?
3. If time spent in front of a screen falls, will our pricing still reflect the value delivered?
4. As we serve more customers, which knowledge and processes genuinely get stronger?
5. If the model or distribution platform we use changes its terms, what options do we have?

The answers can set the priority for investment in brand, expertise, data, integrations or distribution. The aim is not to keep pace with every new technology but to build the advantages that matter to the customer.

20. The founder’s 90-day roadmap

The plan below is an adaptable working example for early-stage digital or service ventures. It does not promise success or product-market fit in 90 days. In physical manufacturing, scientific development and regulated activities, technical, legal and procurement timelines run longer.

Working through an example

A team building a quoting service for small manufacturers might spend the first two weeks observing the process. Then, without building an automated product, they can prepare quotes by hand from approved data and test whether the customer pays for the service. If demand appears, AI can be added at the data classification and drafting stage.

During the pilot they should track not only preparation speed but wrong prices, missing line items, human corrections and customer acceptance. The next decision might be to reduce the most frequent error, or to try a different segment, rather than to add features. This scenario is illustrative; it is not a real Webtures client case.

The weekly decision note

Each week, complete these five sentences: “This week we learned…”, “Our strongest evidence is…”, “What we still don’t know is…”, “Next week we will test…”, “The resource we will commit to that test is…”. A short, regular record is more useful than a long plan nobody updates.

21. The venture checklist

Do not use this list as a success score. For each item record one of “done”, “to verify”, “not applicable” or “blocked”, along with an owner and a date. Not every item has to be complete on day one; the point is to make the critical gaps at your stage visible.

Founder and purpose

1. I have written why I am starting this and the outcome I want.
2. I have set the limit of time and resources I can commit.
3. I have defined the loss I can absorb.
4. I have separated my strengths from the areas needing outside help.
5. I have written the conditions for changing or stopping the idea.

Problem and customer

6. I have defined the problem through a specific customer and situation.
7. I have narrowed the first customer segment.
8. I have separated the user, the decision-maker and the payer.
9. I have learned how the problem is solved today.
10. I have begun validating the problem’s impact through customer behaviour.

Market and competition

11. I have recorded the direct and indirect alternatives.
12. I have identified the channel that reaches the first customers.
13. I have recorded competitor prices with dates and sources.
14. I have written the assumptions behind my market sizing explicitly.
15. I have researched switching and purchasing barriers.

Validation

16. I have reduced leading questions in interviews.
17. I have interviewed people who match the real customer profile.
18. I have separated evidence of interest, intent and payment.
19. I set the experiment’s success threshold before starting.
20. I have recorded negative results and lost deals.

Business model and product

21. I have stated the value proposition in one sentence.
22. I have planned revenue and delivery cost together.
23. I have chosen the MVP’s single core use.
24. I have written what the first version leaves out of scope.
25. I have defined the first customer benefit and its acceptance condition.

AI and data

26. I have clarified AI’s role in the process.
27. I have assessed the data required, its source and my right to use it.
28. I have reviewed personal data and cross-border transfer conditions.
29. I have set up an evaluation that runs on new examples.
30. I have included failed attempts and human review in the cost.

Agents and transactions

31. I have limited the agent’s tool and data access.
32. I have defined write, send and spending permissions.
33. I have identified the cases requiring approval.
34. I have assessed duplicate transactions on interruption and retry.
35. I have prepared transaction logging, a stop switch and rollback paths.

Brand and distribution

36. I have stated clearly what outcome I deliver and to whom.
37. I have made price, scope and terms accessible.
38. I have started recording the stages of the first sales process.
39. I have kept product and business information consistent across channels.
40. I track AI visibility and real commercial outcomes separately.

Finance

41. I have separated one-off from ongoing costs.
42. I have calculated contribution per customer or transaction.
43. I have included the relevant team effort in acquisition cost.
44. I have planned cash flow and collection dates.
45. I have prepared a slow-sales, high-cost scenario.

Incorporation and ownership

46. I have assessed the legal and financial structure suited to the activity.
47. I have checked the permits and sector conditions required.
48. I have written the co-founders’ duties and decision areas.
49. I have clarified customer contracts and intellectual property.
50. I have set a method for departures and disputes.

Operations and risk

51. I have defined delivery, support and dispute processes.
52. I have assigned owners and trigger conditions to critical risks.
53. I have identified an alternative path for provider outages.
54. I have assessed data backup and portability.
55. I have made founder-dependent critical work visible.

Growth and investment

56. I track repeat usage or renewal behaviour.
57. I examine the results of customer cohorts separately.
58. I assess quality and capacity before scaling.
59. I tie the funding request to a milestone to be reached.
60. I have chosen the most important experiment for the next 30 days.

22. Books on entrepreneurship and a learning plan

Books on entrepreneurship offer different ways of thinking and working. The value of reading rises when an idea from the book is applied to a real decision. The selection below is not a sales or quality ranking; it is a reading suggestion mapped to different needs.

The focus of each book follows its author’s or publisher’s own description; the applications in the last column are this guide’s suggestions. Information on Kaan Gülten’s books is on the Webtures books page. 1 2 5 23 24

A four-week learning rhythm

In week one, focus on customer interview technique and run real interviews. In week two, map the business model and mark the uncertain areas. In week three, design and run a small experiment. In week four, assess the results, the cost and the next decision.

For AI and agentic work, follow current technical sources alongside the books. Model, tool and protocol capabilities change. Learning durable decision principles from books and current implementation conditions from official documentation gives a more balanced approach.

23. Frequently asked questions about entrepreneurship

Where should I start if I want to become an entrepreneur?

Pick a concrete problem belonging to a customer group you know. Research how those customers solve it today. Make your first step an interview or experiment that tests an important assumption, not a company name or a long product list.

Do I need an original idea to start a business?

An entirely new idea is not required. Meeting an existing need better for a specific customer creates value too. What matters is whether there is enough reason for the customer to leave their current alternative.

How much capital do I need to start?

It depends on the business model, sector, sales cycle and how the service is delivered. Naming a single figure would be wrong. Calculate the cost of first validation, the incorporation requirement, ongoing expenses and the cash needed until first collection separately.

Is it possible to start with no capital?

Low-cost service and digital models exist, but time, tools, access and effort are still resources. Offering a service with the expertise you already have can show you customer demand before you build a product.

Should I incorporate first or test the idea first?

Some research, such as interviews and prototypes, can happen before commercial activity. But charging fees, making sales, processing personal data and delivering regulated services each bring obligations that need separate assessment. Settle the timing of incorporation and registration with a specialist, according to the nature of the transaction.

Are a business plan and an investor pitch the same thing?

A business plan explains how the business will run, its assumptions and its resources. A pitch conveys the part of that structure the other side needs, briefly and clearly. The numbers and claims in the two documents have to agree.

How long should an MVP take?

It depends on the assumption being tested. A service trial can be set up quickly, while a physical or regulated product needs longer preparation. Set the timeline from the evidence required and safe delivery, not from a calendar target.

If customers like my idea, should I start?

Liking is a useful first signal. It needs support from behaviour: giving time, using the pilot, paying and buying again. Do not treat positive reactions from friends as the demand of a market.

Should every venture use AI?

AI should be used when it makes a meaningful contribution to quality, speed, cost or a new capability. For work with clear, simple rules, standard automation may fit better. Make the decision with a comparative experiment on real work.

What is the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?

A chatbot mainly provides information and answers. An agent can use tools within its permissions to move multi-step work forward. Look at the systems it can reach, the actions it can take and its control limits rather than at the product’s name.

Should I integrate an agentic commerce protocol right away?

First assess whether your customer uses the relevant channel and what access conditions apply to your business there. Current product information, clear pricing, stock or calendar data and a reliable transaction flow are the basic preparation. Prioritise integration against a concrete customer need and the benefit you expect.

Is appearing in an AI answer enough to make a sale?

Visibility can help the customer discover you; a sale also requires a suitable offer, trust, price and a smooth transaction. Measure mentions, citations, visits, qualified enquiries and completed transactions separately.

Can I start a venture alone?

Starting with a single founder is possible. But you have to plan how product, sales, finance and legal responsibilities will be covered. AI tools and outside expertise can extend capacity; the owner of the decisions and the obligations is still the venture.

Is raising investment a sign of success?

Investment is a resource provided against particular expectations. It does not on its own prove customer value or sustainable economics. Define clearly which validation or growth stage the investment makes possible.

When should I change my venture idea?

If the experiments you defined in advance do not support demand or economic viability, change should be considered. Investigate whether the issue lies in segment, distribution, price or the solution. Give the change its own test and its own resource limit.

What are the most common mistakes founders make?

This guide makes no claim about frequency ranking. The mistakes especially worth avoiding are: growing the product without talking to customers, mistaking interest for revenue, underestimating costs, leaving co-founder roles undefined, and using AI output without verification.

Do books on entrepreneurship guarantee success?

No book or method guarantees success. Books can help you ask better questions and structure your decisions. Read alongside real customer observation and small experiments.

What should my first step be today?

Choose one customer group, one problem and one assumption. Put this week’s interview or experiment in the calendar. Write down in advance the resource you will spend and the decision you will make afterwards.

To assess your market position, customer acquisition and readiness for AI and agents together as you grow, get in touch with Webtures.

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Sources checked on 11 September 2026. Undated and continuously updated documents were assessed as they stood on that date. The example scenarios, calculations, checklist and 90-day plan are this guide’s implementation suggestions; they are not market statistics or a guarantee of success. Platform access conditions, support programmes and regulatory practice should be re-checked on the date of any decision.

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2. Rob Fitzpatrick. The Mom Test. Undated. Used for: customer interviews and the book’s focus.
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7. Anthropic. Demystifying evals for AI agents. 9 January 2026. Used for: task, outcome and evaluation methods.
8. Anthropic. Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands. 8 April 2026. Used for: architectural assumptions against changing models.
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19. Model Context Protocol. What is the Model Context Protocol?. 28 July 2026 version path. Used for: tool and data connectivity.
20. A2A Protocol. A2A official documentation. Current. Used for: agent-to-agent communication.
21. Agent Payments Protocol. AP2 official documentation. Current. Used for: verifiable representation of purchase and payment authority.
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27. Similarweb. Our Data. Current methodology page. Used for: the different sources and modelling behind traffic data.
28. Pranjal Aggarwal and others. GEO: Generative Engine Optimization. First submitted 16 November 2023; third version 28 June 2024; accepted at KDD 2024. Used for: the GEO concept and its experimental research context.
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