Nice list.
I wrote a blog post about 'Startup Istanbul 2014'. I have a section with quick advises from Michael Siebel to overseas entrepreneurs. It's pretty small list but I think it's a good quick-list of some general guidelines. The post is here[1] in case you wanna take a look.
[1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2014/10/05/startup-istanbul-r...