Startup Weekend Summit Brussels - Data.be From startup weekend brussels to data.be

1. SW BRUSSELS
3 YEARS LATER…
SW Summit Brussels - 07/12/2014
Eric Rodriguez @wavyx
Toon Vanagt @toon

2. HOW TO FIND RELEVANT COMPANY INFORMATION ?

3. BEFORE...

4. WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND
COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ?

5. 30/01/2011 - SW BRUSSELS

6. Working prototype with full-text search

7. BUILDING DATA.BE
• Team of 11 people !
• Keep energy and momentum is very hard
• Traction
• 02/03/2011- Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne
• 23/03/2011 - eGov presentation
• 26/05/2011 - OpenData Hackathon
• 09/11/2011 - EU Hackathon (Hack4Transparency) - Google/European Parliament
• 29/02/2012 - data.be is born

8. 19/04/2012 - Launch data.be at startups.be/betagroup event

9. All relevant information on the company page

10. API.DATA.BE
• VAT Validity
• Company Information
• Geographic Search
• European VAT Check
25/10/2012 - Launch api.data.be via Twitter ;)

11. PUBLICATION SEARCH
23/10/2013 - Data Search on 2 millions publications (private beta)

12. 01/10/2013 - New data.be with more data & financial info

13. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

14. FROM SW TO DATA.BE
• Jan. 2011 - SW Brussels
• Feb. 2012 - Data.be SPRL
• April 2012 - Launch data.be
• Oct 2012 - api.data.be
• Oct 2013 - Data Search
• Oct 2014 - new data.be

15. Thank you!
toon@data.be
be.linkedin.com/in/toonvanagt
@toon
Workshop
Lessons learned
from 7 Startup Weekends
eric@data.be
be.linkedin.com/in/erodriguez
@wavyx