startup weekend summit brussels data.be
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SW BRUSSELS 3 YEARS LATER…
SW Summit Brussels - 07/12/2014Eric Rodriguez @wavyxToon Vanagt @toon
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HOW TO FIND RELEVANT COMPANY INFORMATION ?
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BEFORE...
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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ?
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30/01/2011 - SW BRUSSELS
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Working prototype with full-text search
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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
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All relevant information on the company page
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• VAT Validity
• Company Information
• Geographic Search
• European VAT Check
API.DATA.BE
25/10/2012 - Launch api.data.be via Twitter ;)
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PUBLICATION SEARCH
23/10/2013 - Data Search on 2 millions publications (private beta)
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WHAT IF I TOLD YOU
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
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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
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Thank you!
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@toon
WorkshopLessons learned
from 7 Startup Weekends
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