Presenting Openbiz.be project

1. www.openbiz.be How to open business registers & public company data in 54 hours Presentation by ToonVanagt (@Toon) & Eric Rodriguez (@wavyx) on @openbizbe #Twunch2/3/2011 Rooftop terrace cabinet @VincentVQ

2. www.openbiz.be Start-up weekend Brussels 2011 Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which brings together people with different skillsets - from software developers and graphics designers to business-minded aspiring entrepreneurs - to pitch ideas, form teams, and attempt to transform a mere idea into the beginnings of a viable startup business over the course of a weekend…

3. Public Belgian company data are: Scattered over several websites: Balanscentrale NBB / Centrale des Bilans BNB (http://bcc.nbb.be/BCCIA0101/WEB/actions/startbcc?lang=N) Kruispuntbankondernemingen/ (http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/zoekwoordenform.html) BelgischStaatsblad / MoniteurBelge(http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_tsv/tsv.pl) … Unstructured Hard to explore (interface, cookies, pop-ups) Hard to share www.openbiz.be

5. Hard to use: change settings on browser… www.openbiz.be

6. Heavy legal disclaimers: prison penalties Upto5 year of prison for copying data from public registers for commercial use (http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO/Pubd/PuS/Beperking/index.jsp) “Op het misbruik van Public Search staan straffen van vrijheidsberoving vanaf drie maand tot vijf jaar engeldboetes van 25 tot 500 euro” Not allowed to redistribute data for free (http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO/ond/Comm/Beperkingen/index.jsp) “U mag de gegevens niet gratis ter beschikking stellen van derden, behalve als u daarvoor het akkoord heeft van de Beheersdienst van de KBO.” www.openbiz.be

7. Private data service providers sell structured public data and personal info

8. Why OpenBiz.be Difficult for non-experts to get quick overview about financial and personal information of company stakeholders Lack of transparency comparedto many other countries Information spread over several sites Existing paid models targeted at companies with big data acquisition budgets and information needs Diminish risk for SME’s of dealing with wrong suppliers or non paying customers Let others experiment with public government data (save tax money) www.openbiz.be

9. What Would Google Do? (@jeffjarvis) Crawl public web sources Extract useful data (OCR) Structure information Offer easy search & fast consolidated results Add value with alerts … www.openbiz.be

10. Quick demo: Jean-Claude LogéFormer Manager of the Year and founder of Systemat resigned without press release nor coverage www.openbiz.be

11. Search & share published records on Twitter & Facebook Find local companies (eg: ‘Kortrijk’) Find unmarried entrepreneurs (eg ‘mademoiselle ‘ for matchmakingor female entrepreneurial empowerment organisation) Find ‘starters’ www.openbiz.be

12. Quote Unlike Facebook, there are no privacy options you can set as a Belgian company stakeholder. Government regulation aimsto protect third parties and therefor those who own and manage companies are identifiable on personal level to beaccountable… www.openbiz.be

13. Useful links http://brussels.startupweekend.org/ http://OpenBiz.be/ http://twunch.be/twunches/dakterras-van-het-kabinet-van-minister-van-ict-20110302-1200 http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/KBO/ond/Comm/Beperkingen/index.jsp http://bcc.nbb.be/BCCIA0101/WEB/actions/startbcc?lang=N http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/zoekwoordenform.html http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_tsv/tsv.pl http://www.buzzmachine.com/what-would-google-do/ & http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis http://open.gov.uk/ http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm www.openbiz.be

14. Extra time Next slides are for reference and might be used during Q&A www.openbiz.be

16. SME in Belgium (240.000)

17. Extensible to non-profit organizations

18. Potential revenues

19. Freemium model withsubscription for alerts

20. Pay-per-click for subscriptionalerts « allergic »

21. Costs

22. Cloud infrastructure – minimal operating costs

23. Viral Marketing – no direct sales

24. Partners

25. Economicorganizations

27. www.openbiz.be FEATURE: ALERTS Subscribe for all future documents mentioning a company or stakeholder Add “Brice Le Blévennec” to your watchlist link to original document

28. Extra time: what about free searchresults but paidalerts?