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  1. Roman Stanek Founder/CEO, Good Data Corporation
  2. Who am I • Roman - \"Stan\" at Starbuck's • Technologist • Entrepreneur • Blogger (roman.stanek.org) • Czech
  3. NetBeans
  4. Java Development Tool Company • Founded in summer 1997 • From developers to developers
  5. Development team in Prague • Outside of Silicon Valley • Highly stable workforce • Price is not a big advantage
  6. Highly risky • Web 0.5 • No support for entrepreneurs • “Freemium model” unproven
  7. Limited funding available I would never fund a company east of Palo Alto Regis McKenna
  8. Innovator’s dilemma • Sometimes do the wrong things • IBM, Symantec, Borland: speed • NetBeans: extensibility
  9. Many firsts/Highly innovative • First Java based tool • First extensible environment • First downloadable tool
  10. Acquired by Sun in 1999 NetBeans is today one of two leading Java development tools
  11. Sun Development Center in Prague 400 developers working on various projects
  12. Systinet
  13. SOA platform company • Founded in March 2000 • Pioneer of SOA • Service portfolio management
  14. SOA hype $21M raised from Warburg Pincus in 2002
  15. Global presence • Sales & Marketing in US • Development in Prague • Support & testing in Vietnam
  16. WS-Addressing, WS-AtomicTransaction, SOA confusion WS-Attachments, WS-Context, WS- C o o r d i n a t i o n , W S - E ve n t i n g , W S - F e d e r a t i o n , W S - R e l i a b i l i t y, W S - ReliableMessaging, WS-Routing, WS- • Too many standards SecureConversation, WS-Security, WS- SecurityPolicy, WS-Transaction, WS-Trust, • Most co-developed by Systinet XML 1.0, XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL, • Complex, costly, disconnected UDDI, XML-DSig, XML-Encr yption, • SOA Governance was key to success X K M S , S A M L , X AC M L , e b X M L , BPEL4WS, WSRP,
  17. Major Systinet customers
  18. Mercury/HP acquisition $105M in cash January 2006
  19. Systinet put HP on SOA map HP Systinet leads the SOA Governance space
  20. Good Data
  21. On Demand Business Intelligence • Cloud + Web 2.0 metaphors • Flickr for Data • Simplicity & Collaboration
  22. Turning good data into information • Social, not technical problem • Stop working in isolation • Discovery happens elsewhere
  23. Company status • 30 employees • Development in Prague • Sales & marketing in Bay Area • Funded by industry luminaries • SaaShosted by Amazon Web Services
  24. Future plans • Customer Development Process • Commercial launch Q2 2009 • VC funding in 2009
  25. Lessons learned
  26. Lessons learned I. It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more. Seth Godin
  27. Lessons learned II. • Location. Location. Location. • Building companies in Europe is possible • We live in “A Flat World”
  28. Lessons learned III. Failure Success Speed, size Community Protocols, Governance transactions Size, complexity Collaboration
  29. Personal notes •Aplan is useless. Get a meta-plan. • Getready for “mood swings” • Tough times create tough companies
  30. Questions

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