The document summarizes the history and development of Data.be, a company that started from a prototype created at Startup Weekend Brussels in 2011. It discusses key milestones such as launching the data.be website in 2012, the api.data.be API in the same year, and expanding their data search capabilities in 2013. The document concludes by reflecting on lessons learned from 7 Startup Weekends and the company's growth from its origins as a prototype to the services it provides today.

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