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How to Make, Grow and Sell a Semantic Web Start-up
Published on Jul 10, 2018758 Views
Semantic Web has broken the boundaries of academia years ago, and started being used to solve more and more industry challenges. However, inducing the change towards embracing Semantic Web technologie
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How to Make, Grow and Sell a Semantic Web Start-u00:00
Reality: In the next 5 years many of you will create start-ups01:30
All successful start-ups are the same. All start-ups that fail, fail in their own way.02:51
Success is getting what you want and failing at everything else03:14
There is no straight path 04:27
I’ve got my first investment in 2012 - 105:59
I’ve got my first investment in 2012 - 209:14
SEMANTIC WEB WAS THE KEY TO GETTING MY FIRST INVESTMENT 809:37
We started in early 2013 - 109:54
We started in early 2013 - 212:39
Photo - 113:27
IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG13:44
First clients appeared from day 114:40
Getting travel clients was difficult15:34
One meeting was in Vert Galant, where people have pigs in their gardens, 8am, on a freezing winter morning16:25
We learned a bitter lesson about big corporations and start-ups18:36
Photo - 220:14
Photo - 321:19
NOVICES UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF SEMANTIC WEB BETTER THEN THEY UNDERSTAND THE INTERNE22:39
Year 1: Conclusions23:25
We knew our product had to be24:10
In early 2014 we launched our product/service : GlobeAdvent - 124:45
In early 2014 we launched our product/service : GlobeAdvent - 226:18
We won awards before having clients27:33
Then the phone started to ring28:01
Photo - 429:50
Focus helped deal with the pressure30:21
SEMANTIC WEB HELPED ATTRACT DEVELOPERS WANTING TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW31:29
Few first months with the first client32:30
GlobeAdvent demo - 134:10
GlobeAdvent demo - 234:39
GlobeAdvent demo - 335:07
GlobeAdvent demo - 435:52
International awards came in36:33
Google Promotes Sépage to its 40 Biggest Clients36:45
Untitled37:52
Your product allows to do something that couldn’t be done before.38:32
Then came Havas Voyages39:27
Havas Voyages wanted an intelligent assistant40:58
We changed our commercial offer42:21
Make Travel Great Again43:09
It worked43:49
There is only one viable start-up ideology: common sense 44:24
Photo - 544:48
Year 3: Conclusions46:09
Acquisition was the goal from the start - 146:46
Acquisition was the goal from the start49:24
Different types of buyers51:13
The buyer that finally bought us52:16
Negotiating the deal took 7 months55:35
You should be able to walk out56:29