Scaling up: exploring the frontiers & going global

1. It’s hard
not to be
global
Katya Vladislavleva
datastories.com | datascience.guru

2. MSc
PDEng PhD

3. PhD
Competing
requirements
Incredible
exposure
Real-world
problems

5. It’s all about building a
network and trust

6. • Energy
• Advanced manufacturing
• Materials
• Finance
• (Digital) Health
• Consumer products
• Business operations
OUR TECHNOLOGY IS SHAPING THE WORLD
Different industries are solving the same analytics problems

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10. For anyone who collected data and needs to make
decisions, DataStories is a super-fast online service that
identifies the factors that affect your KPIs – and
eliminates everything else.
The result is a detailed mathematical relationship that
allows you to predict and optimize the KPIs and
interactively explore what-if scenarios, that anyone can
trust and use.
Unlike the dashboards and visualizations of traditional
business intelligence, we create predictions and
plausible explanations of the relationships hidden in
your data.

13. Katya
Vladislavleva
Artem
Markin
Data Science Data Science
Belinda
Febrianie
Optimization
Visualization
Meet the Team
Nick
Slembrouck
Uruku
Matt
Price
Web-Design
Data
Journalism
Vladimir
Blagojevic
Growth

14. TotalTurnover,
Eur
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
We are growing and ready
for the transition & scale up

16. Working with anyone from
anywhere is easy
Embracing current
communication technology
is the key to scale-up

17. Trust and Passion for what
you do makes this work

18. Tools we use every day

19. Read and
try
• Lose the control
obsession
• Prepare to let “the baby”
grow up
• Allocate the effort
smartly
• Nurture the people

20. • Stop MSU behavior
• Content & Relevance is the
dominant driver of success
• Inform and Educate
• “When a company delivers
a fantastic experience to
the market, it serves the
best sales strategy there is.”

21. • Manage complexity
• Assemble the team such
that you’re the dumbest in
the room
• Reduce operational
activities by 80%
• Refocus senior level to
face the market
• Realign everyone else

22. Last piece of advice:
Seek advice and
mentorship

23. • Meetups
• Growth hacking Meetup
• Hockey Stick Wkly
• Startathlon
• Tech Startup Day
• Pitch competitions

24. Omar
Mohout
Nick
Boucart
Ingrid
Willems
Peter
Verhasselt
Thank you
Thomas
Cleenewerck
Sanjoy
Bhose
Vladimir
Blagojevic
Simone
Brummelhuis
Veerle
Desmet
Bert
Reekmans

25. Ideal
startup
ecosystem
Katya Vladislavleva
datastories.com | datascience.guru