A DifferentStartup Story

Raimonds Simanovskis@rsim

Early 2011

• 15 years in IT services businessCTO of IT Alise => Tieto Latvia

• 38 years old

• Family with 3 kids

• House (no mortgage) What to do next?

Mid 2016

• More than thousand business customers

• eazyBI in top 10 Atlassian JIRA add-ons

• Small team of 10 people

• No venture capital

• No office

• Good profitability

Inspiration

What Idea to Pick?

• What you know and do best?

• What you will love to do for a long time?

• Is there a real need for this?

• Is it a not-too-small and not-too-big niche business?

Easy to useweb based

business intelligence application

Many data sources

Create reports with drag-and-drop

Many chart types

Powerful calculations

Main technical components

MySQLPostgre

SQLOracle MS

SQL

JRuby on Rails

Mondrian OLAP

Start smallStay small

No Venture Capital

High growthAll or nothing

Controlled growthSustainable business

Acquisition Profit

“Venture Capital Is a Time Bomb” — DHH

Focus on paying(business) customers

Be a goodOpen Source citizen

Mondrian OLAP

Provide the best

quality support

Customers around the globe

Remote office

Find beneficial partnerships

Visit business conferences

and meet customers

raimonds.simanovskis@eazybi.com@rsim