AWS Startups Blog
Author: Iliyana Ilieva
AWS Presents Retail and Hospitality Week: Six Unmissable Webinars for Startups
From Tuesday September 18 through Thursday, September 20, AWS experts and customers will host online talks dedicated to the retail and hospitality industry.
Amazon Web Services and the UK FinTech Scene
Learn more details about how TransferWise, OakNorth, Funding Circle and Monzo all leverage the benefits of the AWS cloud.
That’s a wrap on the AWS Pop-up Loft London!
It’s been epic. More than 1,000 visitors, 12,000 Twitch views and counting, 36 breakout sessions, 19 live streams, 5 hands-on workshops, 3 networking evenings, 2 breakfast briefings, a Fintech innovation showcase, and an AWS Community Day later, we’ve now officially closed the London Pop-up Loft for yet another year. Thanks to an interesting mix of […]
Drumroll please: The AWS Pop-up Loft London is back!
We are extremely excited to welcome the AWS Pop-up Loft back to London. From Sept. 18 to 29, the Loft—newly located in the heart of Shoreditch—will offer startups and AWS enthusiasts an opportunity to talk to AWS technical experts, attend training workshops, participate in networking events, and enjoy our onsite co-working facilities.
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Developers for Your Startup
We spoke to Will Bentinck about recruitment, and specifically about what it is that startups should avoid doing when hiring developers. Right off the bat, he gave us five big things.
Dating, Data, and Human Expertise: How Once Found Its Global Expansion Sweet Spot
AWS startup customer Once is a dating app with a unique approach – users get one handpicked match every day at noon. This week in AWS Startup Stories* we talked to Clémentine Lalande, COO, and CFO of Once–the ‘slow dating’ app. Clémentine is an entrepreneur who has helped to scale several social and commercial ventures […]
Reinventing the Banking Model with Starling Bank
This week in AWS Startup Stories* we talked to Anne Boden, CEO and founder of Starling Bank – the new UK mobile-only current account built from scratch in the AWS Cloud. (If you are curious to learn more about their architecture, check out the latest video part of the series This is My Architecture, where […]
Raising Startup Venture Capital: Lessons from Local Globe and Unmade
Behind the scenes: Robin Kein (left) and Hal Watts (right). We wanted to get some advice on how to find investment from a venture capital organisation when you’re starting a new tech business. So in the third episode of AWS Startup Stories* we […]
Insider Insights: Crowdfunding for Startups
In the second episode of AWS Startups Stories* we heard how Monzo, a mobile only challenger bank made one million pounds in 96 seconds on Crowdcube, the world’s first equity crowdfunding platform.