AWS Startups Blog
Author: Michelle Kung
Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
How Dots Uses AWS Data Pipeline to Punch Above Its Weight
Before data scientist Jae Young Lee joined Dots in 2017, the mobile game studio only employed one other data scientist who was responsible for manually running all of the company’s Python scripts and SQL queries. Lee took it upon himself to help his colleague and decided to automate everything with AWS Data Pipeline.
Engineering Financial Happiness: Tink’s Jens Rantil on Complexity-Free Money Management
Tink, a personal finance management app based in Sweden, has a unique end goal in mind for its users: financial happiness.
How Kyruus is Using Big Data to Solve Supply and Demand Mismatches in Healthcare
Kyruus is a solution company for solving supply-demand mismatches in healthcare. Co-Founder Julie Yoo talks about how they use big data to offer customers the best provider within their network.
HAAWK: Creating the TurboTax of Music
When developing a startup, it’s important to think about your company in the simplest terms possible. For Ryan Born, the CEO and co-founder of HAAWK, a company that helps to monetize and enforce copyrights on user-generated video and audio platforms (think YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify), his mission is simple: to create the TurboTax of music licensing.
Starting with Strong Security in the AWS Cloud
Security is often viewed as too difficult or that it requires too many special skills to do well. That’s ridiculous. It’s a core part of development and operations. After all, who wants to write bad code or constantly fix an unstable service?
When Disaster Strikes, CloudEndure Advises Putting Your Head in the Clouds
For most people, “if I could turn back time” is just a title of a Cher song. But for the team at CloudEndure, it’s a way of life.
Fleet Co-Founder Flavia Tata Nardini is Winning the New Space Race
Fleet CEO Flavia Tata Nardini wants to connect you to every part of the world, and her plan to make it happen is out of this world. That’s not hyperbole.
ofo’s Multimodal Wheelhouse: Dockless Bike-Sharing Platform Rolls into Cities Worldwide
It’s a dilemma almost as old as the internal combustion engine: you’re too far to walk somewhere yet too close to drive. In transit circles, it’s called the “first-mile/last-mile problem,” and the team at ofo is looking to solve it.
Hot Startups for May 2018: Schoology, MissionU, EdCast
As the internet becomes more accessible to a wider audience of users all around the world—especially school-age children and other learners—the field of education technology has boomed.
Sarah Moran on Going from Girls’ Night to Launching Girl Geek Academy
On International Women’s Day 2014, Sarah Moran sat down with the women who would become her fellow Girl Geek Academy co-founders to lament the state of hackathons—events, which can go on for days, focused on bringing tech minds together to build products, launch apps, and engage in collaborative computer programming.