AWS Startups Blog
Category: Startup
Peanut Co-founder and CEO Michelle Kennedy on Fast Growth, Working with Male VCs, and Appealing to Moms
As the CEO and co-founder of Peanut, a social networking app for new mothers, Michelle Kennedy knows a thing or two about growing a company from scratch.
Arth Labs CEO Gautam Ivatury on What He’s Learned from Founding Seven Startups
“It’s got to be a sickness or in my DNA.” That’s how Arth Labs Co-founder and CEO Gautam Ivatury describes his penchant for launching startups.
Web Summit 2017: AWS evangelists on natural language conversations and the IoT boom
In their 2016 Forecast: Internet of Things (IoT) report, Gartner projected that 8.4 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by the end of 2017. That’s up 31% from 2016 with the greatest concentration of use in China, North America, and Western Europe. AWS Developer Workshop at Web Summit 2017. That’s why it’s no […]
Tim Draper on why he thinks entrepreneurs should travel the world
Tim Draper is perhaps one of the world’s foremost proponents of Bitcoin. “It’s an exciting time for us bitcoin-ers,” the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Associates founding partner recently told AWS Startups. “In five years, you’re going to try to pay in fiat currency at Starbucks and they’re going to laugh at you.” In addition […]
Web Summit 2017: Get Social CEO Jeroen Bouwman on App Discovery, Making Hard Decisions, and Saying No to Machine Learning
Listen as Jereowen Bouwman tells AWS about the original idea for Get Social, how he successfully pivoted from being a consumer-facing company to a B2B product, and why machine learning is not for every startup.
How to Accelerate Your WordPress Site with Amazon CloudFront
Blogging and content production have become the marketing tool of choice for many startups and a fair number of founders find themselves choosing WordPress to power their messaging. Already the content management system (CMS) of choice for 28% of the web, WordPress is the biggest self-hosted blogging tool in the world and perhaps the only […]
The Cloud from A to Z: The AWS Developer Workshop at Web Summit 2017
To get a preview of what our evangelists will be sharing a Web Summit, we’ll be presenting a series of interviews with our evangelist team. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ll be talking about.
Coffee Shop or Incubator? Build Your Next Startup in the Right Place
Not every startup program is a fit for every startup (or every funding round). Instead, think about what you really need—maybe it’s customers, mentors, or funding—and what you don’t.
Before Pitching Yourself as a Machine Learning Startup, You Better Be One
Before pitching yourself as a machine learning startup, you better be one, says Matt Hartman of Betaworks.
Large Scale Disaster Recovery Using AWS regions
Given the tremendous amount of data that we process daily, disaster recovery (DR) is of utmost importance to us. We aspire to ensure business continuity in the face of natural or man-made disaster. Here’s how they do it.