AWS Startups Blog

Finding the right data, both internally and externally, for your ML can be a huge pain, though. It’s often dirty, hidden behind paywalls, or just not enough to give a full view of a situation. This is where Explorium comes in.

In part four of the Startup Founder Sales Series, we explore the topic of sales messaging and what it takes to create copy that starts sales conversations with the buyers in your ICP.

In part three of the Startup Founder Sales Series, we dive into the topic of target markets and how to determine the industries and segments on which to focus your sales efforts.

Headquartered in New York, Rally has built a platform that turns collectible items into investable securities, enabling anyone to take part in the potential financial upside of owning high-value assets. From Aston Martins to rare Hermès Birkin bags, Rally users can browse the various categories, select which items to learn more about, and purchase shares in whatever catches their eye, all from the company’s mobile app.

The mass digitization of information has made finding the right thing online difficult to say the least. This is precisely the problem Yewno was founded to solve. Leveraging sophisticated AI, built with AWS, the startup analyzes millions of information sources in real-time. Rather than simply hunting for keywords, the startup’s algorithms read text, understand context and meaning, and explain why things are connected.

In this post, we want to narrow the knowledge gap and help startup founders prospect with a better understanding of their potential customers. When done effectively, prospecting results in higher success rates, which in turn leads to more opportunities and revenue.

At some point in every startup’s history, founders will need to acquire real customers—the type that want to invest money and time into the product. This means giving their product a price and reaching out to unknown people to sell them on buying your product. While building the product is exciting and fun, selling induces all sorts of anxiety and stress. Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate with AWS, explains how to calm your nerves and build up the confidence necessary to master sales.

Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate with AWS, introduces his Founder Sales series, which will provide a language and an understanding of how sales works so that you can be more knowledgeable when working with the sales team.

At Bugout.dev, the Palo Alto-based startup I founded last year, we build a search engine for programmers. As such, we run many experiments involving features that enrich results from our search indices before we display those results to our users. Most of these features require us to deploy backing web services.

At first, the Omnilytics team decided to split their workloads between AWS and GCP, but quickly started racking up large bills as they shuttled data back-and-forth between the providers. Learn why the company moved to standardize their cloud infrastructure on AWS and the benefits seen since migrating.