AWS Startups Blog

Call A Lawyer General Manager Francois Pekly talks about the legal tech startup’s changing customer base, sourcing lawyers, and expanding into international markets in 2019.

David Le Douardin, the co-founder of predictive marketing platform Advalo, talks about his background in CRM data processing and how the French startup is building and scaling its business.

Mobile tech startup Aircall is simplifying call center software solutions. Head of Sales Chalom Malka talks about goals, data collection, Aircall’s customer base, and the future of cloud-based mobile technology.

At a recent VivaTech 2019 panel, “What Works: How the Best Entrepreneurs are Building Their Startups,” Julien Crochet, VP of sales strategy and enablement at AB Tasty, and Carles Sistare, head of engineering at Ogury, laid out their best tips for how to get things done when you’re a new, growing business with employees all over the world.

Professor Susan Crawford of Harvard Law School professor sits down with Kristen Titus, former Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of New York, for a wide-ranging conversation on the biggest issues concerning technology’s role in government and public policy.

Wakatoon Founder & CEO Pierrick Chabi talks about the animation startup’s origins and how his team is creating a new kind of storytelling.

For entrepreneurs, the importance of product-market fit has become conventional wisdom. Selling the right product to a strong market that really wants it is a cornerstone for growth. But startups and investors are increasingly focusing on a different kind of compatibility: founder-market fit. You may have a great product for a strong market — but are you the right person to build the company? Maybe the most obvious element of founder-market fit is based on experience. It’s essential to have founders with the right kind of skills and background to match the market.

SaaStr Founder & CEO, Jason Lemkin, Head of Sales Enablement at Revinate, Jen Burns, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nakul Mandan, and Atrium’s Head of Growth, Steven Boone, will share insights on the sales process and best practices on scaling sales teams.

Florence Moreau, Co-Founder & CTO of Incepto Medical, pitched the imaging AI startup at the AWS Startup Stage at Vivatech 2019 in Paris.

Founded in 2017, proteanTecs’ team reflects a variety of fields: the staff includes software developers, machine learning experts, circuit designers, electronic design automation developers, and more. Noam Brousard, VP of Product, sees the company’s varied background as representative of its “best of both worlds” approach to chip design and maintenance. For Brousard and proteanTecs, crafting reliable, high performance chip technology means unifying the hardware production and software development processes.