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Inside Angel Investing: How Long Have You Been Working on This?
And other questions you better answer (correctly) when they come from Seedcamp co-founder and Managing Partner Reshma Sohoni.
FinTech Startup Tide’s Analytics Platform Journey: Walking through the Past, Present, and Future
Plamen Ivanov, consultant for Tide is deeply involved in redesigning and implementing its Analytics Platform in AWS. In this article, he shares the journey that Tide has been on, architecting the Platform in a way to best serve Tide’s needs. He’ll share the platform’s past — what they faced when the team was formed back in November 2019; the platform’s present — what they achieved in 6 months (Nov 2019 — Apr 2020), and the platform’s future — what they are planning to achieve by the end of the year (2020).
What Startup Founders Need at This Moment: It Starts with a Very Cool Head on Your Shoulders
No question the startup world has entered new territory. The good news? Today’s startups are designed for just these conditions.
Stop Breathing Down Your Engineering Team’s Necks
Hire people who can take over your job. Sounds simple, but then you have to really let them do it, and that’s hard, especially a CTO used to getting her hands in every bit of code. Plus, how your marketing department can take a cue from agile development routines.
How to Build your Mobile App with AWS
Ever wondered how growing startups use AWS to build, scale, and change the ways their customers live and work? Read on to learn how three London-based mobile app startups got their starts and what AWS tools and services they used to launch their MVPs.
Bringing the Beauty Industry into the Digital Age with Slick Co-Founder Matt Millar
The ability to easily make reservations online for goods and services may seem ubiquitous, but many industries have not yet found the technology to match their needs. When Matt Millar and his colleagues found that 70% of the beauty industry was still running on pen and paper, he and his partners founded Slick, a salon management platform that helps hair and beauty professionals book appointments, manage calendars, and save money.
How WIREWAX Built And Scaled A Media Services Offering With Amazon Web Services
As an interactive video company, WIREWAX processes thousands of videos every single day. Each video uploaded to our platform goes through our computer vision algorithms to automatically detect faces and objects, languages, generate subtitles and much more.
On-Demand Fashion Startup Unmade on How They Will Take on the Fashion Industry
London-based Unmade is an on-demand clothing manufacturing platform that offers businesses the ability to offer customization to their customers.
Techstars London’s Marko Srsan Explains How to Get Involved with the Accelerator
Check out our video interview with Marko Srsan, Program Director of Techstars London, to learn more about the organization and how startups can get in with their U.K. outpost.
Deliveroo Leverages AWS to Quickly Ship New Products
From PR to production, the Deliveroo Application Platform needs to get developers’ code into running containers as quickly and safely as possible. Check out the above talk from re:Invent 2018 to hear from Ben Cordero, Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo, about his team’s process for safely shipping software with support for automatic rollbacks, service scaling and configuration management.