AWS Startups Blog

Jonno Southam leads Venture Capital (VC) business development for AWS in Europe. He is also an Amazon ‘Bar Raiser,’ a role dedicated to maintaining the high hiring bar. Here, Jonno shares his thoughts on the hiring process and his experience at AWS.

Alcohol, in addition to being one of the largest revenue drivers in retail, is also one of the most highly regulated industries in the country, with restrictions that vary from state to state. These varying restrictions make alcohol difficult to sell via apps, resulting in missed sales opportunities for retailers. That’s where BYBE comes in.

For hawk:AI, many of the fraud challenges the financial industry faces can be overcome with the power of AWS machine learning.

Hiring the right people for your startup is one of the most important things that you will do as a founder. Beyond finding product/market fit, it’s probably the most important thing that you’ll do. Before joining AWS, I’d interviewed and hired a bunch of people as the CEO and Co-Founder of the live event startup Shortcut. Amazon, however, is the only employer that has actually taught and trained me how to properly interview and hire. I’d now like to share some of those lessons here because I think they are critical and particularly applicable to startups.

Nowadays, hardly a week goes by without fresh news of the struggles of media companies to adapt to the daunting economic landscape of the digital age. To face this challenge, iVideoSmart (IVS), a 3 year old startup based in Singapore, proposes an advertising business model based on the selling power of video.

Emilie Korchia, co-founder of My Job Glasses, explains how the platform lets students and professionals connect throughout the school year so they can find the best job fit for their career goals, an aspect of job searching that is often overlooked by students but is critical to employee retention.

Wealth management chatbot Cleo’s users use a colloquial style to communicate with her, much as if they were talking to a friend, and it’s important that Cleo understands and responds helpfully. Their team explains how SageMaker helps.

Ben Hall, founder of developer edtech startup Katacoda, shares how the interactive learning platform offers software developers access to educational content that will further their understanding of cloud-related technology.

The future is bright with innovative ideas ready to take flight, so Startup Series: Notes from Founders Vol.02 is dedicated to you. Enjoy the series. Build on.

French startup Jooxter uses intelligent sensors to collect occupancy data in workplaces, making office occupancy logistics more efficient. Co-founder and CEO, Fabien Girerd, sat down to tell us more.