The AWS Startup Podcast

Simon Thorpe has a knack for spotting what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Thorpe from Delta2020 explains to Richard Howard how he goes from seeing something “special” in people to taking out his checkbook and making an investment. For Thorpe it hinges on a basic model that includes four things: the right team, the right technology, intellectual property that is defen

Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He's a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. At Alluxio, Mih was brought in as CEO to take an opensource project that came out of U.C. Berkeley’s AMP lab, and help scale the software and the startup around the world. The best way Mih

Anne Kjaer Riechert, co-founder of ReDI School is tackling one of the globe's most difficult and pressing problems, finding a safe haven for people fleeing some of the most chaotic and dangerous parts of the world. And while ReDI school is unlike any other startup, it faces some of the same issues of scale, speed, and purpose as any other startup. In tackling all of that, Kjaer Rie

Accelerators are a great way to jumpstart a startup, offering technical and business help, a built-in network, and the unrelenting pressure of time to get your MVP ready for demo day. Eamonn Carey from TechStars London walks us through the reasons you might want to apply to an accelerator, and why for some, raising an angel round is the better course.

The rise of e-commerce companies in recent years has made it easy to forget about in-store retail. But, in many parts of the world, physical stores still make up for the lion’s share of money spent. Fave, a startup based in Kuala Lumpur, is looking to connect the two industries by offering offline retailers new-age tools that historically have been only available to online busine

Telecom software maker Metaswitch Networks was bootstrapped for the first 25 years of its profitable existence before the team decided to take outside investors including Sandhill Road standout Sequoia Capital. A few years after Sequoia invested in the London-based company, Chris Mairs, who was Metaswitch’s chief scientist, asked a Sequoia partner what the key requirements were f

Looking back on the past decade, one of the most notable shifts has been the rapid spread of mobile technology, especially in Southeast Asia. But while consumers and startups were quick to make that shift, older companies found it difficult to quickly pivot to the new standard. Jirnexu was founded to bring those two parties together, specifically in the financial services sector.

Hiring is all about making yourself irrelevant, says Matt Bland, co-founder of London-based Eat Safe. You have to hire people that know more than you, so you can move on to other important stuff that will inevitably come your way as your startup grows. And as all of that comes at you, it becomes harder and harder to step back and take a more strategic view of your company and where

"They join because they don't have to wear a suit." Well, that is certainly part of why 8 Securities CEO and Co-founder Mikaal Abdullah is able to recruit people to the Hong Kong and Japan-based mobile-banking startup. It certainly doesn't hurt that 8 Securities is well-funded and growing like a weed. Abdullah joins Startup Stories from Hong Kong. In this segment Abdullah let's us

As an angel investor Richard Fearn has met thousands of entrepreneurs, and there is a streak that runs through the best, he says. “They do have a restlessness and a resourcefulness to continue, even when it gets terribly hard.” And it doesn’t matter if you go through an incubator and accelerator. Every startup founder has one job. “Focus on building a company that is amazin