The AWS Startup Podcast

Simon Thorpe from U.K.-based Delta2020 uses a basic model when vetting potential investments and it boils down to four things: the right team, the right technology, intellectual property that is defensible, and a very big market. 

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. ...  Show more

Finding a safe haven for people fleeing some of the most chaotic and dangerous parts of the glove is a unique problem for a startup to tackle, and yet ReDI School faces some of the same issues of scale, speed, and purpose as any other startup. 

Eamonn Carey from TechStars London walks us through the reasons you might want to apply to an accelerator. Beyond the network, beyond the technical and business help, Carey says, there is the forcing function of just getting an MVP ready for demo day. 

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 b ...  Show more