AWS Startups Blog
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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Developers for Your Startup
We spoke to Will Bentinck about recruitment, and specifically about what it is that startups should avoid doing when hiring developers. Right off the bat, he gave us five big things.
Dating, Data, and Human Expertise: How Once Found Its Global Expansion Sweet Spot
AWS startup customer Once is a dating app with a unique approach – users get one handpicked match every day at noon. This week in AWS Startup Stories* we talked to Clémentine Lalande, COO, and CFO of Once–the ‘slow dating’ app. Clémentine is an entrepreneur who has helped to scale several social and commercial ventures […]
Using Machine Intelligence to Predict Your Career Success
Here at untapt, we’re using machine learning to reinvent the hiring process for software engineers. We’ve built a digital hiring platform that matches developers with hiring managers and puts them directly in touch with each other. Initially focused on FinTech, untapt will soon expand to cover technology hiring across broad industry verticals. I want to share a bit about our history, how we came to be, what we’re planning next, and how AWS helped make it happen.
Hiring a Cloud Engineer? Questions to Ask and What You Should Hear
In this blog post, I provide tips for hiring an experienced cloud engineer who can help you run your startup or small business efficiently…
The Dilemma of the Startup CTO Title
Gordon Daugherty has been a startup advisor for more than 15 years and now serves as Managing Director for the Capital Factory accelerator in Austin, Texas (Capital Factory is an AWS Activate partner). Through his Shockwave Innovations advisory practice, Gordon is an angel investor and active blogger seeking to help entrepreneurs achieve their wildest dreams. Here’s his take on the “CTO” title.