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Leadership Tips, Team Culture, Choosing First Investor, and more – Mattermark Daily

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Natasha Azur of Osage Partners takes a look at trends in venture capital activity ( which we’ve also been digging into lately on the Mattermark blog ) in “ What’s the Pulse on 2017 Midyear VC Investment? Believing in the product is most of the reason I like coming to work.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

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I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. The good news for speakers is we can pick; we just say, we said no manels in 2017. That’s not helping the lack of hiring, and everyone that’s big is hiring like there’s no tomorrow. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. Leadership can really turn around really any area of the company.” You just don’t have the right leadership or structure to get there often. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering.