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Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

SaaStr

My summary of Venture Markets in Nov 2022: Series B and later even worse than looks in data: 85%+ of investing here has simply ceased. And while AWS’s growth is down a bit, it’s still at epic levels, Azure isn’t even really down, and Google Cloud is growing faster than ever.

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Top Cloud Stories of The Week!!

SaaStr

2: LinkedIn is Migrating to Microsoft Azure. 3: Microsoft Invests $1 BIllion in OpenAI to Develop AI Technologies on Azure. 5. “Exclusive: How Sequoia Became India’s Biggest Venture Capital Firm” The big VC firms are just as competitive and aggressive in India, and in some cases, China and in the U.S.

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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?

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean them an Azure, like they’ve just had tremendous success, but 10 years ago that wasn’t a given. And I remember back in 2009, we were the only tech investment that Venrock did that year. At this point, I’ve raised a billion dollars between a venture capital and then now we’re a public company.