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

Mattermark

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 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. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

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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 at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” And so this huge shift was going on. As a team together.