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Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024

SaaStr

Ultimately, you also have to grow again to raise more venture capital. Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. At a practical level though, the headlines in 2024 may actually look much worse than 2023 for startup failures. So many were able to cut the burn and stretch their cash through 2023.

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Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

SaaStr

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. The latter is the most important for raising venture capital. So we’ve talked about it often here at SaaStr, but things are just so … odd right now in SaaS.

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SaaS companies quickly replacing subscriptions with usage-based pricing

OPEXEngine

There is an appetite for usage-based pricing, and we expect this to continue to accelerate in the coming months,” says Kyle Poyar, operating partner at OpenView, a venture capital firm. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. But that has been changing.

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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

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?

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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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PODCAST 78: What this Google Exec Wants You to Know About Success w/ Alison Wagonfeld of Google Cloud

Sales Hacker

Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about. Alison Wagonfeld is the chief marketing officer for a little company called Google, specifically for Google Cloud, representing both the Google Cloud Platform and G-Suite.

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