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Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)
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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Jul 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Baptiste Jamin co-founded Crisp with a friend he met in high school. Highlights (go straight to ? for the best stuff):
1:42 – Crisp competes with massive companies: Zendesk, HelpScout, Intercom
2:52 – How did Crisp get started? (they started young!)
4:40 – The key insight that lead them to start Crisp ?
7:03 – "Being young and in France, how much did you know about the startup ecosystem?"
9:39 – How they bootstrapped Crisp in their twenties ?
12:52 – Market insights and how they found their first customers ?
16:02 – How they got a surge of new customers ?
22:39 – Why Crisp charges LESS than their competitors ?
30:14 – What it's like to have a customer base that is comprised of many niches ?
32:30 – How does a small team ship such high-quality software? ?
35:06 – Marketing strategy and tactics for small SaaS companies ?
40:36 – Key insight on Crisp's "job to be done." ?
45:52 – Crisp's simple sales trick for closing more deals ?
50:58 – Why some EU countries have an advantage in product differentiation ?
1:01:54 – Emerging global SaaS markets you might not have heard about
What should we talk about next?
Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @jsonpearl, and @helenryles
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1:42 – Crisp competes with massive companies: Zendesk, HelpScout, Intercom
2:52 – How did Crisp get started? (they started young!)
4:40 – The key insight that lead them to start Crisp ?
7:03 – "Being young and in France, how much did you know about the startup ecosystem?"
9:39 – How they bootstrapped Crisp in their twenties ?
12:52 – Market insights and how they found their first customers ?
16:02 – How they got a surge of new customers ?
22:39 – Why Crisp charges LESS than their competitors ?
30:14 – What it's like to have a customer base that is comprised of many niches ?
32:30 – How does a small team ship such high-quality software? ?
35:06 – Marketing strategy and tactics for small SaaS companies ?
40:36 – Key insight on Crisp's "job to be done." ?
45:52 – Crisp's simple sales trick for closing more deals ?
50:58 – Why some EU countries have an advantage in product differentiation ?
1:01:54 – Emerging global SaaS markets you might not have heard about
What should we talk about next?
Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @jsonpearl, and @helenryles
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Email us: support@transistor.fm
Thanks to our monthly supporters:
Jason Charnes
Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
Alex Payne
Bill Condo
Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com
Harris Kenny, Intro CRM podcast
Oleg Kulyk
Ethan Gunderson
Ward Sandler, Memberspace
Russell Brown, Photivo.com
Noah Prail
Colin Gray
Austin Loveless
Michael Sitver
Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
Dan Buda
Darby Frey
Adam DuVander
Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
Thanks to our monthly supporters
Pascal from sharpen.page
Rewardful.com
Greg Park
Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
Ethan Gunderson
Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com
Bill Condo (@mavrck)
Ward from MemberSpace.com
Russell Brown from Photivo.com
Evandro Sasse
Austin Loveless
Michael Sitver
Fathom Analytics
Dan Buda
Colin Gray
Dave Giunta
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Released:
Jul 12, 2022
Format:
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