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Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)

Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)

FromBuild Your SaaS


Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)

FromBuild Your SaaS

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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
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Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @jsonpearl, and @helenryles

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Released:
Jul 12, 2022
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