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Craig Klein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Yeah, that's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Well, first of all, we started 15 years ago when there wasn't so many competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

And at that time, our target market was people that had been using ACT.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

If you remember that, that was like the granddaddy of all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Oh, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Great program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

And everybody loved it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

But, you know, it wasn't in the cloud and Salesforce came around and put everything in the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

And that was our plan is we're going to help everybody using ACT get into the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Well, he raised a shitload more money than me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Are you bootstrapped?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Well, our average customer is about three or four users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

You know, so they're, they're paying $150, $200 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

The first year we were, we were, I was, I still had my day job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

We were moonlighting, uh, you know, all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1424 He Launched CRM in 2003, Bootstrapped, now $3.5m in ARR

Um, and we had a, uh, some development contractors that were helping us write the code.

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