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Assertion Contradicted
High-Intent Enterprise Software Search Keywords Cost $120 to $150 Per Click
“I think if you look at the cost for these sorts of ads, you're talking at least a 120, a 150 dollars for some of these ads on those keywords.”
Sam Senior Nov 10, 2021 ▶ 8:10 Testbox Lets You Try Software Without Sales Calls, Landed 1st Customer, $2.7m Raised at $12m Post Money Cap
Disclosure
TestBox Relies on Software Comparison SEO Pages to Acquire Users
“Yeah, that's exactly what we're doing at the moment.”
Sam Senior Nov 10, 2021 ▶ 8:34 Testbox Lets You Try Software Without Sales Calls, Landed 1st Customer, $2.7m Raised at $12m Post Money Cap
Disclosure
TestBox Takes 20% of Customer Lifetime Contract Value on HubSpot Deals
“So with HubSpot it's about, it's 20% of total contract value. So not just first year, but actually the entire contract value that we get paid.”
Sam Senior Nov 10, 2021 ▶ 5:25 Testbox Lets You Try Software Without Sales Calls, Landed 1st Customer, $2.7m Raised at $12m Post Money Cap
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Salesforce, SAP, and HubSpot spend over seven figures annually with G2
“You know, we do have large vendors also like Salesforce, SAP HubSpot as customers, and some of them frankly can spend, you know, over seven figures with us.”
Godard Abel Oct 25, 2021 ▶ 8:06 G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
FunctionFox runs exclusively on internally built software and operational tools
“So today to run our business, we use nothing but our own internal tools. So not just FunctionFox, but we have our own SMS system, sales management system, CRM system. We do all of our own billing and tracking and anything that we need for our system we've buil…”
Karina Ludwig May 2, 2021 ▶ 5:06 She Doesn't Want Your VC Check, $10m+ In Dividends Paid Out for Time Tracking Tool
Assertion Supported
Harris: HubSpot Lacks Built-In Loyalty Programs and SMS Marketing Segmentation
“What we created is a unique SaaS platform that helps our retail clients and cannabis manage their loyalty program, which is something HubSpot doesn't offer. And then through that loyalty program, we create a lot of different segmentation for them that they can…”
Jeffrey Harris Feb 21, 2021 ▶ 2:05 SpringBig Raised $11.5m on $100m Valuation at $20m Revenue in Niche CRM Space
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
SupportBee Ranks Above Zendesk and HubSpot for 'Support Ticket Software'
“You're number one organic, and you're beating HubSpot and Zendesk and others.”
Nathan Latka Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 10:40 SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin receives around 1,000 inbound website leads daily
“I mean, I'm gonna have to take a look at this, but I think the number is close to the HubSpot form, sorry, the website form gets a lot you know, over a thousand, whereas the around a thousand a day, and the type form gets about 130 to 180 a day.”
Johnny Boufarhat May 17, 2020 ▶ 11:57 1758 Funnel Analysis: Online Events Platform $0 to $1.8m in Revenue In 2 Months
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helgeson claims GreenRope's platform was built by just six engineers
“Well, if you consider that our product has been built by six engineers, and all of the things it can do, and you compare it to companies like HubSpot or Salesforce that have a thousand times our size, I would argue that their software is fairly better.”
Lars Helgeson Oct 5, 2019 ▶ 9:21 1533 How Greenrope CRM Bootstrapped to $2.7M in ARR
Assertion Supported
Caputa built the HubSpot agency partner and channel programs
“I built the channel program, the agency partner program at HubSpot”
Peter Caputa Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 3:31 1497 He Grew Hubspot Partner Program, Now $91k in MRR at DataBox
Disclosure
Caputa: Databox raised $1.1M convertible note from HubSpot executives and funds
“I raised the one, I raised 1.1 million on a convertible note when I joined a bunch of the HubSpot executives put in amounts one of the existing investors put more in and then I got two other funds to put some money in.”
Peter Caputa Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 8:50 1497 He Grew Hubspot Partner Program, Now $91k in MRR at DataBox
Insight
Caputa: HubSpot scaled partner program by shifting agencies to recurring retainers
“Marketing agencies really struggle with cashflow because most of their business was projects web design projects, short-term SEO engagements, et cetera. And so what we did is we figured out that we could teach them to sell a set of services that they deliver o…”
Peter Caputa Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 6:15 1497 He Grew Hubspot Partner Program, Now $91k in MRR at DataBox
Opinion
HubSpot and Infusionsoft are too difficult for small businesses to implement
“When you look at the big packages, the all-in-one solutions your companies like HubSpot, Infusionsoft, et cetera. They make really great software but it tends to be, from a small business perspective, very difficult to implement.”
Eric Wolf Jul 4, 2019 ▶ 3:00 1440 He's Flat at $25k/mo So He's Making This 1 Big Change
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Postalytics Customers Are Acquired via HubSpot Partner Ecosystem
“The vast majority of them are HubSpot customers and they have found us through both of our content marketing, As well as our investment in the HubSpot Connect partner program.”
Dennis Kelly May 28, 2019 ▶ 4:40 1403 This Direct Mailing SaaS Company Went From $0 to $135k in MRR Using Hubspot Partner Ecosystem
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Reich: HubSpot routes all incoming global leads using Troops
“HubSpot is a good example. They're a customer of troops. They manage all of their leads using troops. The lead comes in, it gets it gets inspected and then routed intelligently to the right team member around the world.”
Dan Reich Apr 17, 2019 ▶ 17:32 1362 How Troops AI Became #1 Slack Integration, $1m+ in ARR, $17m Raised
Opinion
Carruthers: Prefers HubSpot over Salesforce despite reporting limitations
“HubSpot. Absolutely love it. I mean, it's an interesting battle because our CMO wants to move over to Salesforce and stuff. And there's this, you know, it's got this great integration of sales and marketing. The reporting is maybe not as good as it should be, …”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 19:04 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Assertion Partly supported
Skok: HubSpot originally launched with flat $500/month pricing and no expansion axis
“So in, in HubSpot's case, we started with us with an idea that simplicity was going to be great. And so we had one price point, which was 500 bucks a month, 6000 dollars a year for every single customer, regardless of what was going on. And there was no expans…”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 9:12 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
Assertion Partly supported
Halligan: HubSpot charged a flat $250 monthly for five years
“When we first started HubSpot, it was like the model T. I don't care what color you want it as long as it's black. We had a product called HubSpot, not basic pro enterprise. It was 250 dollars a month. And that was it for the first five years of HubSpot.”
Brian Halligan Mar 13, 2018 ▶ 17:11 962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing
Disclosure
Halligan: HubSpot uses Australia as an isolated sandbox for experiments
“Often we do this in Australia, actually, because they speak English, and it's sort of an isolated place to experiment, and we try to learn things from them, and if they work, then we apply them to the whole company, but really we want to experiment everywhere.”
Brian Halligan Mar 13, 2018 ▶ 3:38 962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Collin: HubSpot expanded from one to 15 teams using Front
“HubSpot started with one team on front, their customer success team, and now they have about, I don't know, 14, 15 teams on front.”
Mathilde Collin Aug 2, 2017 ▶ 7:11 739: How Has She Has 3x'd Revenue to $700k MRR in Just 11 Months?
Disclosure
Lorang: HubSpot integrates FullContact infrastructure into its applications
“So yeah, I mean, we've got like for example, HubSpot uses us and plugs in HubSpot into full contact infrastructure to provide contact sort of the full contact information about people in the HubSpot applications.”
Bart Lorang Dec 20, 2016 ▶ 4:32 EP 513: $50M Raised, Helping 50k Customers Get Accurate Contact Data with FullContact CEO Bart Lorang
Assertion Contradicted
HubSpot achieved 0% net revenue churn around 2015
“I know that HubSpot recently, I think in the past year hit zero percent revenue churn.”
Don Breckenridge, Jr. Oct 16, 2016 ▶ 11:55 EP 449: SMB SaaS <3% Churn, $5M Raised, $200k MRR Helping SMB's Manage Relationships with Hatchbuck CEO Don Breckenridge
Assertion Supported
Fuller: Peter Caputa built an $80M agency reseller channel at HubSpot
“Basically he created eighty million in revenue from nothing as a an AE at HubSpot. He's now oversees eighty million dollars in revenue from turning marketing agencies into resellers of HubSpot.”
Jared Fuller Mar 7, 2016 ▶ 17:29 How To Grow a $10 Million Annual Recurring Revenue SaaS Business Jared Fuller Episode 193
Assertion Supported
Fuller: PandaDoc closed partnerships with HubSpot, Oracle, and Salesforce
“We've built and close partnerships with companies as large as HubSpot Oracle Salesforce where basically our product is in front of their customers and they're kind of, Power resellers, so to speak.”
Jared Fuller Mar 7, 2016 ▶ 15:02 How To Grow a $10 Million Annual Recurring Revenue SaaS Business Jared Fuller Episode 193
Insight
Bellows: Marketing automation is one-to-many; sales acceleration is one-to-one
“Those people are sort of higher in the funnel, if you will. Those are marketing automation companies, and so they focus on one-to-many marketing blasts and communications from a marketing group, and whereas we focus on the one-to-one between the salesperson a…”
Matthew Bellows Feb 5, 2016 ▶ 16:51 Yesware Aims for $30m in 2016 with Matthew Bellows of Yesware
Disclosure
Lillia: Younium operates between CRMs and accounting software to manage subscriptions
“We typically sit between like a Salesforce and a HubSpot and a backend like a NetSuite or a QuickBooks and perhaps your own service and how to get that orchestrated and done in a good way, all the way from, you know, quoting, Dealing with the subscription over…”
Nicholas Lillia Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 2:31 How Younium Hit 200 Customers Paying $30k ACV For its Billing and Revenue Analytics tool
Disclosure
Kilens gives culture carriers quarterly budgets to drive bottom-up team events
“And what we've done at AirMeets, at HubSpot, at Drift, is we've gotten people together on the team who want to be the, kind of, the life of the party of the team. So these people are empowered. I give them budget. I give them X amount of money per quarter. The…”
Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 6:22 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HubSpot and Drift adopted MSPOT goal frameworks at $50M and $40M
“We did this, you know, probably when we were like, fifty million at HubSpot. We did this kind of when we were at forty million at Drift. We're doing this now at AirMeet even sooner, right?”
Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 13:51 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet
Disclosure
Smith: Leon integrates with Salesforce and HubSpot to predict team burnout
“So what Leon does is we integrate into like Salesforce. We primarily work with sales teams, by the way we integrate with Salesforce and HubSpot, and then we use sentiment analysis using diagnostic surveys and whatnot. Combine that into an algorithm that gives …”
Brian Smith Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 1:32 Genius Combo of SaaS Marketplace hits $2.4m ARR for Sales Burnout Tool
Disclosure
PlusThis Acquires Customers Through Marketing Consultants and Platform Marketplaces
“One is working from, with consultants, marketing automation consultants out there that are working with their clients and they become resellers either on a wholesale model or just a referral, like affiliate referral model. We also try to work directly with the…”
Dave Lee Sep 30, 2020 ▶ 8:43 PlusThis Does $85k in Profit Every Month Selling Marketing Tools to 3,000 SMB's
Disclosure
Smajić: CRM partnerships drive significant inbound leads for GetAccept
“So, I mean, all the CRMs, HubSpot, Pipedrive Microsoft Dynamics we have some local here in the Nordic region that are driving a lot of leads to us. So partners has always been focused for us. It took a while to get there and to get their like interest in us. B…”
Samir Smajić Dec 29, 2018 ▶ 5:50 1253 GetAccept Breaks 4000 Customers, Grew ARR 3x to $1.7m in ARR Last 12 Months
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Donnelly: Seventh Sense pays nothing to HubSpot, Marketo, or Google
“We don't give anything to HubSpot or Marketo or Google.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 3:01 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
Disclosure
HubSpot and Resultados Digitais are Content Tools partners and customers
“HubSpot is a partner of content tools and a customer. They are too.”
Amelia Chagas Jul 11, 2017 ▶ 18:21 717: Why Moving Her Team to Brazil Was Genius
Assertion Supported
Lorang: HubSpot had around $100M ARR at IPO
“Yeah, they were, no, they were, I think they were about a hundred million ARR.”
Bart Lorang Dec 20, 2016 ▶ 12:32 EP 513: $50M Raised, Helping 50k Customers Get Accurate Contact Data with FullContact CEO Bart Lorang
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