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I extensively researched CRMs a few months back. We were looking for simplicity, cost, and a few key features. Pipedrive was the best we found and it's been really effective for us. If we had a larger sales team (just one person now) we'd consider moving to Salesforce - every sales person you'd hire should know how to use it.

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We like Pipedrive's overall structure (in particular for the way it looks a bit like a Trello board) a lot for the types of sales we do (multi $k/month deals).

The interface is kind of slow and laggy which for something that our sales team spends all day in, is very annoying... For our purposes we can probably live with it but if we were really sweating call volume then I think we'd get something snappier.

We looked at a lot of alternatives and I was blown away by how un-blown-away I was by anything we looked at.

We also opted for Pipedrive for our small sales team of three people. It's fairly intuitive for non-techie sales people and quick to get set up. With a bit of tweaking you can also get it to report on many metrics that are important to startups.

did you look at Base ? I'm also evaluating sales tools for my startup couple of months down - does something like this allow me to migrate to Salesforce a year down the line (easy migration of data).

Definitely +1 for Pipedrive. Works great for us (2 salespersons).

+1 for Pipedrive.

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