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How to choose a startup CRM at different growth stages

Nutshell advises founders to match CRM choice to their current growth stage, basing adoption on operational necessity rather than industry trends and aligning needs to pre-seed, Series A, and Series B stages.
When teams grow beyond five people and accounts rise above 50, founder-held customer knowledge fragments into silos, and critical follow-ups get lost in notebooks, shared spreadsheets, email threads and calendars.
At Series A, shift to process-enabling CRMs with automation, lead scoring, pipeline management, reporting, integrations, and avoid platforms bottlenecking beyond 10-20 users.
Implementing the right CRM gives sales teams pipeline visibility and repeatable processes, delivering automation that reduces administrative overhead and improves forecasting at the Series A stage.
The global CRM market totals $112.91 billion and is expected to grow 12.4%, with most startups using multiple CRM systems as they scale, so plan migrations and prioritize alignment over feature-heavy CRMs.

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