From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7shifts (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Did you just do more of the same for the next few years?

Jordan Boesch: Yes. There were some interesting moments. We hit about 30 people. You start to feel these inflection points where things start to get rocky. It’s a lack of process for things. As a startup, you thrive off of not having processes.

As we grew, I could feel that starting to happen at 30 people. We brought in a consultant to help us in putting in some lightweight frameworks to help guide the business. That was helpful for us. When we hit 50 people, we had almost a full-time facilitator that was part of our team that was doing planning with us and helping with some lightweight frameworks.

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From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7shifts (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of marketing and customer acquisition, was Google search still yielding for you?

Jordan Boesch: Yes. If you searched for something as basic as restaurant scheduling software, there’d be no organic relevant results. We thought this was a great opportunity to build content around these keywords. We didn’t have a ton of money to spend on Adwords. We were very careful about that.

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Sramana Mitra: What is your relationship with companies like Zendesk and Freshworks?

Raghu Ravinutala: I call it frenemies. We integrate with Zendesk. Any transfer is handled by Zendesk. We have a lot of cases where we have replaced Zendesk as well. In some cases, we do compete with handling the same budget out there. The biggest thing I talk about is Salesforce as an investor in the company.

From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7shifts (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were your other co-founders technical?

Jordan Boesch: My wife is not technical. She was doing client success, sales, and business development. I was doing design and web development. Our third co-founder was doing the mobile apps.

Sramana Mitra: How did you find him?