EP 144 : Sell Anything Online - Suumit Shah (Founder & CEO - Dukaan) | Ecommerce | Build for Bharat

Suumit is a serial entrepreneur and has founded several startups. He is the founder and CEO of Dukaan, a platform that democratizes e-commerce. In this episode he spoke about pivoting from services to products, picking a problem to solve, building for the the bharat user and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:03 Pivoting from services to products

03:44 What are merchants looking for

07:39 Going from Idea to product to company

11:42 Picking a problem

14:31 Working on Discoverability

16:05 SaaS adoption among SMBs

18:27 Building a successful Freemium model

21:17 Principles of building for the bharat user

22:51 Challenges Suumit is solving

24:16 Advice to young entrepreneurs

25:16 Scaling v/s proving business model

26:45 Impact of capital on the ecosystem

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