The Silicon Valley of India’s RICHEST Student (Suumit Shah of Dukaan)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk to Suumit Shah of Dukaan.

Suumit is a software engineer from Bangalore, India—AKA the Silicon Valley of India!!

When the pandemic started and people everywhere were looking for ways to sell online, Suumit noticed a BIG problem. There were tons of websites to help people start online stores but NONE of them were smartphone friendly.

So he created Dukaan in 48-hours. (Y’all know I’m a BIG fan of building a business in a weekend!!)

Then he listed it on AppSumo to get customers and make $130k.

Dang. Good work Suumit!!

You can actually shop Dukaan on AppSumo RIGHT NOW. It’s just $69, there’s no subscription fees, and you can set up a store right from your phone. Go to www.AppSumo.com/Products/Dukaan

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about what the Silicon Valley of India is like, you’ll love this episode.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

- What people DON’T know about India’s entrepreneurship scene

- Suumit’s biggest life lesson for people to succeed and stand out like he has

- And how Suumit built and launched a million-dollar business in a weekend

Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

Also, if you want to launch your own business but don’t know where to start, I reopened my course Monthly1K for just $10. It’s helped thousands of people start their business journey and I know it will help you too. Head over to OkDork.com/Monthly1K and sign up.

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Get more from Suumit on Twitter at @SuumitShah

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Setting up the store using mobile phone on Shopify is impossible.
0:04.3	Despite you know you are a techie you know everything you are using iPhone but India doesn't use
0:08.4	iPhone. India uses you know like $100 smartphone or let me play
0:11.0	a hundred and a dollar smartphone.
0:13.0	That is the reality.
0:15.0	Plus if you go to like normal businesses,
0:16.0	you won't find like people using you know
0:18.0	desktops or laptops or anything at all.
0:20.0	Barely like 1% people have the desktop or laptop in their physical store.
0:24.1	So yeah, that's the reality of India.
0:26.2	How do I get back in the business?
0:27.9	The stores are said the streets are empty, the consumers are not going out of home, it's a
0:32.1	straight lockdown, there are like cops all over so how do I sell
0:35.1	online I think we launched within 40 hours it was simple Android application all you have to do
0:39.3	is just verify your phone number what is up you beautiful bastards your boy sunshine
0:46.0	sunshine aka rabbi can't lose aka no-kagan
0:48.8	today's episode i talked to sum meet shaw of dukan
0:51.9	sumid is a software engineer from Bangalore, India,
0:54.2	aka the Silicon Valley of India.
0:57.2	I was really curious because on AppSuma.com,
0:59.4	a company I helped run, which is software deals
1:01.0	for startups and freelancers and solopreneers like yourselves.
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