Riches in Niches - The Journey of PushOwl ft. Shashank Kumar

The Indian Dream

On the episode today, we have with us Shashank Kumar, Founder of PushOwl
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On this episode, we talk to Shashank about his journey of building, scaling and selling Pushowl.
We discuss the following topics:
(01:41) - Shashank's Thesis that led to quitting Microsoft, and the initial failures
(09:25) - Financial Survival for a Bootstrapped Business & the Entrepreneur in the initial years
(13:13) - Fighting the psychological battle of quitting when the times are tough
(15:19) - Finding the idea of PushOwl and hiring the first team member
(17:45) - How should Indie hackers decide what's a good time to quit?
(20:19) - Finding Product Market Fit on Shopify
(26:51) - How to Interact with Customers without asking leading questions
(29:22) - Hiring for Bootstrapped Businesses
(33:14) - Choosing to stay bootstrapped even when there was Venture Capital interest
(39:30) - Decision to Sell the Business to SendinBlue
(41:00) - Risk of Building on someone else's platform - Platform Risk
(44:32) - Headless Commerce - The new wave in E-commerce
(47:38) - Advice for young Indie Hackers