From the working-class to the entrepreneur: the Raksul founder who makes the group print easier

In 2008, Songbengong was a consultant at Kearney (at Kearney) to help business companies save costs. After gaining a certain amount of experience, he realized that the larger cost of the company is printing costs, Japan has more than 30,000 printing companies, but the entire market is dominated by two giants, occupy the entire market http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/ Aggregation/30044.html "> half. He realized that the market was remarkably inefficient.

"Why do small print companies have no way to get orders in a more efficient way?" he said. ”

Matsumoto believed the Internet could change all this, and when he was still working as a consultant, in 2009 he started a start-up website, "Print. com" (Insatsu hikaku), to help users compare prices between different print companies.

"I'm not risking anything because I'm 24 years old and you're not going to lose anything when you're young," he said. And I just want to do something that belongs to me, so it's a sure way to start a start-up company. It's not easy to explain. ”

When the "Print. com" Business, Matsumoto and the printer company, each time to go to a company, in order to put them on their own platform, in 2010 he made the decision to leave from Kearney, to put his heart and soul to his company. He doesn't really like counseling, he's always feeling the entrepreneurial spirit flowing through his body.

By the year 2012, his start-up company, from Yahoo Japan, rising capital, Anri fund and other investment funds to obtain 2.3 million U.S. dollars in financing, now with money, he opened a new Web site in 2013 years Raksul.

Raksul not only in the printing company, is an E-commerce site, mainly focused on the field of printing, according to your location, print volume, price and deadlines, the company will automatically recommend the most appropriate printing company, the user will then upload the relevant documents, The back-end Raksul staff will work on sizing and formatting before publishing to the printing company. The print shop will then complete the print work and send the final draft to the customer's door. For each successful printing, the company will charge a certain fee.

"Users enter the printing price comparison site and the Electronic business site is not the same attitude, the same two functions of the site will confuse users, which let us finally decided to operate the two sites separately-" printing. com "and Raksul. ”

The effect of the new site is clear and has attracted 15.5 million of dollars in investment in January. The investment was made by Wil, GMO Ventures Partner, Itochu, Global Brain, Mixi and other investment institutions, in the 3721.html ">2014 year February they have reached 500,000 U.S. dollars sales." Last month, March, sales have increased by one-fold to 1 million dollars. The company is now working with 1700 printing partners throughout Japan, with about 40 employees.

"We are doing well in Japan, so this year we are going to Southeast Asia as our next target," he said. We will continue to carry out the business of comparing the price of the printing company. ”

You may have heard of another electric dealer printing website Vistaprint, but the Raksul concept is not the same, because the former has its own printer, and the latter does not.