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Old 02-09-2015, 06:54 PM  
Sigurd
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Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg
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RESUME

We create a leading platform in the world for wholesale trading, where any retail company can find the lowest purchase price for the goods, that increases the income of the company up to 40%. We collect wholesale prices from manufacturers and wholesale suppliers, lead it to a unified nomenclature, set the data into a single database, and stores pay for access to this database. Thus stores get necessary information on the availability and prices of goods from suppliers and distributors optimize distribution channels of goods.

The company successfully works on the Russian market and has achieved great success:

● more than 500 000 SKUs
● more than 500 suppliers
● plus 200 stores in the month (over 2 000 registered stores)

We are looking for $ 800,000 to expand to additional vertical and regional markets and add product functionality. Our current investor (USA Venture fund - RSV Venture Partners are ready to invest $400K)


DESCRIPTION

Our product is created for stores and should help them to solve the problem of finding information on the availability and prices of goods from wholesale suppliers. As an additional service stores have the ability to update information by API on its own web site or database and upload their own prices and goods at our service. Our potential customers - more than 1,500,000 stores in Russia.

Miiix is a service based on the SaaS model. Clients pay for access to the service as a monthly subscription.

GO TO MARKET

Currently, the most effective channel for attracting customers for us is organic traffic and SEO. Clients find us on their own, they have a big problem and our task - as quickly as possible to meet their needs, with each month a customer brings in an average of $150. In the near future we plan to actively use contextual advertising and enter into partnership agreements with various CMS, such as UMI, InSales and 1CBitrix.

COMPETITION

We have several business competitors, there are stand-alone solutions, for example, E-Trade Price List Importer from the Company Elbuz Group and several SaaS solutions at some industrial markets, for example, MarketMixer.net in Russia or tyre24.de in Germany and 7 more European countries at the markets of tires and wheels. The Project Miiix differs from above mentioned ones with a big quality of additional information, improved functionality and lower prices because of information processing automatization.

FOUNDERS AND TEAM SERGEI RYABOV, CO-FOUNDER, CEO & DMITRII BEREZNITSKIY, CO-FOUNDER, CTO

Set up and realized several joint online projects among which the system of contextual advertising elitistclub.com, the system concerning the attraction of traffic into affiliated shops Mosquito, the registrar of domains ruler-domains.com, recommended startup deeep.me, web-studio aller-design.ru. All these products were successfully sold to the partners and other bigger companies. After that several online shops were created, prestigewheels.ru and sportmanya.ru, where the founders faced the problem of the actuality of information and solved it for themselves. In such a way Miiix was born.
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