Ruslan Fazlyev

Ruslan Fazlyev

Ruslan Fazlyev, July 2011
Born March 27, 1980
Oktyabrsky, Republic of Bashkortostan, Soviet Union
Residence Ulyanovsk
Occupation Internet Entrepreneur
Years active 2001–present
Known for X-Cart
Ecwid
Net worth Increase US $54 million (February 2014)[1]

Ruslan Renatovich Fazlyev ( Russian: Русла́н Рена́тович Фазлы́ев, born March 27, 1980) is a Russian Internet entrepreneur who has founded several companies. He is best known as a founder and developer of Ecwid and X-Cart e-commerce platforms.[2]

Ruslan is number 14 in Hopes&Fears’s rating of young Russian entrepreneurs[3] and number 56 among Russian internet millionaires according Kommersant’s research.[1] He is also a member of the Expert Council for development of the Information technology industry of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.[4]

Early life

Fazlyev born in Oktyabrsky, Republic of Bashkortostan. Ruslan has been programming since he was seven years old. At first, he used pen and paper. His first personal computer had no screen. Despite all the hardships, Ruslan practised reverse engineering of software and created simple games.[5] In 1997—1999, he studied at Ulyanovsk State Technical University.[6] Ruslan dropped out of education, but nowadays he is regularly invited to lecture at USTU.[7][8] He is married to a woman he met before starting his own business.

Career

Ruslan claims that he became an entrepreneur only because there was no job for him in Ulyanovsk. His first e-commerce software named X-Cart was released in 2001. Fazlyev and his friends utilised the code developed for commercial websites to create the first e-commerce product written in PHP. X-Cart was aimed at small and medium business that could not afford far more expensive and complicated products such as IBM WebSphere Commerce.[9][10]

Ecwid adopted the same approach in 2009.[11] It is an e-commerce platform that can be built into any existing website or social network page. An award-winning product[12] received a 1,5M round from the Runa Capital venture fund in December 2011[13] and a syndicated 5M round from Runa Capital and iTech Capital in May 2013.[13] Ecwid has been the most popular social network trading software in the world since 2012.[14] Ruslan is CEO of Ecwid and Board Member of X-Cart.[2][15]

Long before engaging in the software business he created the first telecommunication company in Ulyanovsk. It was sold to a larger competitor in 2002.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Топ-100 российских интернет-миллионеров" (in Russian). kommersant. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About Ruslan R. Fazlyev on Runa Capital's site". Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  3. ↑ Полина Потапова (2013-11-27). "Рейтинг успешных молодых предпринимателей России: 2013" (in Russian). The Village. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  4. ↑ "Приказ о внесении изменений в состав Экспертного совета по развитию отрасли информационных технологий, утвержденный приказом Министерства связи и массовых коммуникаций Российской Федерации от 27.09.2012 № 233" (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  5. ↑ Марина Малыхина (2013-11-14). "Руслан Фазлыев, основатель Ecwid: "Не начинайте свой бизнес ни в коем случае", интервью в рамках программы Капиталисты. Клуб 33. Сезон инноваций" (in Russian). TV Rain. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  6. ↑ "Руслан Фазлыев: Задачи IT-министерства мне непонятны" (in Russian). Ulpressa.ru. 2011-11-12. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  7. ↑ Юлия Узрютова (2014-07-21). "ULCAMP-2014 – это как окрошка по любимому рецепту" (in Russian). Ulpressa.ru. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  8. ↑ "ULCAMP концентрирует замечательных людей, искренне увлеченных своим делом: интервью ИА REGNUM" (in Russian). Regnum. 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  9. ↑ Leonid Mikheyev (2014-09-11). "Russian e-commerce platform goes global". Russia Beyond the Headlines. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  10. ↑ Ирина Телицына (2010-10-27). "Для меня конкуренция не вопрос денег" (in Russian). Forbes. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  11. ↑ Карен Шаинян (2013-10-25). "Как победить Facebook, не выезжая из Ульяновска" (in Russian). Slon. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  12. ↑ "Результаты конкурса стартапов" (in Russian). Forbes. 2010-10-01. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Robin Wauters (2011-12-14). "Shopping Cart Software Maker Ecwid Raises $1.5M; Expands To US, UK". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  14. ↑ Алексей Каменский (2013-01-30). "Как российский стартап стал главным конструктором магазинов в Facebook" (in Russian). Forbes. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  15. ↑ Ирина Жаворонкова (2013-06-14). "Основатель Ecwid Руслан Фазлыев — о своих ошибках в бизнесе" (in Russian). Деловая Среда. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  16. ↑ "Профиль на сайте E-pepper" (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-03-18.

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