Stramousov

Founder of leading web-based services and platforms

Serial IT entrepreneur, investor

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Stramousov

Mark

Mission

To create a highly efficient world of happy individuals, where people and businesses use their time and resources efficiently.

To turn ideas into projects useful to society and businesses.

Profilance Group is an ecosystem of the future

an online infrastructure connecting

ideas and partners

investors

teams of professionals

Proprietary research and testing system for business ideas

Strong, trusty, and genuine partnership

ecosystem

Profilance Group

70+

professionals in 23 cities

3 327 000+

IT services users reached

10+

years of successful project implementation

dollars invested in project launching

Professional and self-organized remote team

Teal policies and implements in business management

Stringent job requirements based on personal qualities and life accomplishments

Intrapreneurship

#softwareengineer

In school, Mark took interest in STEM subjects. He got a grade of 88% in his final math exam which was the second-best result in his school. After school, he got enrolled into the Faculty of Computer Sciences of Vyatka State University, specializing in software engineering.

Mark worked on a software system for signal demodulation and decoding, upgrading and improving it. He travelled for work to military bases in the Russian Far East: the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, and Vladivostok.

Software engineering was the outset of his career. 1.5 years later he quit his job, as he started building his own IT business.

During his 4th year of university studies, Mark started putting his knowledge to use, and he was offered an internship at ZAO NPP «ZNAK», the largest defense research and production enterprise manufacturing hardware and software systems for Russian intelligence services. Upon graduation, he was offered a position of a programmer.

School and university

Specialty practical training

Mark learned how to put together business plans in an economics-focused school. Even at that time he realized that he wanted to become a businessman.

When he worked as a programmer in a high-level defense company after university, Mark was determined to come up with a business idea. Alongside his daytime job he began brainstorming and evaluating ideas for his future enterprise.

#studentdays

Mark saw an opportunity in the realm of online businesses. Unlike their offline counterparts, online businesses are easy and comparatively inexpensive to set up. He had been looking for such a business idea for about a year when he found it on a walk.

Mark would often help his classmates with math in school, and later other university students would pay for his assistance in their studies. He would do all the work himself while advertising his services on free online platforms. Referrals brought new clients. When all these facts came together, the idea of an online student assistance service was born.

#firstbusinessidea

The initial number of customers fell short of expectations. Mark started mastering all sorts of business skills: from promotion channels to budgeting, playing all the roles in his project. Before the third month after its launch was over, the service was already in the black.

At first Mark feared that someone would steal the idea, so he wouldn’t let anyone but family members be a part of his business. Over time he tamed his fears and started building a team of professionals to grow and scale his project. Mark hired people for remote work from the start, as he wished for freedom of movement and flexible working hours.

#firstchallenges

Mark had his first web service coded and designed by a professional. The first stage took about nine months. At launch it had many bugs, and Mark personally checked the code and debugged it together with the developer.

#firststartup

At the beginning, Mark thought he would launch another project in a year, based on his business success story, but it was no sooner than 5 years later that his next two services came into being.

In tandem with his team Mark developed a unique startup testing and launching technique and refined their business promotion strategies. He gained invaluable experience of building professional project teams.

Today the web service «Vse sdal!» dominates the market, helping over 100 thousand students with more than 300 thousand assignments every year.

Mark has founded a digital ecosystem «Profilance Group», which brings together ideas, teams, and investments. They bring projects up from idea to profit.

#projectsuccess

His portfolio already includes four IT projects, two of which are market leaders. He constantly explores new ideas and launches new projects. His aim is to enter the international market and to build a unicorn startup in the next few years.

#newinvestments

Mark is a Candidate Master of Sports in Greco-Roman wrestling;

he has been into freediving since a young age, with his personal best time holding a breath of 4 minutes and 5 seconds;

in school, he studied in a creativity- and music-focused class;

as a teenager, he made some money on the side as a watchman, a groundskeeper, a general helper, and a street promoter.

from the age of 11, he has been good in managing and saving money;

he graduated from a music school, specializing in the balalaika (a Russian folk instrument), he performed in an orchestra and went on music tours to several regions of Russia;

Time management and systematic planning brings productivity and balance to all spheres of life

During his fifth year of university, Mark met his future wife. They got married a week after his graduation. Lyudmila is a doctor, currently retraining in preventive medicine.

Mark and Lyudmila are raising a daughter. Wife, daughter, and parents are of top priority in Mark’s busy life. Since 2020 he has been researching his ancestry and working on his family tree.

Travel is an indispensable part of Mark’s life. Freedom and flexibility of movement is the very reason he chose to build a remotely working team. Travel is not just about rest and relaxation, but it is a source of new experiences, discovery, and insight. Going overseas broadens one’s horizons and allows being a step ahead in business.

Every two months Mark visits new places and countries. His travel log already lists such countries as South Africa, Namibia, Saint Lucia, Peru, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Iceland, and the USA among others.

Constant growth is a fundamental part of Mark’s professional life. He regularly undergoes training courses from leading industry experts in top business schools in Russia. Then he puts his new knowledge into practice with his team.

In 2021, he went on an extensive business trip to Silicon Valley, delving into the working environment of such world-renowned companies as Google, Netflix, and others;

In 2022, he visited Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The trip was meant to push his inner limits and remove boundaries between him and foreign markets;

In 2023, he participated in an expedition to India, where he learned about modern trends in the IT industry and unicorn companies’ business strategies.

Mark values his social environment and makes time for friendly get-togethers and meetings of minds. The latter helps him keep abreast with new trends and developments on the market.

Mark has been a member of «Club 500», a prestige Russian business club, from its very founding. He is also a member of «Etalon» business club. There he found friends and an interesting resource environment which allows him to set and accomplish big goals.

In the last few years Mark has been exploring biohacking and keeping a special balanced diet. Regular workouts, stretching and yoga sessions also contribute to his healthy lifestyle. Such habits fill his life with energy, well-being, and help convert his ideas into reality.

Education

Vyatka State University, Faculty of Computer Sciences, software engineering

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, SKOLKOVO Practicum

ANTIMBA
Educational programme for top managers and owners of mid-cap and large businesses

Performia, staff recruitment and management

Negotiations training by Igor Ryzov, negotiations consultant

Time management

Business expeditions

Biography

Mark was born on 4 October 1986 to an average Russian family in Kirov. His father was a bus driver, however he was very well-read. He taught Mark to play intellectual games and cultivated his love for learning. His mother was a rate fixer working at a factory until it shut down in 1990, when she became a bus conductor in Mark’s father’s bus.

#familystory

Mark grew up with a little brother, 1.5 years younger than him. From his childhood, he was always self-sufficient. On his first day at school, he told his mother that she did not need to accompany him, that he would be on his own from that moment. He never asked for help with his homework, did well in school and graduated with excellence.

Mark has always had a head for exact sciences. However, his music-oriented class has cultivated creativity and versatile personality in him. Besides, systematic sport practice has laid the foundation for his resolute qualities and leadership development.

#talents

A few years later Mark’s parents decided to go into trade. They brought goods from Moscow and sold them in small towns. At first their business went well and they opened a small shop, but later it failed to meet their expectations and yielded serious losses. Eventually Mark took their financial problems upon himself and solved them.

Mark lived in Kirov until he turned 30, then he moved to Saint Petersburg with his spouse and daughter, where he has been living up to the present day.

#parentsbusiness

#relocation

Colour, leopard

City, Saint Petersburg

Dish, chocolate-covered raisins

Social media, VK

Season, summer

Film, Marvel Cinematic Universe, «Smallville»

Book, Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin series

Celebrity, Elon Musk

Fruit, banana

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