What started as a three-person team making t-shirts in a garage grew into a huge company of more than 500 employees across the US, Mexico, and Europe. In 2013, when Davis Siksnans was only 22 years old, he co-founded the business “Printful”. Printful is a print-on-demand drop shipping startup that makes it easy for anyone to sell custom print products online. It provides services including printing, packaging, shipping, and warehousing to help make launching your own e-commerce business as easy as possible. Their goal is to help aspiring entrepreneurs to sell their goods online by allowing them to focus on design, marketing, and sales instead of thinking about the “how” part.
Back in 2012, Siksnans and his team began an online store that offered posters with motivational quotes from successful entrepreneurs. They then wanted to expand this business and start selling apparel the same way they sold these posters. However, they realized there were no services that would do apparel print-on-demand with fast fulfillment and good quality. That’s when they realized the need for a service like Printful. Printful would become one of the world’s leading drop shipping companies.
Siksnans is very open about challenges on his road to success saying “The way I overcome my failures is – I learn from my mistakes and accept that failures are inevitable. Success very rarely comes with the first idea.” He also offers great advice to those wanting to start a business like he did. In a more recent interview, he offers this final piece of advice, “A good time to start is anytime, because a better one will never come. So just start now and see what happens.”
This is a great story! I love that they started as small as motivational posters. That is inspiring for young entrepreneurs, because it shows that anything can grow into a success with enough motivation and entrepreneurial thinking. Great post!