Turning ideas into action.
I'm Rauf Can Türksoy, a high school student building a courier–restaurant platform, running an e-commerce operation, and leading an Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club — while performing music and training in Taekwondo on the side.
I'm interested in the intersection of entrepreneurship, business, technology, and human impact. Rather than limiting myself to classroom learning, I've tried to gain experience by actually building and managing projects.
I've explored e-commerce, developed a business idea connecting restaurants and delivery couriers, managed social media and marketing for a local bakery, and founded an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club at my school.
At the same time, music has stayed a constant — performing piano at university openings, playing darbuka in a Turkish Folk Music Choir, and volunteering as a guitar and piano instructor. Five years of Taekwondo, and a Black Belt, taught me the rest: discipline, persistence, and the value of continuous improvement.
Entrepreneurship isn't simply about starting a company. It's about identifying a problem, taking initiative, building a solution, learning from failure, and creating value for other people.
Building, not just studying, the problem.
Three ventures, three different muscles — a platform from scratch, a store run end-to-end, and a community built from nothing.
Restaurant & Courier Platform
A B2B platform connecting restaurants with delivery couriers, designed around a more flexible compensation model for couriers.
- Developed the business concept and model
- Researched the restaurant and courier market
- Designed a flexible courier compensation concept
- Working toward a functioning platform
E-Commerce
Built and ran an online store rather than studying the industry in theory only — testing products, suppliers, and ad strategy against real customer behavior.
- Product & supplier research
- Store operations on Shopify
- Digital marketing & customer acquisition
- Continuous testing and iteration
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club
Founded a school club so other students could explore business ideas beyond talking about them — and start experimenting.
- Recruited members & built the community
- Organized activities and events
- Developed project ideas with members
- Created space for collaboration
Local Bakery
Manage the social media and marketing for a local bakery — content, campaigns, and audience engagement — applying marketing concepts to a real, local business.
eTwinning Projects
Participated in eTwinning projects twice — once in 5th grade, again in 10th — early exposure to international collaboration and project-based learning.
The same discipline, a different instrument.
Performing, teaching, and playing in ensemble — music taught me preparation, patience, and what it means to contribute to something larger than a solo act.
Piano
Performed piano at university openings and various public events, building confidence and the ability to perform under pressure.
Turkish Folk Music Choir
Second percussionist on darbuka — an ensemble experience that taught me individual performance means more when it serves the group.
Guitar & Piano Instructor
Taught 12+ students guitar for free over two years, and piano for one — including helping students get access to their own instruments.
Progress is rarely immediate.
I've practiced Taekwondo for approximately five years, with some breaks along the way, and I still train today. It's taught me that improvement comes from repeating fundamentals, accepting mistakes, and continuing even when progress feels slow — a lesson that shows up in every venture above.
From ideas to action.
These experiences look different on the surface, but they built on each other in order.
Piano, then darbuka
Music came first — performance taught preparation and composure under pressure, and three years in a Turkish Folk Music Choir taught me to play my part inside something bigger than myself.
Taekwondo, Black Belt
Five years of training built the discipline and persistence that everything else since has depended on.
E-commerce
Curiosity about entrepreneurship led me to build and operate an online store — my first real exposure to markets, customers, and digital marketing.
Restaurant–Courier Platform
That experience pushed me to think about larger problems — leading to the platform I'm developing now, connecting restaurants and couriers.
Innovation Club & free lessons
I wanted other students to have the same chance to experiment, so I founded a club at school — and kept teaching guitar and piano for free, because a skill is worth more when it's shared.
What this adds up to.
Founded a B2B restaurant–courier platform, built an e-commerce business, and led marketing for a local bakery.
Founded and led an Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club at school.
Taught 12+ students guitar for free over two years, plus one year of free piano lessons.
Performed piano publicly; three years as a darbuka percussionist in a Turkish Folk Music Choir.
Taekwondo Black Belt after approximately five years of training — still active.
Two eTwinning collaborations, in 5th and 10th grade.
You don't need to wait until you graduate to start building.
Let's talk.
Studying business and entrepreneurship somewhere I can keep building, experimenting, and meeting people who want to solve real problems.
Based in Türkiye. Open to conversations about entrepreneurship, e-commerce, product, and music — and to opportunities to keep building.