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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring in CX, Engineering, People, & Marketing
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring a Sr Product Manager and Sr Growth Marketing Manager
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AptDeco is hiring in sales, product, engineering, and customer experience
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AptDeco (YC W14) Hiring Director of Customer Experience, Senior Product Designer
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AptDeco (YC W14) Hiring a Director Of Customer Experience, Growth Marketer, more
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AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring for operations, marketing, product and engineering
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring a HR People and Culture Manager in NYC
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring Product Designer, HR Manager and Engineer
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AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer in NYC
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AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer in NYC
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring a Growth Marketing Manager in NYC
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AptDeco Is Hiring Engineers and a Growth Marketing Manager
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AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a growth hacker in NYC
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring Engineers and Customer Experience Mgrs in NYC
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring a Customer Experience Manager in NYC
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AptDeco is hiring engineers, customer experience mgrs and more in NYC
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AptDeco (used furniture marketplace) is hiring Dir of Ops and General Mgr
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AptDeco Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers and General Manager in NYC and DC
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10y ago
That would definitely be very handy! Haven't seen anything similar.
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reham
10y ago
It's definitely a balance. Now you don't want to grow slow enough where you're not seeing any growth month over month or year over year. The perception these days is that profitability = slow growth. That's not the case
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10y ago
I'm glad you found it helpful. We've tried so many things, I don't know where to start. From flyering, to direct mail, to Craigslist and other sites. Balancing the chicken and egg is definitely a big challenge. My advice to y
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10y ago
We do have a rating system but it's not widely used. Definitely have a lot of opportunity for improvement :)
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10y ago
Look at your expenses very closely especially customer acquisition costs and LTV. Are you acquiring customers who will come back and use again? Will they tell their friends about you? How long before you pay back the money you spent on the
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10y ago
I wish I could tell you there was a magic formula. The reality is we tried a lot of things, most didn't work and a few worked really well. So we doubled down on the things that worked. Before writing any lines of code or spent money on
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We're both. We think of ourselves as equal parts marketplace and logistics company.
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10y ago
kalam and I both have experience building and managing large teams. Also, we both managed pretty significant partnerships. However, we didn't have starup experience perse nor experience in the furniture industry but it so happened that
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First and foremost we had to focus on what made sense for our business. Initially we were trying to grow super fast without looking at our bottom line. After a lot of introspection we decided what made sense for our business is to grow (sti
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Glad you enjoyed our talk. We still don't know how the van exploded. After months of investigation by our insurance company and van manufacturer, the root cause is still unknown.
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10y ago
Reham and Kalam here. Let us know if you have any questions about AptDeco.
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AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring VP of Eng, Head of Ops and PM Intern in NYC
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