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Re:Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco (YC W14) – Start... by Getpake on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:25PM (#12687122)
Hi AptDeco team,

When growth started coming in quickly, how were you able to distinguish between good and bad opportunities? Such that ones that would result in big revenue growth, but didn't fit your core values?

Thanks so much!

Re:Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco (YC W14) – Start... by reham on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:21PM (#12689011)
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 acquisition we tried to build a "hack" version of an idea to validate it. If we saw that customers were responding to it then we'd start thinking about scaling it.