golubevpavel

Well, I was looking for a co-founder, but I did not find the right fit. Nowadays it does not make sense to give out 50% of the company to a random guy, that's why I hired a business developer and offered an option.

Thanks for the feedback. I would love to learn more about your product. Lmk if you want to meet for a coffee in SF downtown.

Yeah, I live & work in San Francisco at Rackspace co-working space on Folsom. It's a great place to be. Definitely recommend to everyone.

Always glad to share about myself & Appodeal.

I've been working on it for almost a year now.

There is a team of 12 super strong developers in Russia & Ukraine, that have been working with me for 4 years already. Very loyal. I myself have a strong technical background and remote teams management experience.

Business & sales team consists of me, my operating director and a first sales guy we are going to hire next week and we are all here in SF. So we have a pretty strong tech team (because we don't compete for developers with Google/Facebook). And we have business presence in SF as well.

Traction is pretty good too. We've launched in January and already have $200K monthly revenues and some net revenues as well. Each day we receive 15-25 new sign ups and retention is close to 100%. We are about to launch aggressive marketing this month.

I was not aware of that :)

Standard. Nothing changed.

True. Hard to object. Just to double check, are you from YC?

No, nothing.

Well, I believe it is worth it to stop talking to customers and coding for a moment and try to analyze, why the heck you did not get approved to YC.

I'm not upset, actually it's a good thing that I don't have to give out 7% of my company for $15k. But nevertheless, worth it to analyze.

Well, it took like 3 months to make it look like this. First version was much worse. Luckily we had enough time to polish it up before public launch.

Thank you, really glad to hear that. Inboxed.

We don't charge publishers.

Appodeal makes money by selling to direct advertisers in bulk at a higher rate. Basically we charge advertisers, rather than publishers.

Frankly speaking, this is my second rejection to YC. In 2013 we applied as a team of 4 with a secure mobile instant messenger.

We did get an invitation to the interview, however did not pass it. I guess last time we did not convince them, the our team could execute. Official response from Paul, however, stated, that we lacked a well-done marketing plan.

Apparently, not well enough, haha. Anyway, it might be a good thing after all.

Thank you. Just sent you an e-mail. Would love to chat.