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 :)

Here's my video that I submitted to YC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdR_2AODciE&feature=youtu.be

Might be useful for someone in the future.

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.

Rejected with http://www.appodeal.com/ (squeeze more revenues from mobile ad networks)

Have been working on it for almost a year now and really close to break even. Probably, because I am the only founder.

Hey. This is what we've managed to build in 2 months.

It's integrated with Coinbase.com and european payment system OkPay. It basically allows two things: accept Bitcoin payments on web-site or over API or to buy/sell Bitcoins and keep it on our wallet. It is very similar to Coinbase, except for the audience, which is european primarily.There are two developers in a team, ceo and me, being a sponsor. We've been working on it for 2 months. Monthly budget is $6000.We need a serious partner here, who could mentor us, help financially and plan milestones and overall strategy. We set up an account with OkPay as an offshore company and end up with .io domain to avoid potential legal difficulties.

Let me know what you think about it.

I filed a report on IC3.gov website.

Good point. I already saved a copy of system logs.

They are using mixer service. I am unable to track them. https://blockchain.info/tree/111322425

Hm. What's wrong with FileVault?

I knew that there could be some issues with my laptop after service it Apple, they informed me about it. But I thought to myself, come on, it's just a minor cooler issue, they won't even need to login to fix it. How could they possible break anything.

I never suspected it could happen at Apple. And it's not about $10, you know. It's $8500! I was counting on that money.

Well, yes, they informed me that I might lose my data, but they did not inform me, that it might be stolen.

I tried to settle it down, but it looks you are right and I have to hire an attorney to get my money back. I wonder how much it will cost me.

Thank you. There are some technical issues, but I believe it's all feasible.

It's a common practice to say things like that in the embassy. She went to Moscow, Russia, because US embassy in Minsk, Belarus is not issuing visas and Belarus citizens have to go to another country to get a visa. Kyiv is not a part of Belarus. It is a capital of another country Ukraine. So it does not matter where she goes, to Kyiv or Moscow. Both cities are not part of Belarus.

I think you are making a very good point.

I'm sorry, but you are wrong. L1A are granted for one year and then you have to renew it on a yearly basis.

Huge part of Silicon Valley and US economy depends on immigrants like me.

I agree. There are many other great places to do business. Do you think I should suggest and recommend foreign entrepreneurs (who are ready to invest their money and time in american economy) to invest in other great places?

Some people think, that the whole story is made up. Please let me answer your questions, so that you have no doubts it's 100% genuine.

Q: Your wife went to see her parents. Why you say she is scared and alone in unfamiliar city.

A: Becuase there's no way to get a visa in Belarus. You have to go to Moscow.

Q: The story is made up, because emabassy in Belarus is not issuing visas.

A: Right. That's why if your parents live in Belarus, you have to go to another country, like Russia, to have an interview and then stay about a week in a hotel, waiting for your passport. You can't go back to Belarus, because they keep your passport at the embassy and not giving it back to you right away, even if you passed interview and your visa was granted.

Q: Why did you apply for a new visa if your previous was issued only 2 months ago?

A: Both L1 and L2 visas are linked to your blanket petition. Petition is another document, issued by USCIS for 1 year. You can't get a visa, which expiration date is longer than your petition expiration date. My petition was approved in August 2012, but I received it in fact only in spring (after more than 6 months). And then, when I received it, it took several more months to make final preparations for the movement, so we were able to get a visa for her only in June (which expired in August according to petition expiration) and moved to the U.S. right away after that. And again, petition has been extended already, but I only received it in August, even though it has been extended since April.

Right. That's why if your parents live in Belarus, you have to go to another country, like Russia, to have an interview and then stay about a week in a hotel, waiting for your passport. You can't go back to Belarus, because they keep your passport at the embassy and not giving it back to you right away, even if you passed interview and your visa was granted.