Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis are the founders of AptDeco, where you can buy and sell used furniture. They were in the YC Winter 2014 batch and you can find them at AptDeco.com.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

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Topics

0:21 - What is AptDeco?

1:06 - Why did Reham and Kalam start it?

2:51 - Were they considering other ideas?

5:06 - How did they prepare to start AptDeco after business school/the corporate world?

6:21 - Getting over the fear of starting

9:21 - Communicating that they're starting something to friends and family

14:21 - Starting a startup after business school

17:21 - Helpful learnings from a more traditional business education

27:21 - Early models of AptDeco vs today

31:51 - AptDeco's customers

34:06 - Brands and customer acquisition

38:46 - Learning how to do delivery

42:06 - Deciding not to warehouse furniture

43:51 - Ideas that didn't work and some that worked on the second attempt

48:21 - Analytics

50:51 - Being a NYC company in YC

52:11 - How to make the most of YC