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Why Do Employee or Student Counts from our API Endpoint Differ from LinkedIn's Data?

1. Our Employee/Student Listing API endpoint relies on LinkDB, a database that exclusively gathers public LinkedIn profiles. Consequently, the data we can provide is only as comprehensive as the content available in LinkDB. 2. LinkedIn's specific heuristics for associating an individual with their employer are not transparent to us.

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Access API Logs in Your Proxycurl Dashboard

We've added API logs to your Proxycurl Dashboard, giving you the power to better understand and debug your use of Proxycurl. The number of logs you gain access to is as follows: Subscription Plan Total Accessible Logs • PAYG • $49/mo plan 5 $299/mo plan 10,000 $899/mo plan

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Why Does the Reverse Work Email Lookup Return Incorrect Results, and Can It Be Fixed?

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return false positives. Even Google's search results can be inaccurate at times. It's important to understand that the Reverse Work Email Lookup doesn't actually search a

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Employee Listings Sorting and Rate Limit Changes for Free APIs

Happy Easter everyone! While children enjoy their candy, you can look forward to new features this week. Introducing sort_by Parameter in the Employee Listing API Endpoint Ever wondered how to find the most recent employees to join Company X or identify those who just left? How about doing this

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Notice of Reveal API Deprecation on 1st of May 2023 at 11am SGT

Please be advised that the Reveal API will be deprecated on the 1st of May 2023, at 11am Singapore Time (SGT). After a thorough analysis, we have decided to discontinue the Reveal API due to the fact that it has not been widely adopted by our customers. This decision has

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Changelog 23rd March 2023 - Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

Fetch the historic employee count of any target company. Megan wrote an excellent piece on extracting and analyzing the historic employee count of any target company. We open-sourced the code so you can fetch historic data yourself with the Proxycurl API. You can read the article here. Enrich profiles in

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Sales & Marketing With Quality Lead Generation: Track Prospects, Get Emails

When we mention lead generation, the single department that most closely-relates or uses lead generation most is sales and marketing. Lead generation is a huge headache for people in sales and marketing. Though there are many channels for finding potential prospects, however to approach quality prospects and get good responses

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Growth Startups: Get Leads, Receive Funding, Hire Talents & Scale Fast

Building a startup is one of the most challenging things to do in life. For bootstrappers, you need to find leads, find users quickly, or risk the venture dying, for funded startups, it is tough to find investors, and venture capitalists and the negotiations might take time thus holding you

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Changelog 14th Feb 2023 - Free layoffs "Data Pack," Improved Person Lookup and Person Profile Endpoint, UI Tweaks, and more!

Dear you, Happy Valentine's day, and here's our valentine to you! In this week's changelog series, I have a special gift worth $11326.67 for all our VC customers. Do read to the end for that! Use the resolve_numeric_id parameter liberally! We tweaked the resolve_numeric_id parameter

What's Next Beyond The Layoffs? - Google

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1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees In $15 Billion Worth Of Startups [2023 Layoffs]

From a life of corporate toiling to startup stardom, droves of ex-Googlers have turned their talents to the startup world. The result? A collective $15 Billion worth of venture-funded startups now call ex-Googlers their own. Who are these ex-Googlers exactly? Which geographical locations are they from? What kind of industries

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Changelog 6th Feb 2023 - Multiple API keys, fresh Employee Count, country filter, follower count, and MORE!

This week, we dropped an update with some changes you might like. I will also be sending these "changelog" updates a bit more frequently so you can keep abreast. You can also track these changelog articles under the changelog tag on our blog. Track follower count on people's profiles We

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Revealing our $124 cold-email hack that got us $83333 in monthly recurring revenue

You got a new product and need a hack to get it into the market. This hack costs $124, and it Proxycurl to a million dollars in annual revenue. This is my go-to market plan right after I finish building Proxycurl, and I will break down how I did it

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Ultimate Guide To All 21 Proxycurl APIs: Enrich People & Company Profiles

At Proxycurl, we pride ourselves with the many data enrichment APIs that we offer to our clients to power their applications. Not just the sheer number of it, but the quality of these APIs, in 8 in-depth features which will be covered in this post. If you heard about us

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I cold emailed our way to $1M ARR in 18 months. Here's the story.

Proxycurl is almost three years old, and we are marching towards 5 million (USD) in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In this post, I will tell you exactly how we got here. Proxycurl is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and we sell data enrichment services on people and businesses to other businesses looking

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Early Stage Startups: Investments, Stages, Funding - In-Depth

What do you think of when you first hear "early-stage" startup? A startup with an idea? An MVP? Some revenue, maybe? The answer is, it depends. For instance, YC (YCombinator) invests in "early-stage" startups with some of them post-revenue while some of them being nothing more than a prototype. It

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Ins & Outs of Demographic Data & Segmentation to Enrich Business

To connect and address the needs of an audience, a speaker must know her audience - who they are and what they do. The same applies to any serious business. Businesses must connect with and understand their customers to create and deliver the right products and services. One way to

Test Proxycurl's API with Postman - Tutorial

Test Proxycurl API with Postman & Free Credits - No Code

Writing codes to evaluate an API service might be too much work. Luckily, there is Postman. So, what is Postman? The Postman platform is a solution for product engineers to test an API service without writing integration code. It is a user interface tool to build, interact and test the

Go-To-Market Strategy: Key Elements & Steps [Full Guide 2023]

Developing a thorough Go-to-market (GTM) strategy is essential for launching a product into a market, it can be a new product in an existing market, an existing product in a new market, or testing a new product’s market. Though unique solutions/products are made, bringing them to the market

B2B Databases & 10 Best B2B Data Providers 2023 [Full Guide]

As businesses look for accurate and up-to-date information to fuel their growth, B2B data providers are becoming increasingly important. These providers provide access to information about companies, people, products, and more. Having access to the right B2B data can help businesses reach their desired customers, increase their sales, find new

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How To Hire The Best Candidates - Free (But Menial) Ways

Dear hiring managers, one of the important roles you might have is hiring, to identify and recruit top talent for your organization. However, we all know that this can be an extremely challenging task, as it requires you to be proactive in seeking out qualified candidates and convincing them to

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Top 10 Best B2B Databases Providers & Softwares 2023

B2B contact databases are essential resources for any business. They provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on customers, allowing businesses to effectively target their marketing and sales efforts. But with so many B2B data providers, it can be hard to choose the right one for your needs. To help you out, we

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We are updating our pricing

We have been around since 2014, and we are here to stay. And staying around means investing in compliance and our data infrastructure. But, most importantly, we need to have unit economics that makes sense. We are updating our pricing model, and these are the following changes: * Jobs API [https:

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7 Major Types of Market Segmentation to Tailor Your Business

Businesses on a regular basis generate and work with customers' or companies' profiles to achieve their end goals. For any business, the customer base becomes a major influential factor that determines growth potential. With businesses having to deal with an extensive range of audiences pre and post-sales, it becomes necessary

Big Tech FAANG Stocks & Companies, What is it? How to Invest?

If you tend to keep up with the tech or finance ecosystem, you've probably come across the term, FAANG. But have you ever wondered what it stands for? Or why was it coined in the first place? We'll dive into what exactly they constitute and what makes them so popular.

LinkedIn Recruiter Pricing in 2023 - Lite, Corporate, Entreprise

LinkedIn Recruiter Pricing 2023- Lite, Corporate, Entreprise

LinkedIn Recruiter is a great tool that helps companies and recruitment agencies find and hire the best candidates for their job openings. It's part of the LinkedIn platform, so it can be used to search through a huge database of LinkedIn profiles to find people who match. It can also

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