Steven Goh | CEO

World's laziest CEO. Before starting the highly-successful Proxycurl and Sapiengraph, Steven founded 5 other startups: Gom VPN, Kloudsec, SilvrBullet, NuMoney, and SharedHere.

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

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

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

Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

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

Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees in $15B Startups (2023 Layoffs)

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

1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees in $15B Startups (2023 Layoffs)

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

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&

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Know All About Early Stage Startups

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

Know All About Early Stage Startups

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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

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

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

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B2B Databases & 10 Best B2B Data Providers [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

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

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

Top 10 B2B Data Providers

Top 10 Best B2B Databases Providers & Softwares

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

Top 10 B2B Data Providers

We are updating our pricing.

We are updating our pricing

✏️In early 2024, we've implemented further updates to our pricing plans, notably the introduction of Annual Plans - which have cheaper and more credits. Check it out here. We have been around since 2014, and we are here to stay. And staying around means investing in compliance and

We are updating our pricing.

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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

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FAANG Companies

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

FAANG Companies

50 Types of LinkedIn Data

50 Types of LinkedIn Data You Can Get (You’ll Be Surprised)

As you would already know, LinkedIn is a popular social media platform for professionals and businesses. It has tons and tons of valuable data that can be useful for so many use cases. In fact, many people and businesses use LinkedIn regularly to connect with others in their industry, find

50 Types of LinkedIn Data

What Is Identity Resolution? Definition with Real World Uses

Identifying your customers' needs and providing an experience personalized for each customer is one of the most effective ways to achieve customer success and stay ahead of competition. Identity Resolution (IR) is one of the many data management strategies used by businesses to manage and provide consistent product experience

Know all about cURL and its use cases. Comes with extensive codes samples

Using cURL In 5 Actual Scenarios (+ Extensive Codes Samples)

Every application you have ever interacted with goes through the client-server or request-response connection cycle. This connection is made possible by protocols HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, LDAP, and many others and their methods. HTTP protocols provide popular methods like GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE to send requests to a server

Know all about cURL and its use cases. Comes with extensive codes samples

How to fetch `geo_id` parameter for the Job API?

How to fetch `geo_id` parameter for the Job API?

The geo_id parameter in the Job Listing API and Job Listing Count API represents the ID that LinkedIn prescribes to a region. This article will explain how you get get a matching geo_id for a given region you want to target. Follow these steps to get the geo_

How to fetch `geo_id` parameter for the Job API?

Know All about Stealth Startups

Stealth Startups - The Good, The Bad, & Where To Find Them

When you hear the word "Startups," what comes to mind? Most likely, new companies with shiny new ideas for products or services and making the front pages of tech news. Actively and publicly seeking capital from different sources - loans, crowdfunding, and venture capitalists (VCs). But did you

Know All about Stealth Startups

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Top 20 Best Lead Generation Companies

Every business will always have a need for lead generation. Lead generation is one primary strategy to hit your revenue target regularly. Apart from marketing your brand, your lead generation efforts also help you engage your customers with the right goods and services. In this article, we’re going to

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