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How Cold Emailing Grew My B2B Startup To $100k MRR
Cold email has always been essential to the growth of Proxycurl. It's the main reason why we hit $100k MRR. Here's how we did it profitably...
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Profile Enrichment via Facebook & Twitter Comes to Proxycurl!
Hello and welcome to our end-of-August changelog! We've added a new feature to our Person Profile Endpoint - the ability to look anyone up by new methods. There are now THREE methods of input: * Professional Social Network_profile_url * facebook_profile_url * twitter_profile_url (And don'
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August 2023: New Reverse Contact Number Lookup API & More!
Proxycurl's August 2023 updates are here! Featuring a new endpoint, improvements to existing endpoints, and LinkDB public pricing! Plus a brand-new product launch in case you haven't already seen it! LinkDB pricing is now public We've revealed our LinkDB pricing to the public -
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How To Find Anyone With An Advanced Professional Social Network People Search
So, you want to search for people on Professional Social Network. In this article, I will show you step-by-step multiple ways to find a specific person or a broad list of people.
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What's Proxycurl's Refund Policy?
Proxycurl API In general, we will refund you if you accidentally purchase credits and spend at most 10 of them. Refunds are granted once per customer. There are three scenarios in which a refund will be provided: 1. A new order has been made (e.g. you bought too many
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Use Proxycurl's APIs Within Google Sheets: Introducing Sapiengraph!
Have you ever wanted to integrate Proxycurl's APIs into your spreadsheet data? Or maybe you don't code - you prefer working within Google Sheets using familiar formulas rather than writing Python scripts. Introducing Sapiengraph: Proxycurl's new offering for B2B data directly inside Google Sheets!
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How Long Can a Search Regex Be?
There is not a maximum length for individual parameters of a search query; rather, your entire query must be at most 4094 characters.
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Why Do Employee or Student Counts from our API Endpoint Differ from Professional Social Network's Data?
1. Our Employee/Student Listing API endpoint relies on LinkDB, a database that exclusively gathers public Professional Social Network profiles. Consequently, the data we can provide is only as comprehensive as the content available in LinkDB. 2. Professional Social Network's specific heuristics for associating an individual with their
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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&
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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
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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
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