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World's laziest CEO. CEO of NinjaPear. Ex-Founder of Proxycurl (10+M), Steven founded 5 other startups: Gom VPN, Kloudsec, SilvrBullet, NuMoney, and SharedHere.
Since we launched LinkDB, we have received a barrage of requests for a company profile dataset. We understand that pairing people with companies will help our customers understand questions like: 1. How many employees does a company have? 2. What is the makeup of roles in a company? It is
A few weeks ago, a student at the University of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) contacted me. The student represented a group of academics who needed to enrich a list of people with work experience and education history. The following article will share how I did this
Last week, we push out an update to the Company Profile API. In this update: * We updated the endpoint to return 404 status code when a request is made to scrape an invalid Professional Social Network company. * Added follower_count to the API endpoint * Revamped the parsing method to improve
I am very happy to share that we are scraping more fields in our Person Profile Endpoint in our Professional Social Network API. These fields are: 1. recommendations 2. similarly_named_profiles 3. activities 4. connection (count) 5. articles (posted by user) This update is now live and you can
In a blog post I written, I shared how I got a list of companies seeking to hire software engineers. The crux of the data scraping exercise was our Job Listing Endpoint. However, we found that the Job Listings Endpoint was inconsistent during testing. Job posts returned via our Job
Proxycurl API People Profile endpoint crawls public Professional Social Network Profiles. Not all Professional Social Network profiles, even if valid, have public profiles. In instances as such, our Professional Social Network People Profile Endpoint will return with a 404 status code. Today, we launched an update to our service to
Problem I got on a call with the CEO of a company that helps businesses recruit tech talents. Let's call this company TechTalentRecruitment. The perfect customer profile for TechTalentRecruitment is small and medium-sized companies that are hiring for software engineers. Getting a list of small and medium companies
So you are trying to scrape Professional Social Network profiles in bulk. The chances are that you are crawling the public profiles with a proxy (in a very inefficient manner, as discussed in my other post on building your own Professional Social Network Profile Scraper). If so, then you will
I want to close bigger deals by reaching decision-makers directly I am the founder of Nubela. I lead sales for Proxycurl, and I do this alone. So it is vital that whatever I do is leveraged and effective. Luckily, I can code. I figured that general emails do not get
We deployed three changes today to Proxycurl. 1. We have improved the Person Lookup endpoint from 30% accuracy to 89% accuracy. 2. We added a new endpoint for our Enterprise customers who make bulk profile crawls. It runs 60% faster and returns, "People also viewed" data. 3. Fixed
Steven, the Professional Social Network API you guys offer is excellent. But how do I begin to use the API if I do not even have the profiles? I get this question so often, so we decided to crawl every profile and put it into a Postgresql database. We call
Having built the early prototype for [Proxycurl API](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/Professional Social Network) which turns Professional Social Network profiles into JSON, I learnt a little bit about how one might be able to scrape public Professional Social Network profiles in scale. In this tutorial, I will share my
We launched an update to Proxycurl today, and it includes two new endpoints for Professional Social Network Jobs. The first endpoint is the Job Profile API endpoint. Like the existing People and Company Professional Social Network API endpoints, the Job Profile endpoint returns you structured data of a job given
We went live with V2 of our [Professional Social Network People Profile API](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/Professional Social Network) yesterday. V2 is an expansive update in two ways. A lot more data We heard your feedback, and we have upgraded our Professional Social Network Person Profile endpoint to return
Proxycurl API is a developer's tool. And the chances are that if you can code, you will have no problem scraping a website, unless it is Professional Social Network. It is a full-time job keeping up with Professional Social Network's bot detection and layout changes. Proxycurl
Automation, especially in digital marketing, has become an important progress feature. It can greatly reduce the time spent on menial work so that you can spend more time doing the things you'd rather be doing and just pass the simple work to the bot. Most of the time,
Professional Social Network is the most popular social media platform for people to meet one another in a professional setting. I recommend you to read our article, How To Automatically Track Professional Social Network Job Changes and How Salesforge.ai Integrates Rich Prospecting Data With ChatGPT To Automatically Personalize Emails,
Are you like me and you post on EDMW Hardwarezone forums, and end up spamming the refresh button in pursuit of validation for someone to quote/respond to you. Well, those days are over because now I am going to send you an email automatically when that happens. Or rather,
* Steven: I have something new to share * You: What is it? * Steven: I want to tell you that if you are bored in the wee hours, you can come to SharedHere and chat with anyone that is awake like you are * You: Wah, why is that possible? * Steven: Because we
With Proxycurl API, you can enrich Professional Social Network Profiles at one cent per profile, at scale. Since we introduced Proxycurl, the feedback has revolved around two issues: 1. It is too hard to scrape public Professional Social Network profiles 2. And that our corporate plans are too expensive I
The cadence of delivery. Last month, I dismissed the employment of a software developer who oversold himself during the interview phase. He turned out to be on the lowest rung of the software engineers in my company. Not being good enough is not a reason to be dismissed. But not
We learned drown-proofing as a trainee in the Naval Diving Unit. Throughout the training, we were drilled to remember three words - Stop; think; breathe. Whether above the water surface or 20 meters under the water, should a mishap occur -- Stop; think; breathe. To stop, think, and breathe is
The title is apt in these times. I experienced a database corruption, and I can't seem to find the backup for it. I can fix it by starting anew again, but if that is so, I might as well rebuild it because the previous codebase was an entire
In this series, I will begin writing my thoughts on startup news in Singapore/Asia. Here are the news today! With fresh funding, Snapask expands tech-driven learning across Asia [https://sharedhere.com/thread/view/o7jee6Sbz2wsrdRqacppTn] This post seems like a sponsored post or a PR piece that declared that Snapask
I just had the revenue carpet that I stood on, pulled out under me. It is sudden, but not unexpected. I started feeling exasperated, but over the evening, it turned into anger, then resolute. A resolution to not have such a situation happen again by which a product of mine
