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How to Build a LinkedIn Data Scraper
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How to Build a LinkedIn Data Scraper

So you want to scrape LinkedIn for data. Maybe you're a dev looking to automate your next remote job search, maybe you're a hiring manager trying to find the right candidate, or maybe you're an investor trying to figure out who exactly is joining

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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

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

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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

Ins & Outs of Demographic Data & Segmentation to Enrich Business
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Ins & Outs of Demographic Data & Segmentation to Enrich Business

To connect with 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 need to understand their customers to create and deliver the right products and services. One way to do that

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

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

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

Top 10 Best B2B Databases Providers & Softwares
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Top 10 Best B2B Databases Providers & Softwares

B2B contact databases are still one of the fastest ways to build pipeline. But the quality gap between providers is massive, and if you pick the wrong one, you do not just waste money, you waste reps. 1. Proxycurl Proxycurl was known for its APIs for data-driven applications, enriching person

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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

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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

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

LinkedIn contains a ridiculous amount of useful professional data. If you are trying to figure out what kinds of LinkedIn data actually exist, what can be public, and what teams usually try to extract for sales, recruiting, enrichment, or research, this is the practical list. r/dataanalysis u/Timely_Note_

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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

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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

How to fetch `geo_id` parameter for the Job API?
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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 a matching geo_id for a given region you want to target. Note: Proxycurl API has been sunset. I built