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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
What is Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool, and why is it useful? Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool counts employees during historical snapshots and provides a trend line dating as far back as the user wants, with the caveat that it's only accurate
When we mention lead generation, the single department that most closely relates to it most is sales and marketing. Lead generation is a huge headache for people in sales and marketing. There are many channels for finding potential prospects, but approaching quality prospects and getting good responses is the hard
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
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
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
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&
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
✏️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
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
If you tend to keep up with the tech or finance ecosystem, you've probably come across the term, FAANG. But what does it actually stand for, and how should you invest in FAANG stocks if you want exposure to big tech? We'll go straight into that.
Professional Social Network 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 Professional Social Network platform, so it can be used to search through a huge database of Professional Social Network profiles
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_
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
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
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