Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?

Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase? by altdataseller on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:43AM (#40453476)

Crunchbase has a data advantage because its parent conpany Techcrunch gets a lot of intel on startup funding.

>> If not, would you use one if I built it? I'm wondering how one might collect the data for just one category (to start)

If someone had a very good idea on how to collect that idea, they probably would be building it themselves….

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Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase? by robinyapockets on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:28AM (#40453876)

Fair point. You'd probably have to have a combination of initial data load + continuous web-scraping and crowdsourcing. Perhaps it's enough to start with a celebratory page for founders to fill out

Curious, have you used Crunchbase (premium), and if so, what's bothered you the most?

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Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase? by altdataseller on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:42AM (#40454001)

Ive used a less expensive plan years ago. The thing that bothered me the most was that they limited exports to 1000 or something unless you upgraded

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Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase? by robinyapockets on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:52AM (#40454090)

Were you trying to expert to Excel? If so, was it mainly to sort, filter, tag, etc?

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