a single source, nothing corroborates it
Sell the data you can gather at volume
A list that buyers would otherwise assemble by hand is a product, delivered on a schedule so they pay every month rather than once. Prove you can actually collect the raw material at volume before paying anyone to help scale it, because the gathering is where these break.
The method
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Package research as a subscription that arrives on a schedule, so buyers pay monthly for a list they would otherwise assemble by hand.
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Prove you can gather the raw material at volume before you pay anyone to help scale a directory.
What it returned
GrowthList sells monthly reports containing contacts at companies that have just raised money.
Screenshots needed read-online preview links, which barely exist for inbox-only publications, so capturing one edition each meant subscribing to hundreds of newsletters and waiting for them to arrive. The pipeline could not be outsourced.
Sources
- Discontinuing Email Newsletter Discovery - Rob HopeRob Hope · robhope.com · 2. You cannot outsource without good data to input · 2021-09-20
- Data as a Service: Use Cases, Data Accuracy, Data TrustsDru Riley · trends.vc · What are 7 examples of Data as a Service companies? · 2023-06-28
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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