Do these people know that you are selling their data? I would say that at worst you are breaking some law and at best they are each entitled to a cut of the money you are making.
Given that you are charging for Thisbe information then I am assuming it's not publicly available. And if it's not publicly available then you should need their permission to use it and especially to sell it.
As a 5-year tech journalist (liam@rudebaguette.com), let me just say: you're not the first person to sell my (our other journalist) emails, and this will be about as effective as every other journalist listserv. That is, not.
You want a story? Be interesting. Journalists aren't craving stories, they're craving interesting. We'd rather write 9 articles about Uber's new CEO than write 8 articles about Uber's new CEO and one boring article about your boring marketplace for freelance labor.
Be interesting. Press is free.
@petecodes It was great! Gained a lot of customers, tons of feedback. None paid yet, but we're close. Just refining our business offering. Haven't forgotten our agreement ;)
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I hope these people have a very good spam algorithm.
On the other side, you either doing it right or you don't do it at all. And this is the freakingly wrong way to do it. Starting with the claim of 18 countries.
Say, you are in states. Why would you need somebody from India?
Or you are at RE market, do you need an IoT journalist?
@ipstas (sigh), you know Indians can buy products sold in the US, right? Crazy, i know! Also, turns out there are quite a few people in India. Astounding! Maybe they like buying stuff/telling their friends? Maybe getting more press coverage isn't a bad thing for a startup?
Plus, how is an email coming from Joe Bloggs, who has bought this, any different to anyone else pitching?
Oh and 230 Product Hunters appear to disagree with you.
@rviolleau thanks :) contacts collected between 22nd july and 8th of august. Not sure what you mean by 'active' ? You get the full 100 contacts with all info if that is what you mean
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@petecodes Thanks Pete! By active, I mean that emails are reaching their target and the people on the list are still working in these companies.
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