Two public directories that are quietly great B2B lead sources

Short summary

The article presents two public directories as underrated B2B lead sources: the Y Combinator startup directory (funded companies with batch, industry, team size, and hiring status) and podcast RSS feeds (owner email fields with episode freshness signals). It outlines a generalizable pattern: find curated directories, check freshness fields, follow entities to their own properties for contact data, and report misses honestly. Both scrapers are available on Apify under the Scrapemint account, priced per result.

• •YC startup directory provides prefiltered funded-company leads with team size, batch, and hiring status
• •Podcast RSS feeds expose owner email fields plus last-episode dates for freshness-filtered outreach
• •Generalizable pattern: curate from directories, check freshness, follow to entity properties for contact data, report misses honestly

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