FestivalPass Scraped 8,000 Events to Populate Its Platform Database
Ed Vincent · Festival Version of ClassPass Targeting $500k Seed, 1000's of Consumers, 100's of Events · Jun 11, 2020 · at 21:12
Ed Vincent, founder of live event subscription service FestivalPass, explains his marketplace supply aggregation and SEO strategy to Nathan Latka.
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“We did scrape about 8000 events that we actually have in our database, and we actually produce on our platform.”
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