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by mmarian 637 days ago
The sales process is the same as with any other b2b product. You need to figure out its value and customers.

And make sure you're confident about the value. For example, in many workflows having only 10% coverage of the population makes the data useless.

I wouldn't worry about the licensing details as a startup. It won't matter until you can afford lawyers and reputational damage for pursuing someone who's broken the license.

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The articles covering this topic have shown deals where various forms of media were purchased at surprising rates.

I’m not looking to start a company around this, my source of media and data are essentially a byproduct of my actual business. Ideally I’d like to find a broker or marketplace that I can feed it to.