Just realized this only covers company search, although the same issue is there for people search:

http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/1250638

Interestingly it looks like people search gets hit much more often than company search which is the opposite of what I would have guessed.

I wonder how long it's going to take for someone to make a high-score table of the most searched founders and startups ;-)

here, have the first step:

curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/1250638 | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12

Likely much faster ways of going through this but to expand on your thought:

#!/bin/bash

     for (( i=1; $i < 1250646; i++))

     do

                curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/$i | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12 >> people.txt

     done

If anyone wants to hack on this together, shoot me an email (email in my profile) I'm thinking of some...interesting uses for the data.