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Online Investigatory Resources |
- Best
Sites To Find Private Company Data: Companies
Online (a searchable database of company profiles on 100,000
public and private companies); Corptech
(a searchable database of company profiles on 50,000 public and
private high tech companies); Hoover's
Online (10,000 company descriptions; 2500 detailed profiles);
Corporate
Information (an extensive directory of links for info on U.S.
and foreign companies); CorpOnline
(a directory of corporate information resources maintained by Professor
Larry Tomassini); Yahoo!
Company News; NetDetective
(special software that scours the net to find info); NorthernLight
(excellent for searching business subjects!... includes information
from premium resources, as well as books, magazines, databases, and
news wires) ); Knowx.com
(charges a fee but can get pretty much anything); VCBuzz
(funding history for most venture funded companies); LocalBusiness.com
(search for local business news in over 50 markets - no longer working?);
- Public
Corporate Data: Dow
Jones Interactive Publishing (includes financial profiles, article
searches, quotes and market data, and a travel section); The
SEC EDGAR Database (official archive of SEC filings for US publicly
traded companies); FreeEdgar
(SEC Filings - better than the official archives); SEC
Info.com (has some innovative features); Federal
Filings Online; Global Securities
Information (high-end customized SEC search and analysis services);
NASDAQ/AMEX; Hoover's
Online (10,000 company descriptions; 2500 detailed profiles);
Annual
Reports Library; Annual
Report Service; Standard
& Poor's Retail Investor Services; Moody's
Investors Service; A.M. Best;
CompanySleuth
(emailed reports on publicly held companies); SEC.gov;
Annual Report Service;
- Directories
of Corporate Web Sites: GSPublic
Company Websites (an directory of the web sites of all publicly
held companies); Directory
of links to US and foreign companies;
- Business
Research Links Directories: Brint
Business Research Portal; CEO
Express (extensive links page); Tanned
Feet ("The Entreprenuer's Help Page" pretty much
all the links you need to find whatever... business strategy, legal,
financial, marketing, PR, HR, mpowers@tannedfeet.com, vpascucci@tannedfeet.com);
All Business (credit
checks, find a lawyer, incorporate online, corporate name search,
a
great links page!, legal
forms, law
firm newsletters, litigation
consultants and resources, resources
for inhouse counsel, legal
technology, legal
and due diligence research, sitemap);
InfoToday - (includes
the personal links pages of top internet search professionals in the
areas of global
business, primary
research, mergers
& acquisitions, news,
writing,
health
& medicine, investment,
business,
entrepreneurial
research, and legal);
- General
Business Information: The
Thomas Register (The leading directory of American manufacturing companies);
Dun and Bradstreet;
Yahoo! Company News; Industry
Link (a directory of resources and websites organized by industrial
category); ProRequest Direct
(summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in
full text); BizTech
Research Library & Searchable Knowledge Map (access to hundreds
of full-text articles & papers, magazines & journals, case studies
and tools, and thousands of other resources); CNN
Financial Network; CNNfn
Stock Quotes; WSRN
(SEC documents, company reports and press releases on over 16,000
companies); StreetNet (Basic
research reports and quotes); PRNewswire;
Businesswire; The
Profound News database (market reports, briefs, and news databases);
WSRN.com (Wall Street Research Net,
for researching companies and the stock market - part of the internet.com
family of web sites); ZDNet
- Tech Company Product Search;
- Trade
Associations: American
Society of Association Executives (links to over 1,200 association
sites); Greater Washington Society
of Association Executives; Chicago
Society of Association Executives (includes a membership directory);
Searchable Directory
of Association Web sites;
- Non-Profits
&Government: Guidestar
(Information about the finances and operations of over 850,000 U.S.
nonprofit organizations); GovBizSearch.com (Searchable Yahoo style
directory of links for government and business sites).
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| Business
Research Portals and Directories |
- Worldclass Supersite
- Link-by-link commentary over 1000 business related sites from 70
countries. Mike Kuiack, Barbie Wu Mike Kuiack & Associates' Worldclass
802-1200 Alberni St. Vancouver, Canada V6E 2A6 Tel. 604-689-7107 mkuiack@direct.ca
- BPubs.com - Searchable "Yahoo"
style directory of links... but linked only to content pages... smatthews@bpubs.com
- Brint.com - Searchable
directory of links, newsletter
(subscribe@brint.com), P.O. Box 35140 Syracuse New York 13235, U.S.A.
(315) 637-5539, permissions@brint.com, media@brint.com, press@brint.com,
editors@brint.com, inquiry@brint.com
- Business.com - Searchable
"Yahoo" style directory of links
- BusinessTown.com
- Just an excellent resource with hundreds of well organized and well
thought out content pages... though its really best suited to small
business needs as opposed to the needs of larger enterprises. webmaster@businesstown.com
- Chamberbiz.com -
Searchable "Yahoo" style directory of links sponsored by
the US Chamber of Commerce. Includes downloadable documents and lots
of information on how to start a business. 1615 H Street NW, Suite
#457 - Washington, DC 20062-2000 Phone: 1-888-948-1429,
- BusinessJeeves.com - A search engine
that accepts queries in the form of questions.
- All Biz.com Network - Links to news, information,
reference, employment opportunities, etc.
- FastCeo - Searchable directory
of links. Includes sections Business&Res. News&Info, Office Tools,
Shopping, Career, Show Biz, Music, Software, Home, Research, Webmasters,
Internet, Directories, Finance, Net Services, CycleQuotes, A/V, Games,
Family Fun, Zines,
- QuickMBA.com - Searchable "Yahoo"
style directory of links... has internal site search and well as a
search field for Business.com
- Wall Street Executive Library
- Interesting directory of useful links... not all that many of the
links are business sites... but useful for general research.
- Researcha.com - An on-line community
for information professionals (people whose primary responsibility
is the collection, management and dissemination of information) includes
links, vendor directory, researcher directory, etc. info@researcha.com
- BetterManagement.com -
"Performance Management Information" Aggregates content
from over 200 leading organizations including Harvard Business School
Working Knowledge, The McKinsey Quarterly, and University of Pennsylvania's
Knowledge@Wharton. Topic areas include: Scorecard, Cost Management,
Planning and Budgeting, Value Chain, Business Intelligence, CRM, Process
Management, Six Sigma, Sales / Marketing, Analytics, Enterprise Management,
Collaborative Strategies, Government, Excellence. 16100 N.W. Cornell
Road Suite 200 Beaverton, Oregon 97006, 503.531.5600, concierge@bettermanagement.com
- ManagementFirst.com - Contains
over 35,000 articles from more than 100 management journals, complete
with full text archives back to 1994. Contains over 138,000 independent
reviews of articles taken from the world’s leading management publications,
covering the major management disciplines. (EmeraldInsight
sponsors the site and publishes the world's widest range of management
and library & information services journals) 60/62 Toller Lane Bradford
England BD8 9BY tel. +44 (0)1274 777700 fax. +44 (0)1274 785200 e-mail:
managementfirst@emeraldinsight.com,
- Ravenwerks - Creative approaches
to solving business problems. Over 40 practical articles organized
into the topics of Leadership, Teamwork, Best Practices, Marketing,
Customer Service and Technology. Newsletter, links,
Paula Gamonal B.A. Mass Communications paula@ravenwerks.com John F.
Williams M.B.A. International Business jfw@ravenwerks.com
- Krislyn's Strictly Business Sites
- A Yahoo style directory of business links. listing@krislyn.com
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Magazines and Newspapers |
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| International
Trade |
- General
Sites:
Asia Business Connection (includes ads
for sourcing or selling); University
of Michigan International Business Resources on the WWW (an excellent
collection of international trade related links); Global
Trade Center (A wealth of information about embassies, trade law,
trade statistics, shipping, travel, and more);
- Export
Assitance: US
Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (country
and regional information for American exporters); Virtual
International Business and Economic Sources (over 1,300 links
to free Internet sources of international business and economic information);
http://www.exporthotline.com;
- Targeted
Sites: Netherlands Foreign Investment
Agency; Venture Web (for
those seeking Japanese contacts for exporting, importing, or joint
corporate ventures. Included are documents describing Japanese cultural
and business practices); The Irish
Trade Web; NewAsia-singapore
(jointly developed by Newsweek and Singapore); The
Polish Home Page; Czech Ministry
of Foreign Affairs; The American
Chamber of Commerce in Japan; The
Thailand Industrial Directory;
- Miscellaneous
Sites:
The Electronic Embassy (information
on all of the Foreign Embassies of Washington D.C.); Info
Site on the University of Hawaii College of Business Administration
China and Japan focused MBA program; AT&T Language Line Service
(call 1-800-628-8486 for personal, over the phone interpretation services,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week);
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| Business
Databases |
- Thomas Register - More
than 170,000 manufacturers with extensive company and product information.
Thomas Regional
Directory
- Thomas Register of European Manufacturers
- More than 185,000 manufacturers with extensive company and product
information.
- WAND - "The World's Largest Directory
of Products and Services," WAND is an advanced trade directory with
listings of over 60,000 products and services. Available in 16 languages,
this service connects buyers and sellers from nearly 1 million companies
and 165 countries. You can search by product catagory, company name,
general product or service categories, or by 6-diget HS code. There's
also a database of tradeshow listings, global news, country information,
and check out the information about listing yourself as a buyer or
seller.
- JVSeek.com - Joint Venture
Search Engine. You can search for joint venture opportunities in Asia,
America, Africa and Europe. Projects from "$250,000 to $1 billion".
Its pretty good... and its free. They also have a free newsletter.
jvseek@gpmn.com Their parent site GPMN.com
is also a good source for potential business opportunities.
- Websters Online - Over 1,000,000
industrial and commercial products, services and brand names. Businesses
are listed with company profile, including address, toll-free numbers,
fax number, SIC Codes, NAICS Codes, products, brand names and web
URL. Searchable by SIC codes (Federal Standard Industrial Classification
Codes), NAICS Codes (North American Industrial Classification system),
product or service, brand name, enter city, state/province, and country.
You can access a list of SIC and NAIC codes on the site.
- Guide to Manufacturers
- A free guide to over 440,000 US manufacturers by the oldest and
largest publisher of state manufacturers directories. You can can
search for manufactures by product or service (in individual states
or the entire U.S.)
- Harris Info - Contains information
on more than 600,000 U.S. businesses (focusing on manufacturing, high-tec
and electronics). Basically lead types of info (includes branch and
headquarters locations). You can buy the info in small sips online
(mailing address, telemarketing information and full profiles with
35 information fields). Well worth the cost if you are approaching
a company without a referal.
- American Express B2B Directory
- Information on over 500,000 U.S. businesses and services. You can
search by company name, industry category, SIC code, by location and
a level of data capture.
- World Chambers - World
wide chambers of commerce. You can search by continent or country
for trade information and chambers of commerce.
- Risk Management Library
- Over 19,000 risk management and insurance resources. The Library
covers topics such as insurance, laws and regulations, environmental
engineering, and many other subjects. The newest category is Disasters,
with topics on agriculture, alerts, animals, biochem, bomb threats,
dam safety, counter-terrorism, etc.
- Infospace - A good electronic
yellow httpand white pages (with reverse lookup - find out who is
attached to a phone number)
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- Accountants: Deloitte &
Touche Online; Ernst & Young;
KPMG; PriceWaterhouseCoopers;
CPAdirectory.com;
- American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants - American Institute of Certified Public
Accounts, membership association. American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036-8775
tel. 212/596-6200 fax 212/596-6213, commite@aicpa.org, pcps@aicpa.org,
memsat@aicpa.org
- American Association
of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants - An association
of professionals jointly qualified as attorney and CPA (only about
three percent are dually qualified in both professions). links,
24196 Alicia Parkway, Suite K, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, 1-888-ATTY-CPA
- Taxes and Accounting: The
Official IRS Web Site (including all forms); Tax
and Accounting Sites Directory;
- Consumer Price Index: Consumer
Price Index;
- Law Links
- Lawyers and Legal
- Law: Law.com
(newsletters, CLE, general resources, jobs);
LawGuru; Prairielaw.com;
Law.com (newsletters, CLE, general
resources, jobs); USLaw.com;
LoisLaw (robotic searches);
Law Library Resource Exchange
(reviews of legal sites and databases); TheLaw.com;
MyCounsel;
American Legal Net
(subscription site for litigators); Hieros
Gamos (internation law portal); USCourts.gov;
- Legal Directories and Research: Findlaw
(a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law); Cornell
Law School; (a substantial on-line compilation of the
text of U.S. Federal, State and local laws and just about anything
else related to the law); WashLaw
Web (great directory of links maintained by Washburn Univ!);
Brief Reporter
(search and download for a fee legal briefs from actual court
cases); Internet Legal Resource Guide
(links to 4,000 legal sites and legal forms); Gigalaw;
BusinessLaw.gov (acts
as a gateway to federal, state and local information... for example
you can quickly check zoning codes for your local area); Mishpat.net;
Prairielaw; Law
Library Resource Exchange (reviews of legal sites and databases);
Lectric Law Library (search
federal and other laws); TheCRE.com
(Center for Regulatory Effectiveness is a a nationally recognized
clearinghouse for methods to improve the federal regulatory process
and also maintains FedLaw
a great place for researching federal laws); Law
Research (lots of good research links); allLaw.com
(a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law with free forms);
- More Legal Research Sites: Law
and Politics Internet Guide (internet related law); Univeristy
of Texas Law School (a nice stop stop shopping search page
to find online text of pretty much any law); LexisNexis
(low cost small firm version
of Lexis); LLRX (Law Library
Resource Xchange); Northern California
Association of Law Libraries (internet
research links, California
legal research links); The
Virtual Chase (legal research site);
- Find a Lawyer: Martindale-Hubbell
(Lawyer Locator);
West's Find a Lawyer Legal Directory;
(Findlaw version);
eLawForum (an online auction
enabling corporations to find legal services); LawInfo
(legal referal agency);
- Specialities: ecommerceattorney;
E-commerceLawSource.com
(links section);
TechLawJournal; CasinoLaw;
InternetLawyer; LawDog.com
(collections matters); InterNet
Bankruptcy Library (bankruptcy information for bankruptcy
professionals); HealthLawyersAssn;
wrightslaw (law relating
to special education rights for learning disabled children); BreakYourNonCompete.com;
AAML (American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers);
- Class Actions: ClassActionAmerica
(info about all class action suits); Securities
Class Action Clearinghouse (BigClassAction (helps consumers
find help in launching class action lw suits... see related sites
WorldJustice, WorldExpose)
- Law Office Automation: Lawyerware
(legal software); ABA
Legal Technology Resource Center links page; Law
Office Computing Online; Law
Technology News;
- Continuing Legal Education: LegalSpan;
- Subscription Legal Sites: LawGuru.com
(legal forms and over 35,000 legal questions and answers); Nolo.com
(strong on immagration law); FindLegalHelp.org
(ABA site with online directory of probono resources across the
country);
- Internet Legal Rights: JohnDoes.org
(offers legal support to anonymous internet posters being sued
for defamation... see also The American Civil Liberties Union,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Center for Democracy and Technology, the Liberty Project see also
article
1, article
2); Gigalaw (compilation
of internet related law and legal cases); CyberSecuritiesLaw
(tracks internet law suits including suites against anonymous
posters); Stanford's Cyberlaw Clinic (helps defend small domain
name owners from domain name hijacking by wealthy corporations
1-650-723-8773, stanfordcyberlawclinic@yahoo.com);
- Online Contracting: dicarta;
eplaced; Membership
Agreements; Bolero.net;
- Legal Documents: MyTechnologyLawyer.com
(online legal services including agreements, Scott
Draughon, Esq., admin@MyTechnologyLawyer.com, support@MyTechnologyLawyer.com
904.358.3777); Internet Legal Resource
Guide (links to 4,000 legal sites and legal forms); LawCommerce.com
(agreement
list); Nolo Press (do it
yourself legal info and tools); legalopinion.com
(info@legalopinion.com Canada 250-763-5560, Seattle 206-652-3390);
Contract Store (international
and domestic business contracts); UrgentBusinessForms;
Contract Edge, (Legal
Contracts for IT Firms), LegalIndustry.about.com
(links to sites with free legal forms); lawinfo.com
(a legal yahoo with free legal forms); allLaw.com
(a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law with free forms); Findlaw;
WebLawResources
(software development and other contact packages);
- Due Diligence Checklists:
CPI
Due Diligence Checklists;
- Strategic Partnering
Tools: The
Corporate Partnering Institute;
- Corporate Legal Fee
Guidelines: The
Corporate Partnering Institute Legal Fee Guidelines for Key Partnering
and Acquistion Agreements;
- Patent Searches,
Trademarks & Copyrights:
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