Market research sources and links
When you starting a new business you need to find your customer and solve his pain and you need also to invest your time in research to see if your business fits into the market.
(source: fastf.com)
Priority tasks before starting your business
- Identify your customer
- Identify market segment / niches
- Take a look and research macroeconomic changes, demographic changes, psychographic changes, technical changes, societal changes, political changes and governament/regulatory chanegs
Useful links that can help you in your research
- https://www.crunchbase.com/ (Crunchbase – tech company database)
- https://www.findthecompany.com/ (Find the company)
- https://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/nope-android-doesnt-represent-80-percent-of-the-smartphone-market/ (iOS vs Android installed base)
- https://lendedu.com/blog/home-equity-line-of-credit/ (home equity lines of credit – HELOCs)
- https://www.edsurge.com/ (The best companies in education)
- https://www.alexa.com/ (Competitive web info)
- https://www.similarweb.com/ (Measure the web)
- https://www.compete.com/ (Optimize your digital marketing)
- https://www.changedetection.com/ (Know when webpage changes)
- https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml (Research on public US firms)
- https://www.marketresearch.com/ (Business Intelligence research)
- https://www.hoovers.com/ (Company information)
- https://www.thomasnet.com/ (Find suppliers)
- https://bizstats.com/ (Free business statistics)
- https://www.sbdcnet.org/ (Small business help)
- https://www.census.gov/ (US bureau of census – trends)
- https://www.esri.com/ (Demographic data available by zipcode)
- https://www.census.gov/easystats/ (Demographic statistics)
- https://www.claritas.com/ (https://www.nielsen.com/) (Reports)
- https://www.standardandpoors.com/ (Standard and Poors)
- https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its_e.htm (International trade statistics)
- https://www.nvca.org/ (National Venture Capital Assosiation)
- https://www.pwcmoneytree.com (PWV Money Tree)
- https://www.icis.com/ (Chemical industry data)
- https://www.fdanews.com/ (Pharmaceutical and Medical news)
- https://www.asymco.com/ (Market intelligence blog)
- https://www.lendingclub.com/ (Personal loans)
- https://www.prosper.com/ (Personal loans and money investing)
- https://bbyopen.com/ (Best buy open product data)
- https://www.yelp.com/academic_dataset (Yelp’s academic dataset)
- https://thomsonreuters.com/ (Reuters Thompson predictions)
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