- LendingClub – stats on funding and loans
- Prosper – Prosper funding data/API
- BBYOpen – Best Buy open product data/API
- EbayOdata – Ebay open data/API
- Yelp Academic Dataset – access 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students
- Reuters/Thompson – API
- Yahoo – data for students/academics
- Uber – car cost of ownership
- Terapeak – ebay and Amazon data
Public or University library Resources:
- Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Research
- Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research (find Trade Associations)
- Harris InfoSource Business Directory
- Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data
Market Research Resources Online
- FindTheCompany – corporate and organization data
- IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base
- Crunchbase – tech company/people database
- Edsurge – educational software
- Alexa – competitive website info
- SimilarWeb – discover traffic for any web site
- Silicon Valley Bank Analytics
- Compete – see competitive website traffic
- ChangeDetection – know when any web page changes
- SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms
- MarketReseach.com – Retailer of private market research reports
- ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data
- Thomas – find any company in any industry
- BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios
- SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Encyclopedia of Associations
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- ESRI– Has free demographic data available by zip code
- EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address
- Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas
- Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys
- International Trade Statistics –
- NVCA – venture capital industry data
- PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data
- Chemical Industry data
- FDA News – medical device and drug data/news
- Asymco – great market intelligence blog