Category: Business, Investing & Finance

• FindtheBest Venture Capital
• Startup Valuation Advice – Mark Suster May 2011
• Fundraising 101 Checklist – Walker
• Pitching a VC – Mark Suster Advice
• How VC’s Evaluate Startups – Thomvest Ventures
• VC Experts
• Seed Stage Valuation Guide – Jordan Cooper
• Alternate Funding Ideas – Business Inside

• List of Startup Incubators
• FindTheBest Incubators
• A Quora list of Incubators
• Jobs in Startups
• Lunch with Entrepreneurs
• Techcofounder – find a technical cofounder
• Founder Dating – find a cofounder

• Kickstarter – crowdfunding
• Indiegogo – crowdfunding
• Rock The Post – crowd funding
• RocketHub – crowd funding, partner with A&E
• Appbackr – crowd funding for mobile apps
• Tindle – crowd funding for makers to sell their hardware
• Quirky – shared social inventor community

 

Crowdfunding Tips / Advice

• Making an iPhone tripod & stand (Glif)
• Publishing a book (Art Space Tokyo)

• Venture Hacks Angel List – raise money with angel investors
• AngelList – connecting startups and angels
• Seed-Db – database of seed accelerators and their companies
• Gust – Platform for Startup Funding
• Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain
• Types of Angel Financing
• Angel Financing Tips and here

• ShareDesk – find a workspace in your city
• Coworkify – find a workspace in your city
• NextSpace – coworking spaces across California
• FoundersDen – San Francisco workspace
• OpenDesks – find workspace/meeting places
• SandBoxSuites – SF Bay Area shared workspace
• RocketSpace – SF Bay Area shared workspace
• HackerDojo – community center in Mountain View

• 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

• Eurostat – European Statistics
• EEA – European Environment Agency
• OECD Stat Extracts
• United Nations Statistics
• The World Bank – finance
• International Monetary Fund – data and stats
• CIA World Factbook

• Amazon AWS – public crawl
• StartupCompass – benchmark your core business metrics

U.S. State/Federal Open Data

• List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
• Building Healthcare.gov
• FedStats – data from 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• Small Business Administration – Data – API here
• Federal Reserve – U.S. Industrial production data
• SunLight Labs – Open U.S. Federal and State data
• Data.gov – Open U.S. Federal data
• PewResearch Center – Internet & American Life
• Data.ca.gov – Open California data
• TexasConnect – Open Texas data
• SanFrancisco – Open San Francisco data
• New York City – Open NY data

Other Governments Open Data

• List of open government/country data sites – Start Here
• Data.UN – open United Nations Data
• DataPortal – Open data for the E.U.
• OpenData.gc – Open Canadian data
• Data.gov.UK – Open UK data
• ChineseGovt – Open China data
• DataOne – Open HongKong data
• Datos.gov – Open Columbian data
• Datos.gob.es – Open Spanish data
• Data.norge.nos – Open Norway data
• OpenAid – Open Swedish data
• OpenGovData.ru – Open Russian data

• Clipular – Camera for the web/great research clippings
• Business Research LaunchPad – start here

• Amazon Mechanical Turk – set up any task and get answers
• Elance – find/hire freelancers
• SkillsHive – become a/hire freelancer online
• Odesk – hire low-cost international engineering talent
• Freelancer – outsourcing for small business
• VWorker – find/hire freelancers
• GroupTalent – developers and designers on demand