Abdullah Yahya

• 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

• SharedDesks – Coworking and Office Space
• Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
• Grasshopper – virtual phone system
• Hoiio – business communications apps
• Ringio – cloud phone system
• ActivePBX – cloud unified phone system
• Freedom Voice and FreedomIQ – $3.95 800 #’s, hosted VoIP telephony
• InDinero – easy business finance software
• ZenPayroll – delightful employee payroll software
• Freshbooks – cloud accounting and invoicing
• Autotax – eFile IRS 1099 forms
• Expensify – billing, expenses, receipts
• BambooHR – Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc.
• Harvest – online time tracking
• Xobni – Outlook plugin to search
• QuoteRoller – create, deliver and negotiate proposals online
• WordsRU – proofreading and editing service

• JobVite – recruiting software, applicant tracking
• Zoho Recruit – applicant tracking
• Resumator – applicant tracking and social recruiting
• RecruiterBox – recruitment software, applicant tracking
• ActiveInterview – Video interviewing
• JobPage – applicant tracking and social recruiting
• Zartis – social recruiting
• HiringThing -online recruiting
• GroupTalent – hire short term help/or freelance
• MasterBranch – show off your skills
• VidCruiter – video interview software
• LinkedIn – the uber connector

• Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site
• GetSatisfaction – conversations between companies / customers
• Triibe – incentive-based customer service
• Zendesk – web help software
• Zopim – real time customer support/live chat
• HelpScout – simple setup, easy integration, help desk software
• Desk – from Salesforce, easy and simple; email/social/chat/phone
• SnapEngage – live chat integrates with your apps
• Freshdesk – completely unique never seen before web help software
• Ideaffect – customer feedback, vote, comment, manage
• Olark – live customer chat and customer loyalty
• LiveChat – live customer chat, archives of conversations
• Assistly – Support customers by Web, email, chat, and social networks
• Vision Helpdesk – Support for multiple companies from one place
• OneDesk – ideation to delivery and support issues, tickets, tasks
• HappyFox – collate, categorize and respond to all requests
• CustomerSure –  online customer service, feedback into retention
• HelpSpot – Helpdesk software
• Webengage – website survey, feedback and notification tool
• SupportBee – help customers via email, robust ticketing