Monthly Archives: July 2012
Three Key Business Plan Resources
People often conduct business research with the intent of using it to inform a business plan. So where should you visit on the interwebs to find a good business plan how-to? 1. The United States Small Business Administration has a
Cycling for Libraries, Day 2 & 3
As most of you know, bizologie co-founder April Kessler and Librarian Lifestyle’s Karen Holt are participating in Cycling for Libraries where they’ll be riding with 107 librarians from 26 countries through the Baltics. Karen & April will be posting pictures
Knoema: Build & Explore Datasets
Earlier this month we had the opportunity to attend the “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” presentation at the Special Libraries Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago. One site we loved was Knoema. Knoema lets you explore, build and share datasets. They
Two Free Tools to Play with Big Data
The Pew Internet & American Life project opened a recent report on the future of big data with the following line: “We swim in a sea of data…and the sea level is rising rapidly.” Just how quickly are humans creating
5 Free Resources for Venture Capital & Private Equity Research
There are any number of subscription databases for researching venture capital and private equity, but as you know, our goal at bizologie is to help you find free information. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of 5 of our
Introducing Our First Infographic: Researching Private Companies
Since the world has become obsessed with infographics, we decided to try building one ourselves. There are several different services you can use and after reading about them here, we decided to give Piktochart a try. Take a look and
Biking in Style
This week we’re headed to Cycling for Libraries and of course, the first thing we did to prepare for the ride was to find the cutest cycling clothes and accessories around. Here are some of our favorites. April’s Picks (aka Not being
Enchanted at SLA 2012
Guy Kawasaki was the keynote speaker at the SLA 2012 conference in Chicago this week. Guy is the former chief evangelist of Apple — he was one of the original marketers of the Macintosh. He is a venture capitalist and
bizologie Favorite Tools: Retirement Planning
Dreaming of retiring to that nice condo at the beach? Or maybe you’ll use some of those golden years traveling the globe. Either way, it’s time to start planning. Well, it was probably time to start planning as soon as
A Go-to for Researching the Chinese Travel Market
When I’m conducting my research, i.e. scampering on the interwebs, sometimes a bizologie-related site takes me to another page, and another, and then I’ve suddenly encountered a new entry-worthy resource. For example, last week I wrote on Hospitality Net, and
