Category Archives: Private Company Research

E-commerce Landscape and Trends

Today in my Internet travels, I came across a great presentation from Josh Yang, a student at Harvard B-school. It’s about a year old but still great information on the e-commerce landscape. You can check it out below: E-commerce Landscape

Form D Free For All

Form D Free For All

Do business research for any length of time and you’ll likely be called upon to locate Form Ds. And as we bizologists like to say, why not find them for free? First of all, what is a Form D? Our

Free Email Address Verification

Quick Email Address Verification: The other day, I found myself in an interesting situation.  I wanted to get in touch with the VP of marketing of a local company and all I knew was that their company email addresses ended

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

How To Do Research On A Private Company

How To Do Research On A Private Company

We’ve talked before about how finding information on a private company is much more difficult than researching public companies. So today we thought we’d take an example and walk through some different ways you can track down information. I’m intrigued

Valuethiswebsite.com

Valuethiswebsite.com

As the title implies ValueThisWebsite.com is one of the multitude of valuation tools for ballparking the worth of a url.  Of course the creators, for whom English is apparently a second language, do not disclose their secret recipe for how

A Gift Horse From Inc.com

A Gift <strike>Horse</strike> From Inc.com

Because private company financial data is so tricky to uncover we’re always really excited, time and again, to mention any tool that helps us accomplish that task.  So what to do when you’re investigating how well a private company should

Social Media for Business Research

Social Media for Business Research

As more and more companies are using social media to connect with their customers and spread the word about their products, it makes sense  that as business researchers we need to keep these social sites on our radar. We wouldn’t

We Owe Forbes a Cocktail

We Owe Forbes a Cocktail

Business researchers are asked all the time to provide financial data on private companies, and as you can see here and here, we love any resource that helps us pin down those numbers.   Today we’re looking at one more resource