Monthly Archives: February 2007

Wiki-world

Yesterday I listened to a podcast from a speech given by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The podcast was created last year (old material) but there were still many concepts that I found intriguing.
Some points I would like to highlight include:

With the open source and free license business model of wikipedia, it means [...]

Research: Company Information

When looking for company information such as history and events, the best resources I have found include:

Wikipedia - I try to always look at Wikipedia first as it usually is a great resource with many helpful links.
Business & Company Resource Center - This database is fantastic as it extensively covers the history and news coverage. [...]

Research: Research Publications

The need may arise to find certain research studies or publications. Sometimes a simple Google search can reveal a website in which you can find the study to download or view online. Yet, often these publications can not be uncovered by Google as they are hidden in analyst databases.
Databases and websites that [...]

They Sometimes Grow Up so Quickly.

I am amazed at how quickly a company can get “all grows up”. One company that I have been watching since its recent inception has just been jamming right along, switching up its business model, cooking up creative ideas and picking up the customers as it goes. I swear the ‘back of [...]

Giggles in the office.

Today is a big day because for the first time ever I have my own little log-in to Venture Source, one of the best databases ever. I am like a giddy school girl. Oh the data I will be able to view!

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Research: Librarian 24-7 Live Chat

I have been looking for two exact studies for a research project I have been working on (personal related project, not work related). I couldn’t find the studies available anywhere even though I knew the exact title, author and year published. Nothing… absolutely nothing. But then I somehow came across a faculty [...]

Conference Planning

My employing firm has our annual Limited Partner’s meeting coming up within the next month and I have had to help plan many aspects of it. Sitting in a conference this past week made me contemplate some suggestions that I should make sure are implemented in our upcoming conference. Some of my suggestions [...]

Research: Stock Information

In my quest (mentioned in previous blog) to create a research resource, I will make my first entry starting with the concept all finance people will need to use at some time, that of finding stock information.

Google Finance

Yahoo! Finance

When searching for stock information, I prefer Google finance. Google has implemented so many [...]