Category Archives: research


PC Gaining Television Audience

I sold my television over two years ago, preferring to watch all video content on my computer, personally considering the computer sufficient for my media consumption needs. Within the past 3 months I moved in with a friend who happened to own a television but without cable access; its sole purpose being for guitar [...]

Women Blogger Research

I subscribe to the Ken Radio newsletter. He often provides tidbits of information that I find interesting, with this last newsletter being no exception as it was concerning the demographic of the woman blogger. I couldn’t find this content on his site (perhaps it was just in his newsletter?!) so will share here.
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Opportunity vs ‘Capturability’

With the recent name change of my employing firm I figured I would re-visit many of the basics of my job, one of which being my approach to due diligence.
Last year I posted about the due diligence process and a business plan breakdown, but over time my viewpoints on analysis have slightly shifted. It seems [...]

Social Search Engine Wink

Lately I have been researching on specific company employees in order to line up some interviews for a side research project of mine. I blogged about the research resources about a month ago, but wanted to blog specifically about the company Wink.
When I initially blogged I had yet to check out Wink. Since [...]

Research: Company News Releases

A lot of information about a company can be extracted from news releases, white papers and periodical publications. The most useful sites I have found include:

Proquest - (sometimes listed as Wall Street Journal Historical Newspaper) the “king” of the news is usually availabe through a university and/or library. This database includes a full [...]

Update of Research: Finding Previous Company Employees

As I have mentioned in this blog’s description, I will be updating certain entries from time to time as I am using this blog as a way to organize my research resources. Today I have updated Research: Finding Previous Company Employees.

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Research: Finding Historical Stock Quotes for an Inactive Company

A couple weeks ago I was helping a friend of mine try to find historical stock quote information for a stock that is now currently inactive. We searched everywhere and could not find any information! I would think that the past quotes would still be widely available, but we seriously searched every resource [...]

Research: Analyst Reports

I am always on the hunt for analyst reports, which are extremely tricky to find unless willing to pay thousands of dollars (which I am not). Some resources that I have found to be useful include:

Reuters On Demand - If the publication being searched for is from a business analyst or analyst group, the [...]

Update of Research: Stock Information

As I have mentioned in this blog’s description, I will be updating certain entries from time to time as I am using this blog as a way to organize my research resources. Today I have updated Research: Stock Information.

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Research: Finding Previous Company Employees

I just had a research project where I needed to find past employees of a certain company. I thought this would be somewhat tricky, but ended up being an easy task. Here is some useful info:

LinkedIn: LinkedIn gets a big round of applause in this research area. I have used the service in [...]