Hacking for Humanity / Social Ventures Incubator: Market & Competitor Research
News & Trade Publications
Up-to-date, industry-specific publications for a business audience. When using ABI/Inform Global, be sure to narrow search results to "trade journals" to focus on this kind of article.
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Search 1800 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, management techniques, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Includes the Wall Street Journal. - Factiva . This link opens in a new window
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Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors. - Business source complete . This link opens in a new window
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"Business Source Complete ... [provides] full text for ... scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for ... peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for ... top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."--Ebscohost web site. - ImpactAlpha. This link opens in a new windowImpactAlpha is a comprehensive source for news on impact investing from broad issues to specific impact investments.
Competitor Research
These resources provide information about companies and venture capital deals.
- CB Insights . This link opens in a new windowCB Insights is a venture capital and angel investment database that provides daily real-time information about venture capital and angel investor-backed startup companies, venture capital companies, angel investors and transactions in the United States. CB Insights produces data-driven reports and analyses related to venture capital, private equity and angel investment on a regular basis, including an in-depth quarterly venture capital report.
- Mergent online. This link opens in a new windowU.S. company data: An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; U.S. Annual Reports: Easy-to-access current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies, all in PDF image format that provides faster download and allows viewing the document; International company data: More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases; International Annual Reports: Hard-to-get, timely annual reports on all companies in our International Company Data database, available in PDF image formats; Corporate Visibility: Expanded, in-depth, and detailed descriptions of public companies as they appear in the Mergent Manuals (fka Moody's Manuals), which were first published in 1918.
- Preqin . This link opens in a new window"Preqin's integrated, 360° online private equity databases cover all aspects of the industry for all fund types, including buyout, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed, fund of funds, secondaries, natural resources and others. Preqin products cover fund performance, fundraising, buyout deals, fund manager profiles, fund terms and conditions, as well as institutional investors in private equity. "
- Pitchbook Access through the Lang CenterThe Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center provides access to Pitchbook to current Columbia University Business and Law students, faculty and staff. Pitchbook is a top resource for company and industry data, tracking every aspect of the public and private equity markets, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A.
Please see the Lang Center website for details about access.
Industry Reports
- FitchConnect This link opens in a new windowProvides in-depth market research reports on 24 industries and 200 global markets, emphasizing emerging markets. Also provides extensive economic and political risk ratings and analysis, macroeconomic analysis and forecasts, and financial analysis of debt and equity. Also includes profiles for over 500 multinational companies and their subsidiaries, and intra-daily alerts on economic, industrial, and political developments, business deals, multinational joint ventures, and regulatory changes.
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Full-text news, financial and economic information on emerging market countries in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, East, South and Southeast Asia, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus, Africa and Middle East. - IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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Business reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, global industry research, and economic and demographic data.
Demographic Data
Find social, economic, & other data using products like the Decennial Census & the American Community Survey. Access options include:
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"Our objective is to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. Our primary functions include Demographic Data Analysis, Interactive Map/Report Design and Software Development. Our main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county. For more recent years, one can display areas as small as your own neighborhood. Certain cities may even be displayed as far back as 1910. To do this we have developed a collection of interactive demographic maps that can be viewed, queried and manipulated on our site." - Infoshare online . This link opens in a new window
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Database of statistics about New York City from 1980 to the present. Consists of official statistical data from U.S., New York State, and New York City agencies. Includes population statistics, housing data, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, and more. Data is presented for the geographies that are unique to New York City.
- Data.Census.GovPortal for accessing U.S. census data. Includes American Community Survey, Economic Census, Economic Surveys & Decennial Survey
General Market Research Resources
What are secondary market research reports?
Secondary market research reports are reports written by analysts for a business practitioner audience (as opposed to an academic audience). The purpose of secondary market research is to.give business people a sense of trends in markets, industries, and consumer behavior.
Generally the reports in this guide focus on consumer goods. They also tend to focus on broad market categories rather than niche markets or products.
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Includes daily research articles, analyst reports, and a database of e-business and online marketing statistics, aggregated and analyzed from over 2,800 sources. Topics include market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. - Passport This link opens in a new window
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GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. - Mintel academic This link opens in a new window
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Offers yearly reports covering UK, Europe, US and International consumer markets in the CPG/FMCG, financial services, media, retail, leisure and industrial space. Market data including size, segmentation and forecasts. Includes daily updates on the hottest issues affecting key consumer markets and the economy. - RKMA market research handbooks / Richard K. Miller & Associates. This link opens in a new windowDownloadable market research handbooks covering the following market sectors: Casinos, Gaming & Wagering, Consumer Behavior, Entertainment, Media & Advertising, Healthcare Business, International Consumers, Leisure, Restaurant, Food & Beverage, Retail Business, Sports, Travel & Tourism. Each report breaks down into industry segments and covers market assessment, trends, demographics and more.
- Statista . This link opens in a new windowProvides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
Secondary Market Research for Technology Markets
- Forrester : information & knowledge management Forrester research. This link opens in a new window
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Forrester's research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts. - Faulkner's advisory for IT studies . This link opens in a new windowVirtual library of reports covering IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors. FAITS also links to technology and business news resources such as Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC.
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IT, telecommunications, and consumer technology market research and analyst reports.
Advertising & Ad Spend resources
- EMarketer . This link opens in a new window
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Includes daily research articles, analyst reports, and a database of e-business and online marketing statistics, aggregated and analyzed from over 2,800 sources. Topics include market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. - WARC : ideas and evidence for marketing people. This link opens in a new windowWARC is a database providing access to advertising and marketing information from various sources. The searchable sources include organisations of various countries, monographs, conference papers, abstracts (including 'Market research abstracts') and the full-text of various journals, including the International journal of market research, the Journal of advertising research, the International journal of advertising, Admap, the Journal of advertising history and Market leader.