Colorado Research Links
Address & Phone Searches
Argali (Free download)
Dex Online
Infospace
KnowX
http://www.knowx.com
Company Information
Colorado Secretary of State
Search by company name or individual contact
http://www.sos.state.co.us/
LexisNexis Company Profiles & D&B Reports
Free via your local library
S&P Net Advantage
Free via your local library
Hoover's Online
Pay site; Has Dun & Bradstreet information; Good source for IPO information
http://www.hoovers.com/
Reference USA
Database of 13 million U.S. Businesses
Free via your local library
Biz Stats
Business Statistics! Including average net profits to owner
http://bizstats.com/
Business.com
Another good business metasite; Bios of business executives
http://www.business.com/
Corporate Information
http://www.corporateinformation.com
D&B Small Business Solutions
http://sbs.dnb.com/default.asp
Franchises, Franchise Information, and Franchising Opportunities
http://www.worldfranchising.com./
Price to Sales Ratios
Price to Sales ratios for small and large businesses http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/psdata.html
Stock Information
Google Finance
Good business information site. Provides executive bios, compensation etc http://finance.google.com/finance
CBS Market Watch
A good site for stock information. Includes Insider Trading
http://www.marketwatch.com/
Yahoo Finance
Free Edgar
SEC Info
Proxy Statements
http://www.secinfo.com/
Forbes
www.forbes.com
Salary Information
CareerJournal
Salary and Hiring Info -- Industry Profiles, Salary; link to WSJ salary information
http://www.careerjournal.com/salaryhiring/
JobStar
http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/
Salary.com
www.salary.com
Physician Salary Survey Doctors who have been in practice at least 3 years
http://www.physicianssearch.com/physician/salary2.html
Real Estate
Christine Pulawski’s list of US County Assessors
Tax assessor and multiplier information for all 50 states
http://www.pulawski.net/
Zillow
http://www.zillow.com
Public Records from KnowX.com
A pay public records source. Includes real estate records searchable by name
http://www.knowx.com/
Yahoo! Real Estate –
Site will provide real estate value estimates by address. http://realestate.yahoo.com/realestate/homevalues/
County look up
http://nt.jcsm.com/city2zip2.asp
Other Asset Information
Aircraft Interactive Inquiry Site
Search Airplane Owners by name
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/
Portico
http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/personalproperty.html
Political Giving
Open Secrets
http://www.opensecrets.org/
FEC Database
http://www.fecinfo.com/
Foundations
Foundation Directory Online
Free via your local library
Guidestar
A handy online guide to more than 700,000 nonprofits and foundations in the U.S.; You will need to create a user name and password – but basic searches are free!
http://www.guidestar.org
The Foundation Center
Foundation Finder; Mostly recent form 990 available for free
http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html
Biographical Info
Martindale-Hubbell On line
Bios on Lawyers; also a way to find contact information on law firms
http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
AMA Home Page
Information on Doctors
http://www.ama-assn.org/
Architecture Firms and people
http://www.cmdg.com/profile/
National CPA Directory
http://www.cpadirectory.com/
ZoomInfo Biography Site
http://www.zoominfo.com/
US Golf Association Site
Search by state to find a golfer’s handicap and county club membership. Note – not all country clubs use this site to report golf handicaps
http://www.ghin.com/lookup/index.html
Judges
http://air.fjc.gov/history/judges_frm.html
CPA’s
http://www.cpadirectory.com/
Blacktie Colorado
Lists non-profit organizations – some with board lists. Also has some profiles of prominent community volunteers
http://www.blacktie-colorado.com/
News
Business Journals
Not all articles on posted online, but there is a searchable archive
http://www.amcity.com
BusinessWire
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com/
The Colorado Springs Business Journal
http://www.csbj.com/
The Denver Business Journal
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/
The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/
LexisNexis via your local library
Local & Regional Business Periodicals on the Web
http://www.bibliomaven.com/businessjournals.html
Pub sub
Allows you to search publication websites to which you have a subscription (i.e., the New York Times and Wall Street Journal)
http://www.pubsub.com/index.php
Rollyo
Allows you to select the sites you search (up to 25 pages); Tailor search to specialty topic such as: pediatric hospital websites or Colorado publications
http://rollyo.com/
The Rocky Mountain News
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
Other researchers links
APRA
http://www.aprahome.org/researchlinks/index.html
CPRA
http://www.apracolorado.com/
David Lamb's Prospect Research Page
http://www.lambresearch.com/
El Pomar Nonprofit Resource Center
http://www.ppld.org/AboutYourLibrary/Services/ElPomar/DEFAULT.ASP
Internet Prospector Reference Desk - Nonprofit Prospect Research
Internet Prospector is a free enewsletter for Prospect Research
http://www.internet-prospector.org/
NETSource@USC: Prospect Research
http://www.usc.edu/dept/source/
Dayton Memorial Library
http://www.regis.edu/library.htm
Denver Public Library
http://www.denverlibrary.org/
Non Profit Resource Handout via DML http://www.regis.edu/content/lib/pdf/lib.handouts.MNM.pdf
Portico
http://www.indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Stanford University Research Dept
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/OOD/RESEARCH