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http://domain.buildvisit.com/ The data can be stale, so watch out for that. But, still useful for a quick look at many aspects of a site.
== Sales / Accounting / Risk Management ==
While developing your presence in the market, you also need to be able to check company financial and personal backgrounds for the people you are doing business with. In the old days, you could only go to [[wp:Dun & Bradstreet]] for credit history etc. D&B own [http://www.hoovers.com/ Hoovers] which is kinda the same thing. They trademarked the term "Company 360" and turned it into an Australian Company (http://company360.com.au/)
[[wp:AllBusiness.com]] was in the same business, but focused on aggregating data on small (<500 people) companies. Survivor of the Internet bubble, and later acquired by D&B, it was shut down and revived again. The current website http://www.allbusiness.com offers many things including [http://www.allbusiness.com/forms-agreements/ forms and agreements]
{{Highlight|text=Take all this data with a high degree of skepticism correlating with how expensive it is to access. On the other hand, completely free information is sometimes the best/most accurate}}
=== More Business Directories and Databases ===
# [[wp:TechCrunch]] (owned by AOL) is a company that offers the [https://www.crunchbase.com/#/home/index CrunchBase] website where you can find corporate backgrounder plus info on venture capital and executive team. {{@todo}} I should create a profile
# http://www.inbusiness.com/ (part of E-PersonalFinance.com and allbusiness.com)
# There are many [[wp:Financial data vendor]]s such as Bloomberg Terminal, Thompson Reuters, Moody's, Morningstar. Some you might access online or in your local [[library]], others might only be found in a brokerage house since the cost of these services can be several thousands of dollars per user per year.
# Zoominfo is a company that offers profiles, and has a "community edition" that they'll provide in exchange for '''your''' business contacts (NO THANKS). Although they don't let you easily [http://www.zoominfo.com/s/#search/person/ search their database for free] (they make it very hard to find), you can Google search for "John Doe" Zoominfo and get at least teaser results. Overall, it's a mechanical service that falls flat. They list 5 different people if you search for "Greg Rundlett"... they're all me. On the other hand, if you look at [https://linkedin.com/in/freephile the LinkedIn profile for Greg Rundlett] you get the whole me in one place. I had to create an account, login, and claim/merge my identities.
# Intellius is a company that is more oriented towards employee screening, identity protection and background checks. Again, the data that they mechanically assemble is of questionable quality. For example, they list me as living in York, ME. I have never lived in York, ME. All my residence info is public, so it's pathetic that they have false information that has "survived" for 20 years. They offer a way to get someone's email address if you provide the name and location. Despite my posting for 20+ years on public message boards and hundreds of websites, they have some .net address for me. I don't have a .net email address (at least not one that I use). And Google reveals my email address(es) in milliseconds for free.
# Manta.com is an online marketer/database of small businesses.
See also: [http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/ Deadpool] where tech flops go for a swim.
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