- 10-K Wizard
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index; through Gale, connect with library password
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index (for users who are logged on to the Stanford network)
- Biography Resource Center; (vendor description page)
- Biography Resource Center (for users who are logged on to the Stanford network)
- CEO Wealth Meter
- Forbes List index, includes wealthy individuals
- Hollywood prospect research page from USC
- Insider Trading from MSN Money; default search is set for MSFT; simply enter another company's ticker symbol to find inside trades.
- Insider Trading from NASDAQ; enter last name first
- Lawyers from Martindale-Hubbell
- California Professional Licenses; California's Department of Consumer Affairs license lookup page; check to see if someone is licensed in their field such as accountants, architects, nurses, psychologists, medical board, etc.
- NASD broker search; securities dealers website that contains brokers' work history and, sometimes, degree info. The link takes you to their disclaimer page, which you must accept to perform a search.
- National Obituary Archive;describes itself as "the world's largest repository of obituaries and death records with more than 55 million individual entries on file."
- Patent search from Google
- Patent search - quick & simple search from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); easy to use, but the advanced USPTO search page below with give you more refined results.
- Patent search from USPTO; somewhat daunting advanced search page from US Patent and Trademark Office; be prepared to type things like: in/brin-sergey to find the name of an inventor
- Phone book white pagesmeta-search; Langenberg is a sort of "meta-search engine," tapping into a number of databases for finding phone numbers of individuals and businesses.
- Phone number reverse directory; when you have a phone number or street address and want to find a name.
- Physicians and medical specialists (licensed); covers California only; maintained by state Medical Board.
- Physicians from AMA;short educational and professional background on American Medical Association members; more abbreviated listings on non-AMA members.
- Physician Salary Survey
- SEC EDGAR; search filings of companies which report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The forms that are of interest to development research are the one which detail an individual's stake in the company. Those forms include the annual proxy statement (DEF-14A, etc.), or the company's initial prospectus (403-B) and registration (S-1). These forms generally list the stock holdings of top management, directors and those who own 10% or more of the company. Certain individuals at those firms also file Forms 3, 4 & 5 which detail their stock ownership and trades. It's important to note that not everyone at a publicly listed company is required to post their stock holdings. Also, by definition, stock ownership information is simply not available for those at privately held firms.
- SEC Full-Text Search; covers the last four years only.
- Social Security Death Index
- Tax Assessor Database; good source for finding what a real estate parcel is worth. Repository of conversion factors for converting the assessed home value into estimated market value; also source for online tax assessor pages and phone numbers of tax assessor offices.
- Women in Philanthropy; resource originally developed by the late Ann Castle; provides an online resources page.
- Zillow; home valuation using comparables and other factors. Opinions differ on the accuracy of Zillow's home prices. It appears to be fairly accurate for properties in the San Francisco Bay Area and other busy real estate markets. Zillow's ability to give you "Bird's Eye View" of homes in Southern California area is a real boon.
- ZoomInfo; "search engine for discovering people, companies and relationships." Claims to have summaries of 27+ million people and 2.3+ million companies. Why is this better than just doing a Google search and finding someone's company bio? Well, a ZoomInfo search includes older as well as newer archived bios, and since the database only contains biographical material, the results are very focused and not cluttered with irrelevant stuff.
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