How does the fortune magazine come up with the Fortune 100 companies?  Are there any "academic" sources to it?
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nope definetly not... at least i dont think so
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interesting question. I know my university library has programs where you can look corporations up and they have that data. However, these programs are very expensive. You might check with a local library or if you are near a college town, as if the university as a program where you can look up corporation information. The databases I used are called Lexis Nexis and Mergent.\n\nYou could always try to do a SWOT analysis yourself too.
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It is a listing prepared annually by Fortune magazine of the 500 largest US industrial corporations, ranked by sales. Fortune also prepares a listing called the Fortune Service 500 for non-industrial corporations.\n\nThe Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune. The list is of the 1000 largest public American companies, ranked on revenues alone.
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If you want a good one you will pay about 60% of the royalties from the book. I suggest you look on college campuses. Interview each one and have them submit a portfolio.
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check out this site\n\nhttp://www.businessballs.com/referencesletterssamples.htm
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Try the Forbes list of wealthies individuals. My guess is he'd make it and they could 'estimate' it pretty well.
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There are plenty of suggestions in financial magazines, newslatters and alike. They also offer reasoning for their suggestions. However, all these suggestions are just  guesses. If anyone knew which shares are going to be profitable in the future, they won't waste their time writing for these magazines, but rather sip pinacolada in their villa in Hawaii.
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First, get a lot of capital. Most magazines fail for lack of adequate capitalization.\n\nSecond, what makes your magazine distinctive? If you misunderstand the marketplace, you may not even get to a third issue.\n\nThird, do you want to see if a major publisher might be interested in the magazine?\n\nFourth, what about distribution? A good magazine means nothing if it can get out there
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As a Singularity enthusiast, I understand where Google is going with this, business models should be focused on 5-10 years in the future…HOWEVER,  are we a little EARLY. There is no EPaper yet. If I look at these mags, I am not going to get the the AdSense magiv ad serving technology. I am probably going to receive look at a 1and1.com advertisement. Not sure Google is owning that attention the same way they do on-line. \n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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try the Harvard Business News they have some good articles
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Good Luck with that one! If anybody knows it they are gonna keep that a more guarded secret than the location of the Holy Grail. Try a selective search throgh morningstar.com and evaluate the mandatory yearly filings from each company the search provides to eliminate bad apples from the overgrown orchard ... and when you have the list narrowed down to 3 or 4 ... send them my way :P \nI bet you can see the other side of things now :) if you have to work that hard to acquire the knowledge.. keeping the secret is simple.
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It could happen many ways.  I would say the most common way for a major company to find one is via their advertising agency.  If they are on top of the goals of the organization they can figure out who would be a good fit for them or even help develop one (i.e. for organizations where the spokesperson is made up- Maytag man, etc.).  Once they have a list it is a matter of following up with the agents for the people to see if that would work for them & under what terms.  Then, if they are smart, do some research to make sure your target feels as good about them as you do.
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Why wouldn't the list from Forbes do?  Don't you think they would know the billionaires a lot better that a bunch of geeks on the internet?
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A good place to start is Motley Fool.  They are just like the court jester--the jester (England) who tell the king anything and still keep his head.  M.F. approach is to tell it like it is- inform, humor, and then let you decide what to do.  They don't work for a particular firm, that is only interested in that one thing.  They examine everything, and encourage all to read, ask questions before making any investments.  I really do encourage you to seek this out-- I just wish I had the money to invest!
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Forbes - It can make you rich
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Try business link they awere really helpful when i started up mine. also business angels and venture capitalists are groovy.