ENTR101 Entrepreurship & Ideation

• The corporate web site of your company will be the first place to look for information.  Here you'll find things like press releases, annual reviews, social media links and maybe even plans for future products.  Keep in mind that this information is provided by the company itself and is written to present the company in the BEST possible light to its customers and shareholders.  
• Edgar Company Filings from the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

Information about how to search EDGAR is available at this page.

• Annual Reports.com  has the most current and sometimes older annual reports.
• Fortune 500 company listings

• Stock ticker symbols can be searched at Yahoo! Finance

Statistical Sources on the Web

• Consumer Expenditure Survey program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. b
• Bureau of Labor Statistics is a great resource for business-related statistics of all kind.
• Explore Census Data - find population statistics from the U.S. Census
• Data.gov   Portal for all available U.S. government data 
• Economic Census - Every 5 years the Census does a special review of businesses in the country.  The most current information is from 2017.
• Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. 

From a company's website:

Johnson & Johnson. (2010, March 17). Form DEF 14A. Retrieved from http://www.investor.jnj.com

SEC.gov filings (EDGAR):

Starbucks Corporation. (2009, November 20). Form 10-K. Retrieved from http://www.sec.gov