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Does anyone have a list of PE firms / investment banks that regularly post industry research reports to their websites? For those of us working in the lower middle-market (and even middle-market), you very well may have limited to no access to industry standard databases, and these free reports can be invaluable. I'm going to look around a bit more and post what I can find. Would be great to use this post to start a master list if one doesn't exist already!

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Hire college students as interns and tap the databases their Universities pay for ie.) Bloomberg/FactSet/CapitalIQ/IBIS World

 
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