Desk Research - Companies

Step 1: gather sources
- Create a spreadsheet (google doc.) share with the team

- Google the target words of your research. e.g; ' life science startups in Sweden '

- Put all the links you find in one sheet

Step 2: do research from each source
 

- Create another sheet with the columns named; status - sources - company name - country - website - first name - last name - e-mail - phone - comments

- How can you know if it is a start-up - Put right information in each column (sometimes it might be hard to find the person's e-mail, see here for tips to find a person's e-mail)
 * Founded year
 * Numbers of employees
 * Current stage: looking for fund/expansion

Step 3: clean the list
 - As you will ask a query before the desk research, put the data from BO and the new ones in one excel sheet and check for double organisations.

- Create a new sheet for new companies

Step 4: input new data in Back Office
- Click on the tab person'. '''first insert the person's e-mail to check if the person is already registerd. If not, click on ' persons new'  and fill in the required information. Click on the button ' next ' and approve the person.

- You need to connect the person with his/her organization, click ' join organization' . If it is a new company, click ' organizations new'  and fill in the required information. Click on the button ' next ' and approve the person.

- Go back to the person, ' join organization' 

- Go back to the person's page and look for the tab ' atrraction at events'  and click on the + button. Attract the person to the event and choose the right event/organization/role and mark status as ' targeted' . Click on 'attract' '''and then 'back to person'. '''[For more information on register people in BO, see here]