About New Venture Research

New Venture Research Corp. (NVR) was established in 1988 to provide advanced business research services for the high technology electronics sector.  Initially, the company’s focus was on providing startup businesses with market research and strategic planning consulting services since we were located in Silicon Valley, California.  Later, the company expanded into providing business development and merger & acquisition services to large and small as well as old and new firms. 

Today, NVR is a global provider of business intelligence, growth management and advisory services to companies in the information technology, telecommunications, consumer, scientific instrumentation and advanced electronics markets.

NVR assists companies in their decision making by providing timely market and strategic information.  Our goal is to help our clients achieve their key business objectives by offering a range of primary and secondary research capabilities that give guidance on new products and emerging businesses. 

The company is headquartered in Nevada City, California.

Randall Sherman, President and Founder

Randall Sherman is the founder and president of NVR and has more than 25 years experience in marketing of high technology electronics products, as well as a background in design and deployment of advanced, new products. He has been a founder of three start-up companies and regularly consults with many OEM and emerging firms in their product and business development strategies.

Mr. Sherman began his career as a Network Design Engineer for Honeywell Corp. designing wide-area voice and data telephony networks for state and local governments. This later led to an opportunity to become a founding partner in a start-up firm, Lexicom Microsystems Inc., where he helped to launch and market a new networked electronic mail product. Mr. Sherman later became a consultant in the fields of market research and management consulting services to such firms as Creative Strategies Research International, Dataquest, Input, Frost and Sullivan/MIRC and BIS Strategic Decisions. He subsequently became President and CEO of Lucid Information Services, a technology research consulting firm which specialized in providing legal, technical and marketing research support services to a wide variety of technology firms. Mr. Sherman sold the company to Failure Analysis Corp. and founded his own independent consulting practice, New Venture Research Corp., to focus on new product market research, due diligence and business development related services.

Mr. Sherman performed his undergraduate work in Astrophysics and obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Edinburgh School of Business, Edinburgh, Scotland.