451 Research

A technology research and advisory firm that appears in Kyle’s corpus only as one entry in his 2017 startup-media inventory — the “before” snapshot in The State of Startup Media - Research of what he was reading and following circa 2017, before the post-COVID explosion of founder blogs, Substacks, and newsletters. In that inventory it sits alongside paid/professional research and newsletter sources like Axios Pro Rata, Fortune Term Sheet, Stratechery, and PitchBook — the more institutional end of Kyle’s reading rotation. There is no further synthesis of 451 Research’s coverage in the wiki; it is a sourced list item, not a developed thread.

Context: 451 Research is an information-technology research and advisory firm known for analyst coverage of enterprise tech, cloud, and data infrastructure; it was acquired by S&P Global in 2019 and folded into S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Where this appears

• The State of Startup Media - Research — listed in the 2017 inventory of startup-media sources Kyle tracked, the “before” state the essay measures the post-COVID media explosion against.