Comments on: Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring - Inc.com http://competitive-intelligence.mirum.net/blog/in-the-news/competitive-intelligence-on-a-shoestring-inccom.html Tips, Tricks & Resources for a Competitive World Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:29:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Ian Graham http://competitive-intelligence.mirum.net/blog/in-the-news/competitive-intelligence-on-a-shoestring-inccom.html#comment-4 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:29:53 +0000 http://competitive-intelligence.mirum.net/blog/in-the-news/competitive-intelligence-on-a-shoestring-inccom.html#comment-4 The article on Inc.com by Jan Gardner is an excellent resource and extremely useful to mid and large size enterprise that have the resources to draw on multiple employees, subject matter experts and cultivate relationships with key experts (Security analysts, Associations and Journalists). If you are an entrepreneur or embryonic start-up the amount of time, capital and people you can commit to CI ais very limited. This would be the case for companies in the pre-seed and seed stage of the corporate lifecycle. I authored an article on Entrepreneur.com also titled “Competitive Intelligence on a shoestring” that is geared more toward the embryonic start-up whose needs and means are very different than those of a more established company. Therefore the whole CI process is usually done in a matter of days or a couple of weeks at most. In the start-up environment competitive intelligence is quite literally on a shoestring out of necessity. http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/marketresearch/article79512.html The article on Inc.com by Jan Gardner is an excellent resource and extremely useful to mid and large size enterprise that have the resources to draw on multiple employees, subject matter experts and cultivate relationships with key experts (Security analysts, Associations and Journalists). If you are an entrepreneur or embryonic start-up the amount of time, capital and people you can commit to CI ais very limited. This would be the case for companies in the pre-seed and seed stage of the corporate lifecycle.

I authored an article on Entrepreneur.com also titled “Competitive Intelligence on a shoestring” that is geared more toward the embryonic start-up whose needs and means are very different than those of a more established company. Therefore the whole CI process is usually done in a matter of days or a couple of weeks at most. In the start-up environment competitive intelligence is quite literally on a shoestring out of necessity.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/marketresearch/article79512.html

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