Comments on: Scheme to Destroy Your Competition with RivalMap http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:28:09 -0800 hourly 1 By: Buy flat http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-2548920 Buy flat Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:11:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-2548920 Good attempt not o be so <a href="http://flat323.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">flat</a> as others. Good attempt not o be so flat as others.

]]> By: Konkurrenzanalyse 2.0 » Blog Archiv » Der Praktikant auf dem Datenfriedhof oder: Warum Konkurrenzanalyse so unsexy ist http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-2005285 Konkurrenzanalyse 2.0 » Blog Archiv » Der Praktikant auf dem Datenfriedhof oder: Warum Konkurrenzanalyse so unsexy ist Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:47:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-2005285 [...] überflüssig oder sogar schädlich - diese Vorurteile liest man regelmäßig, so auch in der Techcrunch-Diskussion anlässlich der Vorstellung des neuen CI-Systems RivalMap. Hauptkritik: man laufe den Konkurrenten [...] [...] überflüssig oder sogar schädlich – diese Vorurteile liest man regelmäßig, so auch in der Techcrunch-Diskussion anlässlich der Vorstellung des neuen CI-Systems RivalMap. Hauptkritik: man laufe den Konkurrenten [...]

]]> By: Metricz | Drive Success http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1859077 Metricz | Drive Success Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:27:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1859077 <strong>RivalMap - Time to start managing your competitive information!...</strong> Last week RivalSoft launched RivalMap, a collaborative web based solution for managing competitive information. I’ve used Competitious on and off over the past year, and it’s a great tool. Though, as stated in this Competitious blog post,&... RivalMap – Time to start managing your competitive information!…

Last week RivalSoft launched RivalMap, a collaborative web based solution for managing competitive information.
I’ve used Competitious on and off over the past year, and it’s a great tool. Though, as stated in this Competitious blog post,&…

]]> By: Kris Rasmussen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1850090 Kris Rasmussen Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:11:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1850090 Mason, the comparison to Basecamp was not an accurate one. While we do share some similar design principles with 37 signals there isn't much else we have in common. Our product is a market intelligence tool, not a project management tool like Basecamp and Wrike. Basecamp and Wrike have nothing to do with comparison matrices, social bookmarking, competitor analysis, threat ranking, and market digests like we do. I don't mind that you are probably involved in Wrike and would like to plug it where Basecamp is mentioned but please don't flame unrelated products until you have at least tried them. Mason, the comparison to Basecamp was not an accurate one. While we do share some similar design principles with 37 signals there isn’t much else we have in common. Our product is a market intelligence tool, not a project management tool like Basecamp and Wrike. Basecamp and Wrike have nothing to do with comparison matrices, social bookmarking, competitor analysis, threat ranking, and market digests like we do. I don’t mind that you are probably involved in Wrike and would like to plug it where Basecamp is mentioned but please don’t flame unrelated products until you have at least tried them.

]]> By: Jason Wringam http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1849481 Jason Wringam Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:13:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1849481 nice plug mason :-/ nice plug mason :-/

]]> By: Mason Aho http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1849103 Mason Aho Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:44:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1849103 Well, I don't see anything too cool about the tool. There seem to be hundreds of these on the Web now. Basecamp, in my opinion, is not the best thing to copy, really. If you are looking for a good marketing tool, check out the one I'm using http://www.wrike.com/. It's not perfect, but I really think it's the best on the market so far and I've seen dozens of those tools, believe me. The main killer features are: email integration, task tagging and timeline, where you can drag-and-drop due dates. Well, I don’t see anything too cool about the tool. There seem to be hundreds of these on the Web now. Basecamp, in my opinion, is not the best thing to copy, really. If you are looking for a good marketing tool, check out the one I’m using http://www.wrike.com/. It’s not perfect, but I really think it’s the best on the market so far and I’ve seen dozens of those tools, believe me. The main killer features are: email integration, task tagging and timeline, where you can drag-and-drop due dates.

]]> By: Kris Rasmussen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1833577 Kris Rasmussen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:01:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1833577 Dave, if you are talking about permissions, we do have them. You can mark certain users and groups as read only, comment only, etc on each workspace. Dave, if you are talking about permissions, we do have them. You can mark certain users and groups as read only, comment only, etc on each workspace.

]]> By: dave http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1833487 dave Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:08:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1833487 no, the problem is NOT getting users to put in information - the problem is only controlling who puts in information...this is the collection conundrum that rivalmap still fails to solve, and instead puts the onus back upon the user to resolve (for group accounts, not the freebies) no, the problem is NOT getting users to put in information – the problem is only controlling who puts in information…this is the collection conundrum that rivalmap still fails to solve, and instead puts the onus back upon the user to resolve (for group accounts, not the freebies)

]]> By: Google²+eBay²=Uniseek http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1833175 Google²+eBay²=Uniseek Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:39:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1833175 ok... I'm going to 'switch'. I guess I should stop being cheap. ok… I’m going to ’switch’. I guess I should stop being cheap.

]]> By: Snyggast http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832691 Snyggast Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:25:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832691 @ Larry newspaper clipping companies used to make tons of $$ from Yahoo to keep track of rival Excite. Meanwhile, Excite did the same thing only in-house. their junior Marketing people did all the cutting and pasting. @ Larry

newspaper clipping companies used to make tons of $$ from Yahoo to keep track of rival Excite. Meanwhile, Excite did the same thing only in-house. their junior Marketing people did all the cutting and pasting.

]]> By: Mike L. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832538 Mike L. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:56:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832538 I signed up for Competitious a while ago, the notion seemed great but the platform was not up to to snuff for my team to share real information. This seems like a totally different product, appealing to a different set of companies (real companies). I don't see this as an aggregator of free information like Competitious; this is a platform for sharing, almost a knowledge management system thats actually manageable. Pre-filled information would be a plus, but where would that come from, Hoovers? that would cost more $$$ - maybe an add-on? I signed up for Competitious a while ago, the notion seemed great but the platform was not up to to snuff for my team to share real information. This seems like a totally different product, appealing to a different set of companies (real companies). I don’t see this as an aggregator of free information like Competitious; this is a platform for sharing, almost a knowledge management system thats actually manageable.
Pre-filled information would be a plus, but where would that come from, Hoovers? that would cost more $$$ – maybe an add-on?

]]> By: Patrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832182 Patrick Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:50:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832182 Correction - I meant to say that RivalMap was *Competitious*, not Confluence, as I wrote above. Correction – I meant to say that RivalMap was *Competitious*, not Confluence, as I wrote above.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832175 Patrick Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:48:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832175 We've been using RivalMap for several months as a beta customer and I view this as a very important evolution in competitive intelligence gathering and analysis. We began an organic collaborative CI effort using a wiki (Confluence) but in my company (very large company), non-technical users found the wiki too difficult to use, for starters, and part of our goal has been to extract even small nuggets of CI from many parts of the company. For me, the raw wiki did not provide the kind of flexibility we needed to execute to our CI vision and needs and we fortunately stumbled upon RivalMap -- they were Confluence when we found them, we called them to ask whether they could do something more consistent with our vision, they disclosed that RivalMap was in the works and that we should become a beta tester, which we did. Bottom line is that RivalMap is the best tool of its kind that we found -- and we hired a consultant that for two months evaluated many options -- that did not require us to invest in an expensive business intelligence system and the accompanying customization and integration. RivalMap will scale well for organizations of many sizes and they've worked out many kinks -- e.g. category taxonomies -- that have allowed us to really get great value out of the system for what I view as a very reasonable monthly fee. A key challenge in any collaborative intel effort is getting the right folks to contribute and comment on new bits of intel -- RivalMap has a daily email digest that is distributed to our execs which allows them to passively read updates that the team makes, and then allows them to sign in and make further comments or ask questions when a topic comes online that is of interest or concern -- far more effective than email and an excellent tool for folks across functions and geographies. If you are in a fast moving industries with many seemingly complex moving competitive parts, this is at a minimum an excellent change agent to drive a more "paranoid" competitive mindset internally, and for us anyway, this has actually delivered tangible results in terms of responding to new threats more quickly and more effectively. If you are skeptical about how effective a tool like this can be for your organization -- you're skepticism is to some degree warranted as this tool alone won't solve all your CI problems, however in conjunction with competent CI leadership internally, RivalMap has great potential and is a good value for the money. We’ve been using RivalMap for several months as a beta customer and I view this as a very important evolution in competitive intelligence gathering and analysis. We began an organic collaborative CI effort using a wiki (Confluence) but in my company (very large company), non-technical users found the wiki too difficult to use, for starters, and part of our goal has been to extract even small nuggets of CI from many parts of the company. For me, the raw wiki did not provide the kind of flexibility we needed to execute to our CI vision and needs and we fortunately stumbled upon RivalMap — they were Confluence when we found them, we called them to ask whether they could do something more consistent with our vision, they disclosed that RivalMap was in the works and that we should become a beta tester, which we did. Bottom line is that RivalMap is the best tool of its kind that we found — and we hired a consultant that for two months evaluated many options — that did not require us to invest in an expensive business intelligence system and the accompanying customization and integration. RivalMap will scale well for organizations of many sizes and they’ve worked out many kinks — e.g. category taxonomies — that have allowed us to really get great value out of the system for what I view as a very reasonable monthly fee. A key challenge in any collaborative intel effort is getting the right folks to contribute and comment on new bits of intel — RivalMap has a daily email digest that is distributed to our execs which allows them to passively read updates that the team makes, and then allows them to sign in and make further comments or ask questions when a topic comes online that is of interest or concern — far more effective than email and an excellent tool for folks across functions and geographies. If you are in a fast moving industries with many seemingly complex moving competitive parts, this is at a minimum an excellent change agent to drive a more “paranoid” competitive mindset internally, and for us anyway, this has actually delivered tangible results in terms of responding to new threats more quickly and more effectively. If you are skeptical about how effective a tool like this can be for your organization — you’re skepticism is to some degree warranted as this tool alone won’t solve all your CI problems, however in conjunction with competent CI leadership internally, RivalMap has great potential and is a good value for the money.

]]> By: ajay singh http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832042 ajay singh Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:39:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832042 in marketing this tool could make a big splash. "scheme" makes it sound negative - seems like it relates more to knowledge management or something to me. in marketing this tool could make a big splash. “scheme” makes it sound negative – seems like it relates more to knowledge management or something to me.

]]> By: Ole Olson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1832034 Ole Olson Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:33:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1832034 Who are you tracking with your TechCrunch account Michael? Who are you tracking with your TechCrunch account Michael?

]]> By: KillerStartups.com - RivalMap.com - Ravage the Competition By Organization http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831981 KillerStartups.com - RivalMap.com - Ravage the Competition By Organization Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:01:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831981 <strong>RivalMap.com - Ravage the Competition By Organization ...</strong> I found your entry interesting do I've added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)... RivalMap.com – Ravage the Competition By Organization …

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :) …

]]> By: Andrew Holt http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831927 Andrew Holt Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:26:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831927 Larry: These are interesting points. The purpose of maintaining competitive awareness is not to obsess with what the competitors are doing and play catch-up, like you said. However, all successful companies need to establish a unique value proposition in order to gain market share and build customer loyalty. To do this, it's crucial that you understand how competitors, both direct and indirect, are satisfying customer and market needs, how their release cycles work, what their strategic goals are, etc. Marketing and sales depend on market intelligence to do their jobs properly, and breaking down the communication barriers between different groups for that type of information gives companies a big leg up. RivalMap also serves larger companies that need a way to communicate market intelligence across their organization, especially with separate business units and geographies. The larger enterprises that participated in our beta found a lot of value in the central collaboration features, in addition the more specialized structure about competitors. One of the important differentiating benefits of RivalMap is that is allows competitor and industry information to be structured in a way that enables companies to better analyze and understand it. For example, we reorder latest activity in email digests based on how it relates to top competitors... something that cannot be done easily with tools like wikis. Larry: These are interesting points. The purpose of maintaining competitive awareness is not to obsess with what the competitors are doing and play catch-up, like you said. However, all successful companies need to establish a unique value proposition in order to gain market share and build customer loyalty. To do this, it’s crucial that you understand how competitors, both direct and indirect, are satisfying customer and market needs, how their release cycles work, what their strategic goals are, etc. Marketing and sales depend on market intelligence to do their jobs properly, and breaking down the communication barriers between different groups for that type of information gives companies a big leg up.

RivalMap also serves larger companies that need a way to communicate market intelligence across their organization, especially with separate business units and geographies. The larger enterprises that participated in our beta found a lot of value in the central collaboration features, in addition the more specialized structure about competitors.

One of the important differentiating benefits of RivalMap is that is allows competitor and industry information to be structured in a way that enables companies to better analyze and understand it. For example, we reorder latest activity in email digests based on how it relates to top competitors… something that cannot be done easily with tools like wikis.

]]> By: Kevin Bartus http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831879 Kevin Bartus Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:07:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831879 Medusa turned you to stone - if you can't read mythology, at least play God of War! :-) If the software does half of what it promises, it'd be darn useful. Don't see how it can know all that much about a private company beyond press releases and maybe some traffic data, but I'm up for a trial spin. And anyone who doesn't obsess about their competitors isn't going to be running a company for very long. Medusa turned you to stone – if you can’t read mythology, at least play God of War! :-)

If the software does half of what it promises, it’d be darn useful.

Don’t see how it can know all that much about a private company beyond press releases and maybe some traffic data, but I’m up for a trial spin.

And anyone who doesn’t obsess about their competitors isn’t going to be running a company for very long.

]]> By: Steve Ballmer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831854 Steve Ballmer Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:55:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831854 Now that's my kinda website! Now that’s my kinda website!

]]> By: Aniq Rahman http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831841 Aniq Rahman Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:51:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831841 @Larry Velez: I wouldn't say that you're crawling behind the competition by keeping a watchful eye over them. It's always good to know what's happening around you. Otherwise you'll end up making something like Vista one day ;) Nobody ever said that this site promotes following - I think that it helps you identify what you are really competing against/potentially partnering with. @Larry Velez: I wouldn’t say that you’re crawling behind the competition by keeping a watchful eye over them. It’s always good to know what’s happening around you. Otherwise you’ll end up making something like Vista one day ;)

Nobody ever said that this site promotes following – I think that it helps you identify what you are really competing against/potentially partnering with.

]]> By: Larry Velez http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831811 Larry Velez Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:41:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831811 I'm not sure there is much long term value in tools like these. Any company that spends its time watching the competition is not going to make it. If you look at the companies who have successfully survived Microsoft entering its space you will see it is companies like Adobe who always did their own thing and never focused on the competition - it is like looking at Medusa: slows you to a crawl. While you have to be aware of what your marketspace looks like, if you obsess with what everyone else is doing - you will find yourself following instead of leading. I’m not sure there is much long term value in tools like these.

Any company that spends its time watching the competition is not going to make it.

If you look at the companies who have successfully survived Microsoft entering its space you will see it is companies like Adobe who always did their own thing and never focused on the competition – it is like looking at Medusa: slows you to a crawl.

While you have to be aware of what your marketspace looks like, if you obsess with what everyone else is doing – you will find yourself following instead of leading.

]]> By: Dan K. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831792 Dan K. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:34:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831792 I just watched the video and it looks like a very interesting set of services. What I like most is that for larger companies like ours, it seems like there's even more value because we can intelligently and cohesively gather and disperse information as necessary to different people - plus having a single collaborative environment to place it all is great. BTW, good call Carl Mercier - watching the video helps a lot because it explains most of the functionality and brought up some stuff I didn't pick up immediately from just using the trial. What I really like is how simple and effective this is compared to other knowledge management software we've tried. I've come across other "collaborative" products before but short of having an online presence (making it accessible to everyone in our company), there really wasn't much collaboration going on. I can certainly understand how the design of tools here makes it infinitely easier to actually use and manage the datasets we have. I've been pretty loathe to try a lot of this kind of software before because it just seems like you're collecting bits or strings of information that sit in some repository w/o any real analytical or manipulation tools and most of them have horried UIs. This is slick and relevant, I'm interested to see how our company actually makes use of it. I just watched the video and it looks like a very interesting set of services. What I like most is that for larger companies like ours, it seems like there’s even more value because we can intelligently and cohesively gather and disperse information as necessary to different people – plus having a single collaborative environment to place it all is great. BTW, good call Carl Mercier – watching the video helps a lot because it explains most of the functionality and brought up some stuff I didn’t pick up immediately from just using the trial.

What I really like is how simple and effective this is compared to other knowledge management software we’ve tried. I’ve come across other “collaborative” products before but short of having an online presence (making it accessible to everyone in our company), there really wasn’t much collaboration going on. I can certainly understand how the design of tools here makes it infinitely easier to actually use and manage the datasets we have.

I’ve been pretty loathe to try a lot of this kind of software before because it just seems like you’re collecting bits or strings of information that sit in some repository w/o any real analytical or manipulation tools and most of them have horried UIs. This is slick and relevant, I’m interested to see how our company actually makes use of it.

]]> By: Aniq Rahman http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831784 Aniq Rahman Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:33:19 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831784 This looks like an amazing piece of technology. Everyone that has ever written a business plan has had to put some focus on their competitors - but not everyone has had the ability to easily keep track of it all -- or to get rich analytics on them either. RivalMap seems to promote a way to always keep an eye on what is getting ready to sneak up on you. I think that it would be cool to get up and running at some MBA programs and undergraduate business schools. This looks like an amazing piece of technology. Everyone that has ever written a business plan has had to put some focus on their competitors – but not everyone has had the ability to easily keep track of it all — or to get rich analytics on them either. RivalMap seems to promote a way to always keep an eye on what is getting ready to sneak up on you.

I think that it would be cool to get up and running at some MBA programs and undergraduate business schools.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831743 Nathan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:18:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831743 In particular, this seems like a great a tool for start-up teams, which must digest a lot of information at once and make sense of it. The three-user free account seems like a great opportunity to test it out in a real way among core team members. Oh, and visually it looks cool too :-) In particular, this seems like a great a tool for start-up teams, which must digest a lot of information at once and make sense of it. The three-user free account seems like a great opportunity to test it out in a real way among core team members. Oh, and visually it looks cool too :-)

]]> By: Carl Mercier http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1831693 Carl Mercier Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/scheme-to-destroy-your-competition-with-rivalmap/#comment-1831693 I'm impressed, very impressed! If you haven't done so, watch the 5 minute video. The UI is extremely slick and easy to navigate. Congrats on the launch! I’m impressed, very impressed! If you haven’t done so, watch the 5 minute video. The UI is extremely slick and easy to navigate. Congrats on the launch!

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