Jon
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You have lots to learn about the latest online trends (or as u probably call it, the “social web”).

Twitter? What’s that? You “web teo point oh” guru you.

As for comments on TechCrunch, I follow almost all of TechCrunch via Twitter, so my comments are usually over there. If you’ll have me, I’ll stick around on the full meal deal here.

Cheers!

However, You came *out of nowhere* (how many articles have you commented on?) and had some very opinionated statements that seemed self-serving. It struck a chord, my bad.

I agree that “a rising ship floats all boats”; and, I believe your points are valid. Many organizations do not even know that they need this tyke of information.

BTW, there wasn’t a petty correction made at all. I was being true to your quote and, as such, did not correct it.

If I had any motivation in commenting on RivalSoft it’s in hoping a little industry buzz will continue to help these types of organizations get funded. We need them desperately. I wish them and any other competitors that may come on the scene the best of luck. As an industry CI will certainly benefit by their service.

Again, no offense taken if none was meant.

I was previously too lazy to actually check if my intuition was correct, but your reply forced my hand. From the homepage of your website:

“Brightridge Group provides competitive intelligence services designed to convert competitive intelligence into actionable intelligence. ”

I think you believed that I thought you had an investment of sorts. I was saying that I believed your organization provided similar services, but in the traditional sense (like marketing agencies with contracts, etc.).

These guys reduce your ability to capture market share. Most companies in their target market already have atleast one MBA from a top ten school that doesn’t need anything more than the data aggregated.

Your first comment demonstrated your need to state the one differentiator your organization has, beside a most probable cost of 10x.

No commercial interest (in RivalSoft or otherwise), I promise. Hate to say your lim[sic] is thin. But no offense taken.

Looks like RivalMap has great data collection tools which is the easy, yet time consuming, activity of the in-bound marketing group.

A few companies I know and have worked for would certainly be interested.

Just to add a bit more detail, the new News feature has all the functionality of a private collaborative news reader, but organized with tags and integrated with our Clippings feature. In addition to keyword monitoring (from our partnership with NewsGator) and feed aggregation, RivalMap also helps users discover feeds, such as a competitor’s company blog, when profiles are added to an account. The addition of the news engine makes it easy to get information into an account, and we’ve found even in our large enterprise customers it facilitates the discovery and discussion of a lot more information.

RivalMap was built to help companies easily leverage as much information as possible to keep their teams informed and make the best strategic decisions. We’re really excited about the news feature’s role in helping companies stay up-to-date and share/discuss updates.

As a side note, we’ve also introduced a $24/month price point, as a lot of small companies and consultants requested something in between our free and Small Team plan.

Thanks again!
Andrew
RivalSoft Inc.

On a slightly related topic, are there any plans to put an API on crunchbase?

Still a good tool, especially for the price.