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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

CIO

Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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5 Reasons Why Startups are Turning to AI and Contractors

Smart Data Collective

Why are startups increasingly aligning with artificial intelligence and the gig economy? It’s simple: AI and contractors offer them agility and precision in a competitive market. Startups are unique beasts striving to disrupt markets with limited resources but boundless innovation.

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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

CIO

Startup” means risk. Cisco sets aside space for an innovative team operating with a startup mindset. More than an experimental group, they hold themselves accountable the same way any startup should. Like any startup, delivering on expectations is job one. Why not both? The alternative is shuttering for good.

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How to Get Started with Competitive Landscape Analysis

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If you’re like most people, you can feel your market getting more and more competitive with each passing year. New startups emerge. Established companies steer into your lane. And all the while, you continue to go head-to-head with familiar foes.

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Competitive Intelligence Analyst: Career Path & FAQs

Cipher

The field of market and competitive intelligence (M/CI) is growing fast, and there’s more demand than ever for Competitive Intelligence Analysts. A quick LinkedIn search reveals more than 17,000 open roles in the United States, across all kinds of industries and company size: from Fortune 50 corporations to tiny startups.

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IT Hardware Startups Turn to Data Analytics for Market Research

Smart Data Collective

The IT landscape, on the other hand, is intensely competitive, with growing technology and fast-changing client demands. Startups require a solid foundation founded on extensive market research to flourish in this volatile climate. Analyze your competition thoroughly, including established firms and rising entrepreneurs.

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

CIO

Numerous IT vendors are likely to be affected by the advisory, including cloud service providers such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and IBM; software vendors such as Databricks and Salesforce; model service providers (mostly startups) such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Cohere, along with social platforms such as Meta.

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