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Ask HN: Where do you find data on a market's size w/o spending a fortune?
2 points by Mumbler on Jan 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite
I'm working on my startup and pitch. One challenge I have is finding trusted reports on the size of the market that I want to sell into. In my case, it's law enforcement technology. I've researched different analysts, but they charge thousands for their reports, and I'm not even sure if their report really has the data that I need.

Any suggestions on how to find this type of data for a reasonable cost? I'm not looking for minutia, but a breakdown of spending trends by municipalities and the Federal government would be a decent start. I suppose this should all be public data, but that doesn't mean its any easier to coalesce.




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