the.com/reconnaissance
Looking before you leap, but with binoculars and trust issues.
means A preliminary survey of an area or situation, especially a military one, to gather information before acting.
from Borrowed from French 'reconnaissance,' meaning recognition or acknowledgment, from 'reconnaître,' to recognize — itself from Latin 'recognoscere' ('re-' again + 'cognoscere' to know). The word originally meant simply knowing something again, re-cognizing it; military use narrowed it to the act of scouting out the lay of the land before trusting it.
- military root
- from French reconnoître, to recognize
- business version
- competitor research, minus the camouflage
- golden rule
- gather intel without revealing you were there
- startup equivalent
- stalking your market before launching