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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Ron Conway, the one and only – [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Finance
Tagged angel investors, angels, Business, business angels, capital, capitalism, capitalists, Finance, funding, investors, Ron Conway, startups, super angels, VCs, venture capitalists
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Why GroupOn is a fad – [VIDEO]
Rice University study finds Groupon is more beneficial for consumers than businesses. GroupOn compel sellers to lower their prices to the minimum, and, adding insult to injury, they take half of the generated revenue. As a result, this machinery attracts … Continue reading
Red means Jason Ruspini and David Pennock should rent as opposed to buy. – [CHART]
The Rent:Buy Ratio is calculated by using the median list price compared with the median rent on two-bedroom apartments, condos and townhomes listed on Trulia.com.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it.
Peter Thiel: It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people … Continue reading
CrowdPark = social betting – [VIDEO]
The CrowdPark team have tested their social betting model in Germany, and they are now opening an office in San Francisco to boost their US expansion. You can bet with a virtual currency, and their business model is to monetize … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Collective Forecasting, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged Betting, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, CrowdPark, event derivative markets, event futures, Martin Frindt, play-money betting, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social betting
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Why Tim Cook left Compaq in 1998 for Apple, even though it made little sense on paper (at the time, Apple was almost broke): He trusted his intuition just after five minutes into his interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who can be very convincing when he hires. – [VIDEO]
Apple COO and acting leader Tim Cook has addressed the Auburn University students at their 2011 commencement. Tim Cook believes in precognition ( ). “Intuition has the potential to direct or redirect you in a way that is best for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Individual Intelligence - Anti Consensus, Jobs - Careers - Hiring, Precognition, Psychology
Tagged Apple, Apple CEO, Apple COO, Business, Business Administration, careers, Compaq, computers, Information Technology, intuition, jobs, management, Precognition, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook
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Besides search, Google hasn’t had any mutant ideas, lately.
Horace Dediu: Cracks in strategy are hard to spot. One hint is that most of Google’s R&D efforts are defensive. Building browsers and mobile operating systems are methods to ensure they have distribution of search to as many screens as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Business, Eric Schmidt, Google, Horace Dediu, innovation, inventions, Larry Page, R&D, Research, Research & Development, Sergey Brin
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The 2010 Global Warming Exchange has been closed.
Here. 2010 was a warm year, despite record snow and ice in highly populated areas. Here is the message I provided on the expiry: The NASA GISS GLOBAL Land-Ocean Temperature Index for 2010 averaged out to 0.6325 Celsius above baseline. … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged betting markets, climate, event derivative markets, global climate, global cooling, global warming, Global Warming Exchange, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, weather
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Trading on Inkling’s prediction markets – [VIDEO]
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Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Makers (Automated), Market Trading, Mechanism Designs
Tagged Betting, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, Financial Markets, Inkling, inkling markets, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, trading
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