Monthly Archives: May 2011

The BetFair exodus continues. — [LINK]

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Nobody wants to work under David Yu anymore. Via a faithful reader. Previously: BetFair employees believe that David Yu and the other top brass are a bunch of schmucks who are incapable of delivering leadership. — [NEWS]

Posted in Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged BetFair, Business, business executives, business people, David Yu, directors, execs, executives, human capital, human resource, human resources, leaders, leadership, management, managers, People, senior managers, The Sporting Exchange | Leave a comment

Unbound, a kind of KickStarter for books (or e-books) — [VIDEO]

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

http://www.unbound.co.uk/

Posted in Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged books, Collective Intelligence, crowdsourcing, e-books, KickStarter, Unbound | Leave a comment

To get news on the E-cat, come here on Midas Oracle. To get news on CFTC rulings, go to Knowledge Problem. — [IRONY]

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

It should be the other way around, but those are not normal times.

Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Regulations | Tagged CFTC, derivatives, futures, manipulation, manipulations, oil derivatives, oil futures, oil market manipulators | Leave a comment

John Delaney Obituary — [LINKS]

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

I’ve updated my original post, but I guess most of my readers didn’t return to it, so I am re-listing here the reactions to InTrade CEO John Delaney‘s death. – New York Times & CNBC. – all the negative remarks … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, People | Tagged Betting, betting markets, Business, Caveat Bettor, entrepreneurs, event derivative markets, Exchanges & Markets, InTrade, Ireland, John Delaney, Justin Wolfers, Max Keiser, Mount Everest, obituary, Patrick Young, People and tagged bets, prediction markets | Leave a comment

Wanna leave for Silicon Valley? — [VIDEO]

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

The act of getting up and leaving for Silicon Valley is the fundamental act of being innovative, according to Steve Blank. 00:25:00 into. [Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged cluster, clusters, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, innovation, leaving, moving, Silicon Valley, Steve Blank | Leave a comment

6 days later, the NYT on John Delaney’s death. — [NEWS]

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

They sheepishly re-publish the unverified PR-delivered factoid that InTrade has “more than 100,000 registered users“. What counts are the active traders, in fact. Not a word on how come a CEO can afford to take months off, and how come … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, People | Tagged death, John Delaney | Leave a comment

Tyler Cowen on the technology-based economic expansion — [VIDEO]

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Economics, Inventions & Innovations, People, The Global Economy | Tagged economic expansion, economic growth, Economics, economists, expansion, global economy, growth, TED, TEDx, The Great Stagnation, Tyler Cowen, US economy | Leave a comment

Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009. — [NEWS]

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

“Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009.”