Tag Archives: Boston

GroupOn is a lemon. — [LINKS]

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

I blogged negatively on GroupOn some time ago. This morning, I noticed a bunch of damning reports on the Chicago-based startup. UPDATE: Fortune. + More.

Posted in Business, Business & Economic Models, Finance | Tagged Boston, Business, business startup, business startups, Chicago, Finance, GroupOn, IPO, LinkedIn, Marc Andreessen, startup, startups | Leave a comment

Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine are speaking at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston.

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Enterprise 2.0 – Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – 2009-06-22~25 The Promise of Prediction Markets [*] #e2conf33 When will the product really ship? How much will we sell next year? While accurate forecasts are a cornerstone of a well-run enterprise, the methods … Continue reading →

Posted in Events & Meetings | Tagged Boston, Collective Forecasting, CrowdCast, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise prediction markets, Events & Meetings, forecasting, Leslie Fine, Mat Fogarty, meetings, prediction markets | Leave a comment

Robin Hanson @ MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson @ MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence @ MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – 2008-05-02 In passing, I say HELLO to our readers from the MIT and the Boston area. -

Posted in Events & Meetings | Tagged Boston, Cambridge, Center for Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Massachusetts, MIT, MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, United States | Leave a comment

My understanding was that she wasnâ€™t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I donâ€™t know exactly what experiences sheâ€™s claiming.

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Barak Obama on Hillary Clinton. Everybody laughed. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd (in a November column) continues: Hillary [Clinton] did not show good judgment in her areas of influence â€” the legal fiefdom, health care and running oppo-campaigns against … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Humor, Politics | Tagged Barak Obama, Boston, Clinton administration, columnist, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Joan Di Cola, lawyer, Madam Speaker, Maureen Dowd, mayor, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, President, San Francisco, Senator, The Wall Street Journal, treasury secretary, United States, US political elections, US President, US presidential elections, Yale | Leave a comment

Eric Zitzewitz’s Dartmouth College is in New Hampshire, not in Massachusetts.

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

My previous blog post (on the Massachusetts governor’s bill against Internet gambling and betting) referred to the fact that Eric Zitzewitz was (at least, briefly) a Boston resident, as I understand it from his writings. Dartmouth College professor Eric W. … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Boston, Dartmouth College, Eric W. Zitzewitz, Eric Zitzewitz, governor, Internet gambling, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Professor | Leave a comment

Massachusetts governor wants to send the TradeSports-InTrade traders to jail, and that includes Dartmouth College professor Eric Zitzewitz.

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick: Why is gambling in a casino OK and gambling on the Internet is not? Makes no sense at all. The Boston Globe: Even as Governor Deval Patrick seeks to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, he … Continue reading →

Posted in Regulations | Tagged Betting, Boston, Boston Globe, Dartmouth College, Deval Patrick, Eric W. Zitzewitz, Eric Zitzewitz, Gambling, governor, Internet gambling, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Professor, The Boston Globe, USD | 2 Comments

BASEBALL: Boston’s Red Sox wins the World Series… AGAIN.

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

New York Times Sorry, the chart above is too big for some of my readers…

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged Boston, New York Times | Leave a comment

Is sports betting legal if you bundle it with furniture?

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Eric Zitzewitz

From the Boston Globe: Jordan’s shoppers sitting pretty if Sox win Thousands of Red Sox fans could be sitting in free seats soon – if their team wins the World Series. Jordan’s Furniture, the Warren Buffett-owned local chain famous for … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Regulations | Tagged bank account, Barry Tatelman, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Eliot Tatelman, Furniture, insurance policy, Jordan, local chain, President, president and chief executive, USD, Warren Buffett-owned | 6 Comments

Combinatorial markets for independent events: Flawed use of approach hampers price discovery

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Michael Giberson

“Which teams will play in the 2007 World Series?“ An experienced market manager has created a market asking this question at the Inkling public markets, setting it up at the end of the regular season and listing contracts in each … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Market Contract Statements, Market Prices & Probabilities, Mechanism Designs | Tagged Alabama, American League, Arizona, baseball, Boston, Cleveland, Colorado, combinatorial markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, experienced market manager, general manager, Houston Astros, independence, Inkling, inkling markets, manager, market design, multiple outcomes, National League, Phil Garner, prediction markets, Purpura, Tim Purpura, Trader | Leave a comment

BetFair accurately predicted the direction of the interest rate change, but was too shy in its prediction of the amplitude of the interest rate change.

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair predicted: -0,25 The Fed decided: -0.50 That’s for the absolute accuracy. Now, what counts is the relative accuracy —the comparison between the prediction made by BetFair and the predictions made by the financial markets experts. I see that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged Ben S. Bernanke, Bloomberg, Board of Governors, Boston, chairman, Charles L. Evans, Cleveland, Donald L. Kohn, Eric Rosengren, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System, Felix Salmon, Frederic S. Mishkin, Kansas City, Kevin M. Warsh, Minneapolis, New York, Niall O'Connor, Randall S. Kroszner, San Francisco, St. Louis, Thomas M. Hoenig, Timothy F. Geithner, Vice-Chairman, Wall Street, William Poole | 1 Comment

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