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CrowdCast wanna hire “kick ass Ruby engineers”.

I saw that on Mat Fogarty’s LinkedIn page. Contact CrowdCast, if you feel your IT ass is “kicking”.
[List of their competitors.]

A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO.

A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO. This C-level team member will have considerable freedom to develop an already successful product. You will be compensated via a mix of cash and equity.
While we have not revealed the product to the public, we are already working with several major media companies, particularly in television [...]

Your LinkedIn group on Prediction Markets now has a job board.

Companies,
You are welcome to use it to make your “help wanted” announcements.
333 members —growing every day.

CrowdCast is hiring like crazy.

CrowdCast Careers:

VP Marketing
Senior Software Engineer
Support Engineer

Previously: CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts

Spencer Graham wants to be hired by CrowdCast as an intern.

And so the unshaved Spencer Graham writes up a blog post to pump up his application.
Good luck.
P.S.: Maybe you should shave.
Previously: CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts

How the obsession with InTrade and BetFair’s prediction markets destroyed some careers

It is an untold story on Midas Oracle.

There has been a carefully orchestrated plan to keep me out of the loop —so that I don’t report anything to you.
I have censored myself so as not to tell you what I know.

If you know anything, and want it published, contact me.

Collective forecasting startup CrowdCast is still hiring.

VP of Marketing
Crowdcast is the leading provider of enterprise forecasting solutions that aggregate team intelligence to deliver dynamic and accurate forecasts. This is an exciting opportunity to join a venture funded Enterprise 2.0 startup revolutionizing corporate forecasting. Crowdcast has received favorable early press, (NYT, Economist, VentureBeat etc) and has signed many Fortune 500 customers.
As VP [...]

How to get a great job in the prediction market industry

Penelope Trunk:
When you want to get a new job, don’t look at your resume to see what you could get. Instead, take time to build a resume that meets the requirements of the jobs you want. This doesn’t mean using keywords that are in the job description. That is not going to work. Instead, look [...]

Should you pursue your career as a prediction market worker or bottle yourself up in a graduate school?

Penelope Trunk (via Tyler Cowen):
A recession is typically a good time for graduate schools. Their application pool goes up because people see them as safe shelter from the storm. The scariest part of a down economy is the idea of having no income. Of course, graduate school does not solve for that. But graduate school [...]

Work at Xpree… Work at InTrade… And become rich and famous.

Xpree:
Company: Xpree
Job Title: Director of Product Management – Crowdsourcing Start Up
Xpree software enables crowd-sourcing of enterprise forecasts. When will the product really ship? How much will sell in Q2? Xpree taps the employee crowd to bet on forecasts and by doing so, produce exceedingly accurate predictions. Customers use the system to forecast sales, [...]

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