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Anybody from Yale on Midas Oracle?? Or play poker?? Or is an entrepreneur?? Or is all that at the same time??

- Sean Glass, the co-founder of Pikum (featured minimally on Midas Oracle some time ago) is a very interesting young man. The guy helped created the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (and is a founding board member of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute). … Continue reading

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BetFair multi-millionaire laughs openly about how he is going to fool the Court of Justice.

- Father-of-5, BetFair co-founder Andrew Black: From one court case to another, and I’m back in court today to appeal against my driving ban. I will of course look very sad and contrite and tell the court that I’ve learnt … Continue reading

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Lords Of Odds

- Siddhartha Saha (from India) is the co-founder of www.LordsOfOdds.com. They are currently offering sports and entertainment predictions and will add current affair predictions soon. Siddhartha Saha founded this company with a couple of close pals. They will get into … Continue reading

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Meet The Neighbors.

BetFair’s co-founder Andrew “Bert” Black, now on a sabbatical, has bought a farm, which he is now living in. Time to meet the neighbors. One feature of life at home is the regular visits we get from one of the … Continue reading

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WordPress powers the MSM’s blogs: NY Times, WSJ, CNN, Fox, Time and People.

Pictured above is Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress), holding a Crunchie award (designed after a famous scene in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, Space Odyssey). WordPress is now used to power the blogs of many mainstream media (NY Times, WSJ, CNN, … Continue reading

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PREDICTION MARKETS + TV = a recipe for success

Why is HSX the Planet Earth’s most popular play-money prediction exchange? –> Because Max Keiser went on TV each week pitching HSX, in the late 90s. CNN prediction exchange –> pitched on CNN TV, soon = good thing CNBC prediction … Continue reading

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Eric Zitzewitz now out of Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s rich and remarkable local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams —ALAS.

Hardware companies have clustered around industry leaders in Silicon Valley, while Internet advertising and design has taken root in San Francisco. [...] The [Silicon] Valley residents see themselves as true entrepreneurs, entirely focused and dedicated. Marc Andreessen, 36, the co-founder … Continue reading

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BetFair co-founder says their Starting Price interface is slow and cluttered… AND THEN CALLS IT QUIT.

Andrew”Bert” Black: It was a big day for me yesterday, with Betfair finally launching the SP mechanism. I kicked the product off over 2 years ago, but it was a year and a half before we started work on it … Continue reading

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FALLON CASE: BetFair lawyer David O’Reilly is not the man… to say the least.

The Guardian: [...] In part, the fault is Betfair’s, for failing to ensure that police investigators understood the meaning of the complex evidence they provided, and for passing pages of irrelevant data to the Crown that provided one of many … Continue reading

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Ariadne Capital = Global Investment and Advisory Firm

Ariadne Capital: Ariadne Capital is an Investment and Advisory Firm focused on Software and Services, New Media, Communications and Life Services. We are backed by 40 Entrepreneurs who founded the firm in 2000 in order to build the market leading … Continue reading

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