Tag Archives: Nate Kontny
“Entrepreneur” is a French word, Nate.
Nate Kontny of Inkling Markets – @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. – 2009-02-25
The thing you didn’t know about the other Inkling Markets co-founder —the one you never heard about.
Nate Kontny, the Inkling Markets CTO:
In his spare time, Nate is learning how to box, so watch out.
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Would he hit a bombastic blogger with his 2 little fists?
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Prediction Markets in the Classroom: Inkling Markets
hile prediction markets have been in the spotlight this year, they are still unfamiliar to many folks. As one small step towards improving their visibility, along with my colleague James Lemieux I ran a prediction market at the University of Kansas School of Business. The markets ran for three and a half months and almost [...]
Inkling Markets’ GodFather Speaks Out.
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Taking his propos and applying them to Adam Siegel and Nate Kontny, you’d get that:
The key is Adam Siegel and Nate Kontny’s determination. They refuse to fail.
The key for Nate Kontny was to find out a good co-founder —that was Adam Siegel.
[M]arket is the biggest determinant in the outcome of successful startups. [...] Smart people [...]
Inkling Markets embraces OpenID.
Another great idea from these two Chicago guys running Inkling Markets. Midas Oracle, too, will soon adopt OpenID.
Psstt… By the way, thanks to all the publicity on their frontpage and on Midas Oracle, there are now 60 prospects (from big companies to academics) who have opened a free, private, play-money betting exchange for forecasting purposes. [...]
Meet Adam Siegel and Nate Kontny of Inkling Markets.
Adam Siegel and Nate Kontny of Inkling Markets
Adam Siegel of Inkling Markets tops the Web 2.0 wave.
Chicago Sun-Times (an Inkling client –info that is not disclosed, of course):
Q: Didn’t the Internet craze die back in 2001? Why launch an Internet business?
A: The Internet craze didn’t die in 2001. Companies with no path to profitability, no plan, and excessive irrational behavior died in 2001. The possibilities of the Internet in relation to [...]
DIY PREDICTION MARKETS: Foresight Exchange or Inkling Markets or Flutter??
Robin Hanson (PDF file):
[...] I created the first internal corporate idea futures at Xanadu in 1989, and in 1994 my design and inspiration led to one of the first web markets, then called Idea Futures, for which I received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, a prestigious electronic art prize. Now called the Foresight Exchange, [...]
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