Tag Archives: Paul Kedrosky

What does this tell you about the state of the startup capital market?

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financial Markets | Tagged angel investors, busines angels, Business, capital, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Finance, investing, investments, Paul Kedrosky, startups, venture capital | Leave a comment

HubDub’s Nigel Eccles ridiculizes Paul Kedrosky’s post bashing the prediction markets after the Sarah Palin upset.

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Hilarious. – -

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Humor, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged BetFair, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Humor, InTrade, Nigel Eccles, Paul Kedrosky, political markets, prediction markets, Sarah Palin, VP prediction markets | Leave a comment

Paul Kedrosky … sucks. — Plus, Jason Trost is bashing InTrade and BetFair in order to boost his startup, Smarkets.

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

I will soon publish a full post on the relative accuracy of the VP prediction markets (and whether the prediction markets are useful at all, taking into account the occasional upsets theorized by Koleman Strumpf) —tackling Paul Kedrosky, Felix Salmon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets | Tagged accuracy, BetFair, betting markets, CNN, event derivative markets, event derivatives, InTrade, Jason Trost, Koleman Strumpf, Paul Kedrosky, prediction markets, Smarkets | Leave a comment

How VC blogger Paul Kedrosky pumped up HedgeStreet to his gullible readers in 2006, and later failed to update them with the hard fact of its (de facto) bankruptcy. Why telling the truth to readers when it’s easier to tell them fairy tales?

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Paul Kedrosky was all excited, in April 2006, to tell his gullible readers that HedgeStreet received another round of funding —adding all up to $24.9 million. – And just 18 months after Paul Kedrosky’s pronouncement, HedgeStreet (v1) ate the … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Business, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged bankruptcy, HedgeStreet, Paul Kedrosky, prediction markets, Titanic, USD, VC | Leave a comment

O’Reilly Media Money:Tech Conference

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Alex Kirtland

If you haven’t seen this take a look: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/64/about.html The relevant bit: Sample sessions and topics for Money:Tech include: Prediction markets work better than that other market Prediction markets are finally coming of age, becoming spooking-effective at predicting everything from … Continue reading →

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