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Tag Archives: prizes
Prizes – [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Business & Economic Models, Inventions & Innovations, Philanthropy
Tagged incentives, motivation, Peter Diamond, prizes, X PRIZE
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Risks pay off —sometimes. – [VIDEO]
Peter Diamandis on risks and innovation: Peter Diamandis: ACCEPTING RISK: Finally I’d like to address the issue of risk. In contrast to individuals who speak about reducing exposure to risk, I want to speak in favor of accepting more risk. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged aviation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, inventions, Peter Diamandis, prizes, risk, risks, space, X PRIZE
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Peter Diamandis’s X Prize Foundation, founded in 1996 to usher in an era of private space flight, has brought a new era of innovation through competition along with it.
“In 1997, the total value of philanthropic prizes with purses of $100,000 or more was roughly $74 million. Today that number is $315 million.“
McKinsey on the X Prizes
“Well designed prizes carry a strong element of theater that makes them newsworthy and media friendly. This messaging and brand-building potential is attractive to corporations looking to burnish their image or wealthy donors seeking to signal their arrival.†PDF file … Continue reading
How The Ensemble squeaked by to win the NetFlix Prize
As he tells me, Simon Owens “got a chance to interview one of its members at length about what it was like during the final moments leading up to the deadline, right before they reached the 10.10% mark”. Previously: Collective … Continue reading
Collective Intelligence, NetFlix Prize Edition = one million dollars… for the smartest “crowd”
NetFlix Prize – Leaderboard One million US dollars to the winner. “The Ensemble” is now ahead of the race… The crowd is indeed wiser than the individual. The 10% barrier once seemed distant and insurmountable. But when the contest’s “last … Continue reading
Cash Rewards for Innovations
- 3 micro finance sites: BigCarrot + CoFundOs + MicroPledge Via RWW
Posted in Finance, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged incentives, innovations, inventions, micro finance, micro finance sites, prizes
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Odyssey Moon = the first Google Lunar X Prize competitor
Odyssey Moon is the first team to complete registration for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. The company made its first public debut on December 6th at the Space Investment Summit in San Jose, California, unveiling its plans to … Continue reading
INTRADE-TRADESPORTS OPENS A FIVE-YEAR LONG, SOCIALLY VALUABLE PREDICTION MARKET.
The Google Lunar X Prize to be won on/before 31 December 2012 @ InTrade This contract will settle (expire) at 100 ($10.00) if the Google Lunar X Prize is won before 11:59:59pm ET on December 31st, 2012. The contract will … Continue reading
X Prizes for Prediction Markets
We need a foundation, built after the X Prize foundation (which is the news today because Google has donated to the Lunar X Prize), that would give out financial compensations to the best traders participating on play-money prediction markets for … Continue reading