Today, our CEO, Mat Fogarty, took to the stage to present at the Financial Forecasting and Planning Summit in sunny San Diego. The goal of the Summit is to bring together leaders in the industry to discuss innovation and financial planning methods that are key to future business success. Presentations during the conference focus on [...]

A couple weeks back I wrote about our “new mech” project, a wholesale redesign and reimplementation of our knowledge aggregation mechanism. In this post I will talk about why traditional project management techniques failed us and how Crowdcast helped us to recover. As I mentioned last time, our initial attempt at running the project revolved [...]

Yesterday we announced an exciting partnership with Peer Insight, a strategic innovation consultancy that focuses on identifying emerging business opportunities. Our prediction markets platform will allow Peer Insight to tap the knowledge of their clients’ employees and translate it into crowd forecasts, or crowdcasts, of a variety of key metrics. Peer Insight’s recommendations, now backed [...]

At TED, the speakers are as remarkable as their talks. In her blog post titled Transformative Transparency, Ogilvy PR’s Virginia Miracle called out Monitor 360‘s Doug Randall, who gave a presentation in which he described an on-going project Crowdcast is doing with Monitor 360 for the intelligence community around crowd sourcing insights from people on [...]

We completely redesigned our knowledge aggregation mechanism — or “new mech” as it has endearingly became known here at Crowdcast — several months back.  The new mech is interesting for a number of reasons.  Here are two: it’s a novel and robust way to collect information (we’ve already filed two patents on it), and integrating [...]

On Tuesday, Brooke and I attended the Catalyst Girls in Tech conference. It was a wonderfully organized and star-packed event aimed at supporting the career development of women in the tech industry. Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch, keynoted, backed up by an impressive list of speakers and workshop leaders. Two first impressions: You know you’re [...]