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Crowdcast and the Efficient Forecasting Frontier

Posted on June 27th, 2011 by leslie

Crowdcast is all about bringing the power of collective intelligence to bear on real business metrics.  Most of the time we’re practitioners, working with clients to apply our technology and knowledge to their challenges in project risk management and sales metrics.  Every once in a while, though, we get a great opportunity to step back [...]

The Economist and the Promise of PM

Posted on March 1st, 2009 by mat

This past week, The Economist wrote on the yet-unfulfilled promise of prediction markets. At Crowdcast , we believe prediction markets are not yet mainstream because the current solutions rely on mechanisms designed for the stock market, not for the enterprise. The stock trading metaphor works for a large, liquid stock market, but is unsuitable for [...]