Crowdcast to join, sponsor CHI PM Summit

[Jennifer Hulett]

Crowdcast, the leading provider of prediction market solutions for
collective forecasting, to join your Chicago PM Summit.

Crowd Cast: http://www.crowdcast.com/
PM Summit: http://www.pmcluster.com/CHI09.htm

You may follow breaking news on your PM Summit at:

http://twitter.com/PMClusters

Note: Your Chicago Early-Bird Summit Registration closes October
First!

http://www.regonline.com/pmclusterCHI09



Sincerely,

Jennifer

[Emile Servan-Schreiber]

"Crowdcast, the leading..."
Based on what metric, exactly?

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Emile Servan-Schreiber
CEO, NewsFutures Inc.
http://www.newsfutures.com
Tel US: +1 (443) 321-2700
Tel EU: +336 1804 3404

*** THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL PROPRIETARY INFORMATION OF NEWSFUTURES, INC. ***

[Jennifer Hulett]

Dear Emile –

Thanks for your message. We retrieved this description from Google.
See:

1. Crowdcast | Prediction Market Forecasting Solutions
Crowdcast is the leading provider of prediction market solutions for
collective forecasting. Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds, Crowdcast
empowers its ...
www.crowdcast.com/ - Cached - Similar -
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Thanks for asking.

Cordially,

Jennifer


On Sep 24, 9:19 am, Emile Servan-Schreiber <e...@newsfutures.com>
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> "Crowdcast, the leading..."
> Based on what metric, exactly?
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jennifer Hulett <
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> jennifer.hul...@pmclusters.com> wrote:
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> > Crowdcast, the leading provider of prediction market solutions for
> > collective forecasting, to join your Chicago PM Summit.
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> > Crowd Cast:              http://www.crowdcast.com/
> > PM Summit:              http://www.pmcluster.com/CHI09.htm
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> > You may follow breaking news on your PM Summit at:
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> >http://twitter.com/PMClusters
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> > Note: Your Chicago Early-Bird Summit Registration closes October
> > First!
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> >http://www.regonline.com/pmclusterCHI09
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> > Sincerely,
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> > Jennifer
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> --
> Emile Servan-Schreiber

> CEO, NewsFutures Inc.http://www.newsfutures.com
> Tel US:              +1 (443) 321-2700        +1 (443) 321-2700
> Tel EU:              +336 1804 3404        +336 1804 3404

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[Cédric Gaspoz]

Hi, thanks to "Google" or better, thanks to their own PR guys, we can ranks the PM vendors:

1/ Leaders
InTrade: THE Leading Prediction Market
Consensus Point: the leading provider of business prediction market...
NewsFuture: Leader in Prediction Market Solutions for Entreprise
Crowdcast: the leading provider of prediction market solutions for collective forecasting
HSX: the world's leading entertainment stock market

2/ Pack members
Inkling: Business Intelligence Using Prediction Markets
Nosco: state of the art Idea Mangement software based on prediction markets
Pro:kons: The software solution for Prediction Markets and consensus building
Qmarkets: Qmarkets provides Enterprise prediction markets & idea management software, for innovation, sales forecast & decision support
Spigit: Spigit is innovation software designed to connect and analyze your social networks, communities, partners and customers
exago markets: Solutions Exago Markets focus on three major areas: support to the process of management ideas, testing concepts within and outside the organization and forecast of future events
tradesmarter: TradeSmarter: Binary Options Trading platform of real time trading on forex options, stocks and commodities. Binary Options is the simplest way to take a position on economic events, letting you speculate on your financial views.

Nice to see so many (world) leaders. Thanks Jennifer for making us laugh.

Regards
Cédric

2009/9/24 Jennifer Hulett <jennife...@pmclusters.com>

[John Maloney]

Hi Cédric –

 

Thanks for the inventory and amusing commentary.

 

The reaction to stock and customary PR language is emblematic of the growth and maturation of the PM market. Concerns over a routine PR slug also sharply pinpoints the unfortunate (but necessary) and widening market divide and shakeout.

 

Leadership in this context precisely means those firms that are best creating and communicating our shared imagination for prediction markets. They are the ones with the stronger management teams and crystal clear value propositions.

 

Your leaders below understand and honor the dignity of diversity to PM adoption. They respect the critical importance of PM community to growth. They comprehend the benefits of authentic conversation to innovation. Their shared focus is pull-thru for their offerings. They are active in open communities and create buzz. They are quite simply and continuously driving the prediction markets, collective intelligence and forecasting narrative to new heights.

 

These leaders are capturing our imagination while simultaneously building great pipelines, robust deal flow and a strong customer base for themselves. IMO, your list, with the addition of a few others, are the leaders. They are focused on achieving prosperous outcomes for their stakeholders. Period.

 

On the flip side, are overweening chartheads and technicians. They are oblivious to the complex social dimension of transformational PM leadership. There are ignorant to the social issues and how to overcome complex barriers to deployment, diffusion and adoption of PMs. Their narrow-band notion of leadership concerns control, measurement and management. They are arrogant and indifferent to community. They too often shun active, open collaboration. They attempt to pull down others that do not fit their strictly limited, techie world view. They take umbrage to the notion of leadership simply because they don’t understand it. They don’t know what they don’t know.

 

Remember, prediction markets are no longer a curious academic backwater. The techies and charties have lost control. It drives them crazy! It is a normal and encouraging stage of technology market maturation.

 

Take an axiom from here in Silicon Valley: technicians, developers and thought leaders make terrible business managers. We need ‘em and love ‘em (and pay ‘em a lot), it’s just that they are not leaders. Most often they lack business decorum, have little respect and zero humility. After >25ys as a successful software entrepreneur and enterprise leader, I’ve seen a lot. Patterns emerge. Trust me, unless they wise up, these folks are on the fast-track to oblivion.

 

Cordially,

 

John