Teaching Prediction Markets

I gave an introductory lecture on prediction markets earlier today, in the context of a undergraduate course in Logistics at NTUA’s School of Mechanical Engineering. The feedback and responses on running some hands-on experiments (you can guess the software) were really great, I expect that this will be repeated in a few days when I’m …

He who writes a lot, has little to say.

He who writes a lot, has little to say.from a discussion with Professor George Cosmetatos, member of my PhD thesis committee, on the extent of my dissertation

Conjuring Startups out of Thin Air, a presentation at Stream08

A couple of days ago, George Kasselakis, Dimitris Athanasiadis and I had the privilege to lead a discussion at the Stream08 unconferene. Together with Jennifer Schenker of BusinessWeek, we attempted -quite successfully!- to trigger the conversation about innovation in Europe, trying to figure out some best practices for enabling entrepreneurship excellence. The presentation is embedded …