By the numbers: On launching askmarkets.com

Triggered by the latest world-changing post by the start-up-artist Guy Kawasaki, I’d like to share some thoughts on the askmarkets.com experience till now: 0. Zero venture capitalists pitched, zero funding, zero debt created. 0. Zero development cost, just the hands-on passionate work of us, the cofounders. €450.80. The total amount of money spent on legal …

Introductory paper on forecasting and prediction markets published

A somehow old introductory paper of mine on prediction markets is finally published today in the latest issue of the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development journal. The paper, entitled as Prediction markets: an information aggregation perspective to the forecasting problem is available in my homepage, while its abstract is presented here:  Lately, …

Incorporating Uncertainty in Optimal Investment Decisions

A paper of mine, with my good friends and colleagues Athanasios Rentizelas and Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, on optimising project investment decisions with the use of Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation, is published today in the latest issue of the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development. The paper is available to download in my …

interview en español

A magazine from Guatemala publishes some quotes of an interview with me on prediction markets. Non-artificial translation is welcome.

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets Workshop starts today

In a few hours, the workshop The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications starts at Palm Desert, California. The quality of presenters is excellent and the workshop has succeeded in attracting high level contributions. The program and complete list of papers to be presented are available here, while directly related to …

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I gave a presentation earlier today at the 2nd Greek National Conference of Mechanical & Electrical Engineers. The speech introduced the concept of prediction markets, as long as market applications in logistics, to a multidisciplinary audience. The presentation triggered a lot of interest and more than supportive reactions. The introductory paper (in greek), entitled as …

Buck Up, Vol.2 is out

During the last months I was happy enough to envision and create from scratch, by working together with a few close friends, the Greek Federation of Junior Enterprises Jade Hellas. The concept was simple: create a platform that will inform greek youths on junior entrepreneurship and motivate further interest bring together people with common start-up …