Showing posts with label entrepreneurial market design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrepreneurial market design. Show all posts
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Vacuum-tube valley

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  Silicon valley didn't transition directly from fruit orchards to silicon chips .  Vacuum tubes took center stage for a while. Here'...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Scott Kominers on entrepreneurial market design (podcast)

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  Scott Kominers is interviewed on the Things to Know podcast, about the arc of his career, and how it led him to market design, and crypto,...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Market design, redesigned (in startups and university labs)

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Market design is evolving, and new ways of organizing it are being explored.  In my post yesterday, I talked about the early work on school ...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Financing drug discovery

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 Bloomberg has a nice story about financial innovation in funding drug discovery startups: Out of Grief, MIT’s Andrew Lo Invented a Better W...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Cognomos--course allocation software by Eric Budish et al.

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Cognomos is a site that will put school administrators in touch with the designers of  Wharton's Course Match, which I've blogge...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Reading for marketplace designers from Andreessen Horowitz

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Scott Kominers forwards this interesting reading list (which includes a nice summary of market design by him and Tom Eisenmann): Reading ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Amazon as a safe market-space for Hasidic business-NYT

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The NY Times has the story about how Amazon is a good place to do business, if you don't like to leave home: How Amazon Has Transform...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Economics in the Age of Algorithms, Experiments, and A.I., in Seattle

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The NABE Tech Economics Conference , Career Fair and Expo will be on the theme   Economics in the Age of Algorithms, Experiments, and A.I. ...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Sven Seuken appointed Chief Economist of BandwidthX

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Here's the press release: BandwidthX Appoints Sven Seuken as Chief Economist Prof. Seuken’s appointment underlines the importance of...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Crowdfunding For IVF

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NPR has a story which involves a combination of very modern transactions: Please, Baby, Please: Some Couples Turn To Crowdfunding For IVF ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Genos seeks to make a market for personal genetic (whole exome) information

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Genos is a new company that seeks to make a market for personal genetic information--it wants to both sell sequencing services to individu...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Organjet versus regional transplant lists

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Forbes discusses the unequal waiting times for deceased donor organs caused by the fact that transplant waiting lists are organized regiona...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Peter Cramton is a Chief Economist

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Peter Cramton puts on a new entrepreneurial market design hat, with Rivada Networks Rivada Networks Names Peter Cramton as Chief Econ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Google buys Timeful from Yoav Shoham and Dan Ariely

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Here's Timeful .  Here's Dan . Here's Yoav: This Stanford professor just sold his second startup to Google in less than 5 years...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications (AMMA 2015)

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Scott Kominers writes: "Lirong Xia and I are co-organizing a new iteration of the Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and The...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Deceased donor waiting times, and OrganJet

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Here's an article by Daniela Lamas in the Atlantic on waiting times by region, and how to register at a transplant center outside of yo...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Making a market for "dark Wi-Fi"

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Just as AirBnb makes a market for underused bedrooms, and Lyft  makes a market for underused passenger seats in cars, BandwidthX seeks to ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Data for job matching might come from new sources--even video games

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Catherine Rampell at the NY Times has the story, focusing on the startup Knack:  Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Venture capital looks at the design of marketplaces

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Not long ago I had a chance to listen to some interesting presentations at a conference sponsored by Greylock Partners, about businesses th...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What happens when Big Data meets human resources?

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That's the question asked by this recent article in the Atlantic  by Don Peck, which focuses on using nontraditional data to match work...