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Cultivate Labs
Company blog · cultivatelabs.com/posts · on HN as adamaibusinessdata
Cultivate Labs is the company blog at cultivatelabs.com, writing about ai, business and data. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Commenters point to Cultivate Labs as a company working in AI forecasting and prediction markets, and cite it for the maths behind those markets. No specific writing from the site is discussed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cultivate Labs builds AI forecasting and sensemaking systems used by government, defense, finance, and research teams to keep their view of the world current.
What Hacker News says?
Cultivate Labs | Senior Rails Developer | Chicago, IL | Onsite | Full-Time Cultivate Labs is a Chicago-based company that helps large organizations crowdsource the wisdom of their employees to better predict future events, whether that’s a project milestone, sales target, or if an investment will pay off. We’re a self-funded team of 6, currently working with some of the largest and most influential organizations in…
Comment linking /hiring
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA? as a story · 64 points
HN discussionCultivate Labs (Formerly Inkling Markets YC W06) | Rails Engineer | Chicago, IL Cultivate Labs builds collective intelligence solutions like prediction markets and opinion polls for governments, large private organizations, and think tanks. Our mission is to quantify and amplify the voice of employees to better define ground truth and drive reality-based decision making. This role will touch all aspects of our devel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Can you crowdfund your way to a better culture at your company? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust wrote a blog post about Augur and its future challenges: https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/thoughts-on-augur I know - just another armchair hack, but I've been running a company that builds/runs prediction markets inside corporations for the past 12 years...
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on “Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace”Submitted Uber's Costly Fail in Germany Is Symptomatic of an Age-Old Problem in Companies as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGP has http://cultivatelabs.com in their bio, they're working directly in this space. Very interesting stuff. (And, looking at previous comments they're hiring)
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on “Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf]”Submitted Nation of Insecurity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe make prediction market software for companies to use internally: https://cultivatelabs.com/forecasts if you want to chat sometime.
Comment linking /forecasts
on “How to Tell Good Studies from Bad? Bet on Them”Submitted The resource companies overlook for innovation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting the production methodology follows Toyota. I blogged about the need for exactly this as I'm convinced in these kinds of situations there are employees working on these projects who know there are issues, but because of culture or pressure to launch, are never heard: https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/the-rise-of-anonymous-to...
Comment linking /posts/the-rise-of-anonymous-tough-love-and-not-a-moment-too-soon
on “The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max”Submitted Attempted Manipulation of a French Election Prediction Market: What We Learned as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm the co-founder of Cultivate Labs ( https://cultivatelabs.com ), which is based on a lot of the work I did at Inkling Markets (YC06). We’ve been working on prediction markets and other crowdsourced prediction mechanisms for awhile now, but have always just sold a platform to large companies to run internally. TinyCast is a "lite" / free version of the stuff we run with big co's and government agencies where we’ve…
Comment linking /posts/have-your-team-predict-your-kpi-s-so-you-can-actually-meet-your-kpi-s
on “Show HN: TinyCast – crowdsource with your team the likelihood of meeting metrics”Submitted How we're using prediction markets to predict our KPI's as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGovernment leaders and political policy advisors, intelligence agencies, hedge funds & quants, and large corporations doing crowdsourced forecasting for sure. That's probably why they haven't just been made illegal - the very policy makers are utilizing the data streams from this to predict the near-future to a decent degree. Companies like Cultivate Labs [1] go into the maths of it all but if you prefer videos Hype…
Comment linking /crowdsourced-forecasting-guide
on “Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war”Submitted The Circle of (Work) Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prediction Markets – Beginner to Intermediate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaming prediction markets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Today's Lack of Humility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blockchain Prediction Market Terminology 101 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flexible work arrangements are the future – is your company ready? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tying CEO Compensation to Stock Price Isn't Always Smart for Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey Companies: Just Start Asking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Budgeting: Introduce a Crowdsourced VC Model at Your Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding value in the much aligned “networking event” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Culture of Fear Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indian elections and US-based start up, Cultivate Labs, look to predict outcome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The one time planning with a crowd is better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top Tips for Prediction Market Beginners as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are Prediction Markets? Cultivate Labs Explains as a story · 1 points
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