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Start-Up’s Software Goes to Employees for Company Forecasts

Source:NYT -- http://bit.ly/Xq7GH -- June 25, 2009, 1:39 pm

Start-Up’s Software Goes to Employees for Company Forecasts

By Claire Cain Miller

To get the best predictions about when your company’s latest product will ship or how it will sell, you might try asking your employees — anonymously. A prediction market start-up, Crowdcast, began selling corporate forecasting software on Thursday that does just that.