Mergers and acquisitions forecasts can also be crowdsourcing: Mergerize set the force of the people to predict the near future

Yesterday, in product Hunt saw a product called Mergerize, this product is very interesting, it wants to use the power of crowdsourcing to do the recent potential merger of the start-up company forecast.

On Mergerize, "analysts" can submit their forecasts of which start-up companies will be merged by big companies in the near future, mergerize so that they can be counted to visually show which companies are expected to be the most likely to be merged. For example, there are now 10 people on mergerize predicting that Foursquare will be acquired, perhaps next year, while buyers are among Apple, Yelp, Twitter and Yahoo, and the estimated purchase price is about $1 billion trillion.

What is the value of Mergerize's crowdsourcing? In fact, Mergerize is an MVP developed by the Estimize team in a week, which we have reported – a crowdsourcing investment community with "data" that everyone can submit to their own forecasts of earnings from listed companies, thereby leveraging the power of the crowd to produce an effect beyond Wall Street securities analysts. In the stock market, the judgment of a stock's tendency to be good or bad comes from the "anticipation" of the company's future business development. Mergers and acquisitions "is a very important corporate behavior, will affect a company's future line of business and trends, so Mergerize is a collection of analysts" expected "products, will be a good addition to estimize.

The value of mergerize, of course, is more than that. Leigh Drogen, founder of Estimize, wrote in Mergerize Bovenri that his expectation of the ultimate form of mergerize was not a rumour-shop, and he wanted to present the expectations of which company should be bought and who should be spent. This objective presentation of the multitude of ideas will produce value. In the future, perhaps big companies will go to Mergerize to see what the public thinks they should buy and make up for their own business, thus helping their own mergers and acquisitions decisions.

However, Drogen also said that at present Mergerize is still a relatively rough MVP, an experiment, the future will develop into what is not controllable, there are mechanisms need to be perfected, such as he said perhaps using product Hunt's voting mechanism, will make the forecast data more objective and credible.