added by Sam Blumenthal and · updated 8d ago
What Makes IP Valuable?
- And so what you've ended up with, not surprisingly, is a few key players that happen to own the majority of the IP that is kind of a must have in this industry to have a product offering and a handful of distributors that have gotten scale on distribution of great user experiences like a Spotify, Amazon, a YouTube, whoever you might want to think a... See more
from Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music by Colossus
Sixian and added
- The longstanding struggles of digital media businesses drive home the fact that internet-native media requires a fundamentally different business approach. Monetizing content assumes that the value is held in the content itself. Under the physics of infinity – frictionless content creation and distribution – the marginal value of every additional a... See more
from Luxury Media
Devin Baker added
- Historically, most of our questions about the value of content have focused on the distribution side, rather than the production side. Today, the most interesting questions we can ask will focus on how content is made and maintained, and by whom. We’ve previously treated content as a first-copy cost problem, and have developed solutions like patent... See more
from Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Asparouhova
sari added
- Corporations have been fastidious when it comes to their intellectual property; after all, their IP is the lifeblood of the business. What’s fascinating about many of the crypto projects popping up is that they sacrifice copyright rights, granting everyone the opportunity to build with IP.
from Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos by Rex Woodbury
sari added
- So let's use video because I just think it's a great example. If you think about music and how you consume music, you actually consume catalog product a lot. I certainly do. And I think most consumers do. Songs that I've listened to once, I will listen to again and again, and again, at some point. With video, that's less the case. Once I watch seas... See more
from Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music by Colossus
Sixian added
There are a number of other qualities similar to trust that are difficult to copy, and thus become valuable in this network economy. I think the best way to examine them is not from the eye of the producer, manufacturer, or creator, but from the eye of the user. We can start with a simple user question: why would we ever pay for anything
... See morefrom Better Than Free by French
sari added
- Economics has historically focused on "goods" in the form of physical objects: production of food, manufacturing of widgets, buying and selling houses, and the like. Physical objects have some particular properties: they can be transferred, destroyed, bought and sold, but not copied... But on the internet, very different rules apply. Copying is che... See more
from Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond by Vitalik Buterin
sari added
It's true that some Intellectual Property (IP) in a core product or service at the heart of your offering can help your business valuation, but more than often it's an unnecessary distraction to your business focus, and one which may complicate a potential exit.
from Agencynomics by Spencer Gallagher