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Virtual Goods Summit & The Coming Boom

This past June a group of notable entrepreneurs, VC’s and other tech industry folk got together to talk about the “emerging market opportunities for virtual goods and economies”. Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners one of the VC investors in Facebook and others really break down the astounding numbers in the Are Virtual Goods the Next Big Business Model? video below:


the full program and video links are available . When you mesh this with the revolution in desktop manufacturing and the coming boom in virtual property you’ll see why you need to prepare yourself.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 at 10:56 am and is filed under Business, Metaverse, TVIR, Virtual Currency. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Virtual Goods Summit & The Coming Boom”

  1. csven Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    I’d started watching this shortly after it was posted but didn’t finish and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.

    And btw, re: Susan’s question regarding why content producers (and I’m referring here to individuals/modders/etc as opposed to development houses) aren’t more interested, *we* are. But the keyholders aren’t opening the gates. I got into it more in-depth over on BusinessWeek’s design blog for anyone interested: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/09/xbox_wii_ps3–g.html

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