Comments on: Liveblogging from Markets for Technology Conference http://blog.shoeboxed.com/liveblogging-from-markets-for-technology-conference/191/ Discussing tax prep, expense reports, receipts, contact management and other topics that individuals and small businesses care about. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dan http://blog.shoeboxed.com/liveblogging-from-markets-for-technology-conference/191/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Dan Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:22 +0000 http://blog.shoeboxed.com/liveblogging-from-markets-for-technology-conference/191/#comment-340 They've talked a lot about how few innovations actually end up getting funded or even partially funded. Shoeboxed has certainly made it a long way since 2006, and we're obsessed with our investors. It sure is a validation, though, that the innovations that Shoeboxed has created are worth something, and that we expect them to keep improving and adding value to people's lives. They’ve talked a lot about how few innovations actually end up getting funded or even partially funded. Shoeboxed has certainly made it a long way since 2006, and we’re obsessed with our investors. It sure is a validation, though, that the innovations that Shoeboxed has created are worth something, and that we expect them to keep improving and adding value to people’s lives.

]]> By: Dan http://blog.shoeboxed.com/liveblogging-from-markets-for-technology-conference/191/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Dan Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:21:39 +0000 http://blog.shoeboxed.com/liveblogging-from-markets-for-technology-conference/191/#comment-339 According to the panelists, these are the key impediments to the growth of IP markets: 1. Fear of transacting because you don't know the future value of IP. 2. Few derivative markets that are known when transacting. 2. Not all information is available. Hard to trust what other people say about their IP. Lack of mechanisms to establish a fair price. 3. Ideas have a potential for value, but not necessarily value. Prospective market. 4. Since so many innovations fail to become commercially viable, the risk is really the most prohibitive factor in making this a pure market. 5. Innovations are not all the same. You don't have the same efficiency that you have in financial markets where the whole value is consolidated in the price Wow, this is a lot more theoretical than I was expecting. According to the panelists, these are the key impediments to the growth of IP markets:

1. Fear of transacting because you don’t know the future value of IP.
2. Few derivative markets that are known when transacting.
2. Not all information is available. Hard to trust what other people say about their IP. Lack of mechanisms to establish a fair price.
3. Ideas have a potential for value, but not necessarily value. Prospective market.
4. Since so many innovations fail to become commercially viable, the risk is really the most prohibitive factor in making this a pure market.
5. Innovations are not all the same. You don’t have the same efficiency that you have in financial markets where the whole value is consolidated in the price

Wow, this is a lot more theoretical than I was expecting.

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