From the Beyond Broadcast Conference

Beyond Broadcast Conference -- Listen and Post!

May 12 afternoon:

Investors like what they see in web 2.0:

growth

attractive models

-- "if they build it they will come..."

user value proposition

-- simple, effective, dynamic, entertaining and participatory

old biz models at risk/cash needs a home...

-- new, new media!

Evaluating opportunities:

Start up

team

idea

competition

time and cost to market

biz model not that important

valuation tight range

Later stage:

team

revenue

margins

growth

sustainability

visibility

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Where else but at an Internet conference would you hear presenters refer to Karl Marx and to John Locke!

This current panel is weighing:

how open to be: what content to let in, what content to aggregate and curate, what is the balance?

what is the effect on a brand of being open?

people rely on 'proxies' (Thanks Skip Pizzi, Microsoft) to filter their world. Can filters be open? How open?

May 12 morning:

Observations and quotes...

an embarrassment of niches... Jake Shapiro, PRX, talking about the potential of the participatory culture.

there is not junk... Bill Buzenberg of Minnesota Public Radio/APM talking about the content they get from listeners through their Public Insight Journalism project

global consciousness... David Liroff of WGBH, Boston, quoting Chardin