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The Rise of Videogame Economies. The Newsonomics of Pricing 101. When the price of your digital product is zero, that’s about how much you learn about customer pricing.

The Newsonomics of Pricing 101

Now, both the pricing and the learning is on the upswing. The pay-for-digital content revolution is now fully upon us. Five years ago, only the music business had seen much rationalization, with Apple’s iTunes having bulled ahead with its new 99-cent order. Now, movies, TV shows, newspapers, and magazines are all embracing paid digital models, charging for single copies, pay-per-views, and subscriptions. From Hulu Plus to Netflix to Next Issue Media to Ongo to Press+ to The New York Times to Google Play to Amazon to Apple to Microsoft (buying into Nook this week), the move to paid media content is profound. Three Years of Kickstarter Projects - Graphic. The Road to Crowdfunding Hell - Daniel Isenberg. Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012.

The Road to Crowdfunding Hell - Daniel Isenberg

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool’s gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing “people-to-people power” and the “wisdom of crowds” to “democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs” in order to “create wealth and make things happen,” as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. As a savvy tech entrepreneur told me the other day, “I love crowdfunding: it is cheap money for me. I know it is not good for the investors.” That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. Gamification. In 90 Seconds. Welcome To Co.Create Nation. P&G to Slash $10 Billion in Costs Over Five Years. Big Data’s Impact in the World. Yup, Britain is a freelance nation too — Online Collaboration.