The main problem is that the NZ guys, after visiting the English site, didn't just copy some of the concept (a big who cares, especially after the BoxPark guys showed them around so that Christchurch could use some of the ideas) but rather that the idiots promoting it here in Christchurch kept going on about its being the "first in the world", which was complete nonsense. Folks kept quietly pointing out other similar implementations in Asia, but the promoters didn't much notice.
Not nice that BoxPark is suing over it, but given the absurd claims made by the Christchurch promoters, I can hardly blame them. I'd also not be surprised if they couldn't be appeased simply by having the Christchurch touts put up a few notices acknowledging BoxPark's contribution rather than maintaining the untenable "First in the World" claims.
My favourite one of these is a one-day-a-week restaurant in Wellington. They were closed Mondays, 'till the owner met an Ethiopean immigrant who'd always wanted to run a restaurant. Now it's Thai 6 days a week, Ethiopean on Mondays. The only Ethiopean restaurant in New Zealand, best I'm aware.
It's also fairly common among NZ craft brewers: the bigger guys with the equipment rent out their equipment some of the time to startups.
I'm sure the clips sites are already using advertising as revenue stream. But that pays the clip sites, not the content producers. I still think we'll wind up with a segmented market with lower tier product having commodity status and being shown on the clips sites, and a small number of celebrity performers who can earn money either through touring or by selling off props from their performances and such.
Some really neat ideas in the comments here though for other business models.
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Failure of attribution
The main problem is that the NZ guys, after visiting the English site, didn't just copy some of the concept (a big who cares, especially after the BoxPark guys showed them around so that Christchurch could use some of the ideas) but rather that the idiots promoting it here in Christchurch kept going on about its being the "first in the world", which was complete nonsense. Folks kept quietly pointing out other similar implementations in Asia, but the promoters didn't much notice.
Not nice that BoxPark is suing over it, but given the absurd claims made by the Christchurch promoters, I can hardly blame them. I'd also not be surprised if they couldn't be appeased simply by having the Christchurch touts put up a few notices acknowledging BoxPark's contribution rather than maintaining the untenable "First in the World" claims.
Spreading the fixed costs
My favourite one of these is a one-day-a-week restaurant in Wellington. They were closed Mondays, 'till the owner met an Ethiopean immigrant who'd always wanted to run a restaurant. Now it's Thai 6 days a week, Ethiopean on Mondays. The only Ethiopean restaurant in New Zealand, best I'm aware.
It's also fairly common among NZ craft brewers: the bigger guys with the equipment rent out their equipment some of the time to startups.
Advertising
I'm sure the clips sites are already using advertising as revenue stream. But that pays the clip sites, not the content producers. I still think we'll wind up with a segmented market with lower tier product having commodity status and being shown on the clips sites, and a small number of celebrity performers who can earn money either through touring or by selling off props from their performances and such.
Some really neat ideas in the comments here though for other business models.