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March 31, 2005 by Dane Carlson | 1 Comment

Dana Blankenhorn on the need for entrepreneurs to come in and figure how to make money off all the new technology being created for free:

In the open source world we’re creating new technologies, techniques and choices faster than we can monetize them.

The challenge is to find ways to bring in enough advertising, sponsorship, event, and subscriber revenue to turn hobbies into careers. Without fertilizer, plants die, and money is fertilizer. Volunteers will burn out without it, some quickly, some more slowly, but all surely. Or, as entrepreneur Max Bialystock says in The Producers, “Money is Honey.” That’s really what entrepreneurs do. They use their imagination. They bring buyers and sellers together. They turn what’s neat into something profitable. They create value where there were only flowers before.

via Jon Lowder.

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