
(Whether it will eventually work no one knows, but the payoff could be so large, investors will take the risk.) If the product does work, and say we’ve developed a drug that cures a type of cancer, your only problem is how big is the licensing deal going to be – not about whether there will be customers. These are markets where it may take 5 or even 10 years to get a product out of the lab and into production. There’s a whole other set of markets where the risk is truly invention. In these markets it’s all about customer/market risk. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 is whether there is a customer and market for the product as spec’d.

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