“Now we’re going to talk about money”–more ideas

some other ideas from the panel that seemed of some importance:

-If you don’t have a revenue model yet, there is no need to worry about it now as long as you manage to create a community around a theme or an issue (to me, that is somewhat redolent of the bubble?)
-It’s wrong to think about how users can pay back for your services in purely monetary terms; their in-kind contributions may take the forms of services (like help with accounting, if they are experts, etc)–there should be a way to make such contributions possible.
-The ultimate product everyone is trying to create is Ebay for content, where different bits can be assessed and traded based on their value.
-It doesn’t really matter if your product is tangible or intangible; you should really think about ways of selling tangible goods every time users access your intangible ones.
-It’s hard to find the right balance between expert and user-generated content, but even the latter, as some panelists suggested, should be fully compensated, if not in monetary terms, then at least in kind. Social capital may be more important for some of them than the financial one.