
DIGITAL SALES PLATFORMS - PART OF FORCES SHAPING NEW BUSINESS MODELS
Consumer Product Markets are caught in a whirlwind of industry forces that are changing how Emerging Innovation and New Product Market Development is accomplished within the guidelines of acceptable fiduciary principles. Some Digital Platforms are reshaping the way innovation comes to market (with little regard to Copyright-Patent Infringement) taking some top projects off the table. Several New venture organizations are helping finance sales companies’ transformation into unregulated multi-level influencer enterprises and turning away responsible investment banking opportunities that could change the way we invest in and defend the entitlements to Intellectual Properties (IP).
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The key to success is to be able to connect business developers with regional investor-distributors that secure future sales of emerging innovations and to mutually manage the roll-out of new products. In other words – empower innovators and financiers to build their businesses together (each having the proverbial skin-in-the-game) so that they can fund expansion programs into new venues with traditional bank financing that securitizes the IP that protects the revenue sharing entitlements of the innovations.
Recently, a number of digital platforms and sales groups are now in the business of developing proprietary products and delivering them directly to the consumer through territorial venue licenses and franchise programs — and there will be others. The success of the future business model dictates, for future players of this new world, is to maintain leverage by developing, producing and owning their own distribution networks and IP.

An interesting pro-active response, by the decision makers of several avant-garde new product development companies, in the face of the digital platform sales impact, is to move toward revenue sharing financial instruments wrapped around territorial venue franchises that yield a portion of the gross sales revenues of new product sales within the venue.