[eschneider]

I spent a fair bit of time researching this space as it seemed like an obviously good startup idea. It turns out that almost everyone who you think would benefit from a better system have already been coopted by the current players. It's definitely an uphill battle.

[zwkrt]

To put it into perspective I work for two years at Amazon to try to create a competitor to Ticketmaster. Our ticket sales infrastructure wasn’t quite as polished as Ticketmaster is but it was passable. What killed the product though is that we couldn’t get any reasonably sized contracts in the United States. So even a company with the motivation to burn capital the size of Amazon couldn’t swing competing with Ticketmaster.

[eschneider]

You have to look at it this way: Ticketmaster's job isn't so much "selling tickets", as being the "designated bad guys" so artists and venues don't have to be. Everyone gets their cut.

[nunez]

Now that you mention it, Apple has the best shot at this given their relationships