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Branson said the 800 passengers who have signed up to the $250,000 a ticket space adventure remain supportive of Virgin Galactic, and revealed two more have signed up and paid for their flights in a show of support.
Of course, Seatwave has a whole bunch of competitors: There's TicketMaster (IAC), StubHub (eBay) and the likes of UK-based Viagogo, another well funded startup in the aftermarket ticket space whose backers include tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.
A number of event and ticketing startups have come out of Asia's startup world, such as Peatix in Japan, but Bodhisuwan told us that Thailand's event and ticket space is "ripe for disruption" while Event Pop is doing more than just ticketing or events.
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Competition: Movietickets.com and Fandango are the Goliaths of the online ticketing space.
5 p.m. 1) GET YOUR TICKETS As part of its anniversary celebration, Lincoln Center has remade the grim Harmony Atrium just southeast of the main campus (Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets) into a visitors' center and ticketing space named for David Rubenstein (that's what you get when you give $10 million).
On top of that come tickets, space to entertain and impress clients, and the marketing value of having the bank's name emblazoned around a stadium.The bank claims to make $3 of profit for every $1 it spends on sports marketing, a rate of return that may look too good to be true (if it can make 300%, it should do nothing else).
We have not seen a hell of a lot of innovation in the ticketing space for a while.
But over the past year, competition in the last-minute mobile ticketing space heated up with the rise of Applauze, YPlan, SongKick, and StubHub Music.
A consolidation in the advance movie ticketing space is happening today, with Fandango's announcement that it's acquiring rival MovieTickets.com for an undisclosed sum.
But it's also seeing increasing competition from a number of smaller startups that have recently entered into the ticketing space, including companies like Applauze, Yplan, and Gametime.
CEO and co-founder Andrew Dreskin has lofty aspirations and tells me "A changing of the guard is afoot, the fundamentals of the ticketing space are experiencing great change".
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