Sponsor post: Virtual Goods: New Monetization Opportunities?

Virtual Goods are quickly becoming a powerful new online monetization model, with users buying gifts, swords, clothes and other digital items to enhance their experience in social networks and games. Today this market is already $1 billion in the U.S. alone, and is expected to increase 80 percent next year. With such runaway growth, where are the opportunities? What are the best monetization strategies? On Dec. 8 at a special joint event of VLAB and SVASE in Santa Clara, Calif., come hear bold entrepreneurs talk about their business models and the online ecosystem for virtual goods and find out!