SmartUp is an intelligent database of stories and insights on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Click on the icons to search the different categories.
To write this story about the metaverse, I first had to tear myself away from reading Ready Player One, which is all about, well, the metaverse. Set in 2045, this prescient 2014 sci-fi novel describes a world in which, having…
Read More
Everyone’s talking about DAOs. We’ll get to the Whys and the Hows in this conversation (part three of our Web3 series) with media inventor Ron Martinez, but first we’ll start with the What. Susanna: What’s a DAO? Ron: DAO stands…
Read More
Susanna: Let’s talk about Web3. There’s an emerging 1-2-3 narrative for defining this exciting evolution. That is, Web1 was read, Web2 was write, and Web3 is own. Give us a sense of the progression from the early Web, particularly with…
Read More
Last week French President Emmanuel Macron gave his country two choices. Take Le jab or be Les miserables. France got the message: 1.3 million people quickly signed up to be vaccinated in a day. Why the rush? In a few…
Read More