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Is Video the Next Frontier for NFTs?
5 ways non-fungible tokens can impact the video industry Digital art has been the primary driver behind the current NFT craze. However, NFTs have been issued for a variety of assets (such as collectibles, access rights tokens, and even financial contracts) for a...
On the Air Digitally
Hosting a Show in the era of Podcasts, Clubhouse Rooms, and Livestreaming "On the air," whether recorded video, live, producing a podcast, or a dialing it in, you are a “host.” In this era of Clubhouse, podcasts, and Livestreams, “hosting" is a skill more important...
Dell for Startups
Dell is a name synonymous with Austin and Texas Innovation. While our startup scenes are booming, now, the history and experience in this part of the world with technology, in entrepreneurship, is astounding - Texas Instruments invented the calculator here...
NFTBooks? Here’s Why to Buy Them
On the 21st March 2021, WIP PUBLISHING launched its first market offering: the NFTBook Genesis Tokens. The aim? To bring NFTs and publishing together. I admit my frequent encounters with general members of the public outside of this world to be consistently...
Celebrities + Investments: Will SPACs help Artists Invest in Startups?
What do JAY-Z, Shaquille O’Neal, Ciara, Serena Williams, Steph Curry and Colin Kaepernick all have in common? They are all celebrities who are involved in SPACs.
Jem Aswad, Music News Writer, and Pop Culture Expert
Jem Aswad launched Variety’s music section with executive music editor Shirley Halperin in April 2017, has held senior posts at Billboard, MTV News, Spin, Time Out New York, and CMJ as well as Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Caroline Records, and ASCAP.
Presenting Startups from our Fifth Collective Cohort
Meet the amazing startups from our fifth Collective Cohort.
NFTs – WTH Are They?
The virtual gold rush of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in early 2021 rapidly brought this new digital asset out of obscurity and into the mainstream. It seems like NFT's emerged from the depths of the internet onto everyone's newsfeed, though they'd been around on the...
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
I'd like to do a songOf great social and political importIt goes like this Houston Tech Rodeo is upon us and in a quick fire QA alongside InnovationMap's Natalie Harms and Mercury Fund's Heath Butler, I dropped Janis Joplin when asked about my favorite Houstonite. Now...
Susan Paley’s Making Beats for Sneakers
Susan Paley’s company DropLabs has engineered a new way for us to experience and listen to music, with haptic sneakers.