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Epic Games, through its Unreal Engine and extremely popular Battle Royale gameFortnite, is a company leading the Metaverse forward. In its first two years, Fortnitemade Epic Games over $9 billion in revenue. Epic Games recently announced a $1billion funding round to support the company's long-term vision for the Metaverse.

NFTs have been making headlines, but they are more than their use-case trends.Like many blockchain technologies, NFTs can be considered solutions in search of a problem. With behavioral design and consumer motivations driving the innovation space, we’re seeing a rising interest around which innovation challenges could be solved using NFTs. Here’s... See more

The State of FANGEach of the FANG companies is in a similar position in their respective industries: they haven’t so much disrupted incumbents as they have subsumed them:Facebook: The late David Carr, who first broke the news about Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative back in 2014, worried that “media companies would essentially be serfs in a... See more

What makes an NFT specialAn NFT is a digital object — some computer code and data — that conveys ownership of something. The property could be online, like virtual real estate in some digital world or a special outfit in a video game. It might be something real: actual real estate, a painting, or seat at a concert. Then again, an NFT might be some... See more

I share Professor Clayton Christensen’s consternation about the overuse of the term “disruption.” In this month’s issue of the Harvard Business Review, Christensen and his co-authors Michael Raynor and Rory McDonald write:Disruption theory is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. Despite broad dissemination, the theory’s core concepts... See more

3. Grant/Launchpad DAOIn a grant DAO, members of the community donate funds into the grant pool, and they vote on how to allocate and distribute the funds. These DAOs are in charge of funding new innovative DeFi projects. The organizations that need funding just need to submit applications. An excellent example of a Grant DAO is the Moloch DAO. The... See more

Why is Web3 a Lucrative Investment Opportunity?When users are owners, they have decision-making power and this is the reason so many forward-thinking investors and innovators, including Untapped Ventures, are betting big on Web3 technologies.Untapped is a Venture Studio dedicated to creating products and services to help people live their best... See more