BLADE Studios, the full-service sound recording studio in Shreveport, opened its doors this month. BLADE is a full service studio featuring studio rental, music production and engineer services, post production facilities, rehearsal spaces, and film audio services including ADR, Foley and scoring. The studio’s founder, Brady Blade, Jr., says that the studio is “on par [...]
GoSolarUSA (PinkSheets:GSLO), the New Orleans-based company that develops new solar energy technologies, announced today that its initial shipment of Volt Solar Charger accessories for the Apple iPhone is en route from the manufacturer in China to the United States. The Volt Solar Charger is a new detachable smartphone accessory designed to dramatically extend the Apple [...]
New Digital Media Facility at LSU expected to result in 200+ jobs within 3 to 4 years. And the state’s digital media tax credit success continues to grow. Last Friday, Electronic Arts Inc. announced their plan to significantly expand employment at their North American Test Center, or NATC, including the construction of a $30 million [...]
The New Orleans Startup Digest is a bi-weekly email newsletter curated by Chris Schultz, Founder of Voodoo Ventures and Flatsourcing and co-founder of Launch Pad. This post is the newsletter published on 4/18/11. New Orleans StartupDigest Good Monday Mornin’! OK, so who didn’t go to a crawfish boil this weekend? Spring is definitely here and festival [...]
Mr. Albert R. Lepage, MBA ’71, was honored as this year’s Tulane Most Distinguished Entrepreneur at the Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs gala on April 8th at the Audubon Tea Room. Mr. Lepage is chairman of Lepage Bakery, which was founded in 1903. He is active in many organizations and boards, and currently serves as chairman [...]
The infrastructure supporting HollyWood South and Louisiana’s movie industry continues to grow with the opening of Millennium Studios this month in Shreveport. Millennium Studios opened with two sound stages totaling more than 25,000 square feet, over 14,000 square feet of office space, hair/ makeup room, construction mill, and much more. They also have a full service [...]
Dr. Lauren Lebeau (far right), Xenia Kachur (far left), Dung Nguyen and Dennis Maiocchi of Pathostat, LLC were recipients of the $50,000 cash award for placing first in the 11th Annual Tulane Business Plan Competition. The University of Arizona team are developers of a patent-pending medical device for use during cancer surgery which enables the [...]
The Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans (SENO) is currently recruiting 10 creative problem solvers tackling critical New Orleans problems in the impact areas of Blight/Housing, Healthy Food Systems, Infrastructure/Transportation, Education, or Any New Orleans-Specific Issue. Social entrepreneurs are innovators who are passionate about solving what others may see as intractable social problems. They play a [...]
This article was originally written by SKIP DESCANT of The Advocate. Published: Apr 10, 2011. Sure, high school football stars eyeing LSU’s legendary athletic program can make the trip to campus and get the razzle-dazzle recruitment tour — and many of them will. But the gates of LSU don’t have to be their first intro [...]
Last month New Orleans-based Republic Business Credit closed a $30 million senior secured facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). Coupled with its recently announced Institutional capital raise, the first tranche of a $30 million equity raise putting Republic in a strong capital and liquidity position. Republic provides [...]
