Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories Silicon Bayou News published in the last seven days: PollBob: New NOLA Startup Helps You Quickly Discover Opinions – PollBob is a social polling iPhone application and website that lets you survey your friends, gather feedback in real-time, and earn [...]
The Baton Rouge startup world keeps gaining momentum, this time with a win by LSU undergrads. A team of five current and former LSU Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute (SEI) Fellows placed second in the 1st Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Startup Simulation Challenge. The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization, CEO, hosted the event, which took place over a two-month period. [...]
A creative startup is about to hit the scene. 300seats, one of the winners at Louisiana’s first Startup Weekend this past April, will launch June 11 with a showing of two independent films in downtown Baton Rouge. 300seats is a new Arts + Cultural hub, which will provide an independent film theater, art and [...]
While the absence of venture capital in Louisiana is often cited as the biggest barrier to growing the high-tech startup eco-system, for the first time since recession hit in 2008, national venture capital performance broadly improved over last quarter according to a study by Cambridge Associates for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Although the [...]
Now even the White House is taking notice of the developing technology scene on the Silicon Bayou. Louis Reis, who graduated from Louisiana Tech last Saturday, is featured on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog as one of just 14 students in the country that graduated as a 2011 Grand Challenges [...]
The Baton Rouge startup scene has been quietly growing over the last two years, but this growth hasn’t been slow. Everywhere I look there seems to be progress, expansion, and growth and it is exciting to be a part of it. Entrepreneurs here come from diverse backgrounds and the ideas being generated are quite unique. [...]
Another big score for Louisiana, the people of Baton Rouge, and the state’s budding tech scene. Today, Louisiana and BitRaider CEO Royal O’Brien announced the Jacksonville, Fla.-based technology firm BitRaider will relocate to the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge. BitRaider is a technology licensing company that created a digital distribution delivery system which allows [...]
Louisiana startup Invoice ASAP is in the finals at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, and will compete this afternoon against five rivals such as San Francisco-based Ccloop. Invoice ASAP, the cloud-based invoice app that allows you to easily create and send professional invoices, estimates, sales orders and receipts, was voted as Tuesday’s favorite from the Startup [...]
The Louisiana Drupal Users Group (LaDUG) is planning something cool for July 9, 2011. They’ll be holding a Website Building Volunteer Day. In one day, they plan to build a Web site for a local charity or non-profit organization in a single day, using the powerful and popular web content management system, Drupal. Right now, [...]
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories Silicon Bayou News published in the last seven days: N.O. #1 On Forbes’ Top Cities For Information Jobs In The U.S. – The Silicon Bayou continues to advance and improve its economy, with digital media, biotech, and clean technology jobs [...]
