On the heels of the recent dismal unemployment report and data showing that new firms are growing slower and staying smaller, the Kauffman Foundation presented a collection of broad policy recommendations last week at the National Press Club in Washington. The Startup Act is a narrowly targeted but comprehensive set of ideas aimed at jump-starting [...]
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host for the first time the LSU iOS Application Boot Camp August 1-12 (10 day camp; not including weekends) on the LSU Campus. This new educational experience offers LSU undergraduates the opportunity to gain knowledge while enhancing their entrepreneurial spirit. Participants will work in groups to create [...]
The Idea Village, one of the top startup acclerators in New Orleans, is now accepting applications for its seed accelerator program, the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge (IVEC). IVEC offers a six-month accelerator program to high-impact, scalable startups, complete with one-on-one coaching from established entrepreneurs, local and national networking, up to $200,000 startup capital, and training [...]
Yesterday, Gov. Bobby Jindal joined Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) Head of Worldwide Quality Assurance Mike Robinson to break ground on the 94,000-square-foot Louisiana Digital Media Center that eventually will be home to 600 video game development workers and LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology. EA, the video game company that produces titles like The Sims™, [...]
Startups experience small but significant milestones in their early days. Like the proverbial framed “first dollar” that hangs by a small business’s cash register, these milestones represent significant moments in the birthing of a new venture. The Startup Open competition recognizes and celebrates these milestones. Called “startup moments,” these milestones range from incorporating a business [...]
NuMe Health, the New Orleans biotechnology company developing prebiotics for disease prevention, closed its series A-1 financing round and hired Dean P. Stull, PhD, as chief executive officer. The $675,000 financing was led by BVM Capital LLC. The funds from the financing will be used primarily to support corporate and product development as the company [...]
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: Audiosocket Launches Music as a Service™; Featured on Tech Crunch and Mashable – New Orleans-based music licensing startup Audiosocket today launched Music as a Service™ — their new service to [...]
Have you ever seen a custom logo or personalized golf ball on the green? Well, there’s a good chance it came from Golfballs.com, a Lafayette-based company which sells a wide variety of name brand golf balls, personalized golf balls, custom logo golfballs, and other golf accessories. Allison Good caught up with Tom Cox, the founder [...]
New Orleans StartupDigest Life is too short to work at a boring company. Apply to be a StartupDigest VIP member here. Good Monday Mornin’ I hope everyone is staying cool this summer. We’re right around the corner from Saints getting kicked off and an uptick in the startup scene calendar. This week I wanted to shout [...]
It is time to implement new methods to shake our economy out of this lingering spell of slow growth (a disappointing 2% rate) and high unemployment (hovering around 9%). And while the large federal budget deficit does not leave much room for implementing more traditional economic remedies, the Kauffman Foundation—at a press conference this morning here [...]
