Got an idea to improve life in New Orleans? Enter PitchNOLA and you could win $1,000 to help make it a reality. Budding entrepreneurs have about a month to submit entries to PitchNOLA 2011, an “elevator-pitch” competition for ventures designed to effect positive social or environmental change in New Orleans. PitchNOLA is run by the [...]
Yesterday, Globalstar hit the company’s milestone in exceeding 100 Louisiana jobs with the company’s headquarter relocation from Silicon Valley to Covington. One year after announcing the move to Louisiana, the company now employs 114 direct jobs. Globalstar, which recently raised $38 Million and invested in travel time forecaster TrafficCast International, is on track to reach [...]
Only a few weeks old, NOLADex.org has become New Orleans’ top image-rich, digital rolodex of the many talented people in New Orleans creative, startup, and tech communities. NOLADex launched at BarCamp NOLA and was created as the conference’s Hack Day Project. We sat down with two of NOLADex’s creators, Matthew Shwery and Matt Tritico, to get [...]
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: PourLiving To Launch At White Linen Night – PourLiving, the new daily deal startup for drink and nightlife specials, is launching this weekend at White Linen night. Anticipation is high, with [...]
PourLiving, the new daily deal startup for drink and nightlife specials, is launching this weekend at White Linen night. Anticipation is high, with over 300 people attended their pre-launch party in July. PourLiving co-founder and CEO Jay Jayakrishnan fills us in on what we can expect: SBN: There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding PourLiving [...]
Net2NO is having its first Hack Day event in August in the New Orleans IP Building, hosted by 4.0 Schools. Its a great opportunity to meet people and build some cool stuff! Net2NO (pronounced “NetSquared New Orleans”) is known as the “granddaddy tech and startup community” in New Orleans. Founded in 2008 as a way [...]
Louisiana Tech is nearing the completion of Tech Pointe, the first multi-tenant facility on its new Enterprise Campus. Enterprise Campus is an addition to the main campus and will serve as a home for high-tech companies looking to use the intellectual and research strengths of the university. Tech Pointe is a 42,000 s/f, multi-tenant facility [...]
Yesterday, CAP Technologies founder and President Edward Daigle announced an $8.1 million capital investment for a metal coatings facility in Denham Springs that will lead to 43 new direct jobs with an average salary of $52,000 a year, plus benefits — and an estimated 60 new indirect jobs, creating a total of more than 100 [...]
Rebirth Financial, the New Orleans-based person-to-business lending marketplace that recently secured nearly $400,000 for NOLA Brewing, announced today that it was selected to present at the finance industry’s premier innovation conference- FinovateFall – in New York, September 20-21. Rebirth Financial has a new financial technology breakthrough that it plans to demonstrate to 1,000 financial industry [...]
“Creativity is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration” – Thomas Edison In the corporate world, there’s a standard ladder to climb to get to the top. In the world of entrepreneurship, there is a similar ladder to climb. Entrepreneurs should start with small ideas and learn how to execute those ideas. Learn how to gain traction, [...]
