With the realization that the vitality of the American economy and strengthening of our nation begins at the local levels, New Orleans has been selected to be the pilot city for the Government Entrepreneur – In – Residence (EIR) program that will connect local entrepreneurs to the federal government. The program is part of President [...]
Last Friday the owner of a Naked Pizza location in the Boston area announced via his blog that one of their two locations is closing. Delivery, takeout, and catering operations from their Brighton, MA store will be merged with their second location in Brookline, MA. The spin on the story both in the blog post [...]
The following is a guest post written by Josh Miramant. Josh is the Program Director for EverFi, Inc., an education technology startup. He currently live in New Orleans and describes himself as an avid philonoist, tech geek, entrepreneur, oenophile, student of code, mac user and coffee drinker. Learning Goes Virtual Courses from the world’s best universities [...]
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment LITE Center in Lafayette was buzzing all weekend with a team of student game designers participating in the 2012 Global Game Jam. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is a project of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and takes place in hundreds of locations around the world. It occurs annually every January and while [...]
Envoc , a Louisiana-based custom software development and application hosting company, announced earlier this month that it has acquired Maxon Media, a full-service, strategically-driven interactive design agency based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana . This expands Envoc’s offering to include branding and interactive design services. Currently, Envoc’s expertise lies in creating custom software that fits the [...]
ICYMI, here are a few stories from around the web last week covering New Orleans start-ups and business culture. City Business: Naked Pizza is partially clothed in Dubai: Although Western culture has quickly spread with foreign investment in the construction-happy emirate of Dubai, one New Orleans franchise is not taking chances in upsetting the conservative, predominately [...]
Journalists around the country continue to drool over the feel good, comeback kid story that is New Orleans. We can’t blame them – we love us, too! Both Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine published stories this week related to the local entrepreneurial movement. Unfortunately, both stories featured an image that reinforces an age-old idea of what [...]
No doubt you’ve already heard about the horrendous #McDStories campaign that McDonald’s launched last week, encouraging their customers to share their own #McDStories. Bad Idea. Twitter Backlash And they get much worse – ranging from someone finding a fingernail in their Big Mac to saying that the chicken nuggets are made with a type [...]
CoHabitat Shreveport continues to increase educational and business development opportunities available to growing companies in the area. Tonight, Southern University Shreveport Louisiana (SUSLA) and Cohabitat are teaming up to present a Cohab Labs workshop focusing on Louisiana Economic Development’s Small and Emerging Business Development Program (SEBD). SEBD is dedicated to helping small businesses in Louisiana by [...]
The Receivables Exchange will host a free webinar on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, featuring Joseph Romano, Partner at Presti & Naegele Accounting Offices. Joseph is an advisor in sophisticated tax planning as well as QuickBooks consultation and training. The hour long webinar will cover the strategic benefit of having a “cash cushion” for your business, and offer [...]
