New Orleans and surrounding areas are gradually coming back on-line after a hiatus from power and internet due to an extended visit from Hurricane Isaac. Late Wednesday evening, an email was sent out to all Launch Pad members indicating that the building maintained power and internet throughout the storm and would be open Thursday (yesterday) [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Web Survey Company QuestionPro Acquires PollBob PollBob has been acquired by QuestionPro, an online market research firm based out of Seattle. New Orleans-based PollBob was co-founded by our very own Zach Kupperman [...]
Today, Launch Pad Ignition announced a major change to the operations of their 2 1/2 year old accelerator program. Accelerator programs have been coming under fire nationwide as stories circle about poor performance, unclear advice, and a lack of standard guidelines and concepts. Locally, Launch Pad Ignition iterated after their first year from standard admission criteria [...]
Gameloft recently launched the space-theme, locally developed Cosmic Colony where users build up their colonies while defending against alien threats. This is the first full game to be developed in the New Orleans studio. The launch coincides with the year anniversary of the studio opening in Louisiana. Gameloft has over 55 million monthly active users [...]
It was announced yesterday that the audio technology company PreSonus would be expanding and building a new research facility in Baton Rouge. Founded in 1995, Presonus manufactures digital and analog hardware and integrated software systems for the professional audio market. This includes recording systems, mixers, software, and monitoring and controlling devices. CEO of PreSonus, Jim [...]
The Shreveport Bossier Startup Weekend event will be held on Oct 26-28, 2012 inside of Shreveport’s coworking space Cohab. The Shreveport Bossier Startup Weekend will be host to dozens of entrepreneurs being coached by more than 30 successful business and industry leaders in the area. The list of committed judges and coaches is still growing. [...]
With the success of the second IDEAinstitute education session and the approaching deadline for IDEAxcelerator applications, the 2013 entrepreneur season is officially underway. Now The Idea Village has welcomed Kevin Wilkins, Carol Markowitz, and Robbie Vitrano as this year’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs.) These three seasoned entrepreneurs have experience building successful businesses of their own, and have been chosen from [...]
New Orleans based 365 Connect, an online technology platform provider for the multifamily industry, announced its integration with PadMapper. PadMapper is an apartment rental finder that pulls in information and listings from a number of outside sites. The integration distributes all marketing data using the 365 Online Leasing Center to PadMapper via the 365 Marketing [...]
Louisiana had a great showing at South by Southwest this past year between the StartupBus and Launch Pad Ignition. For newbie techs South by Southwest (SXSW) is a conference of gargantuan proportions in Austin, Texas every March that is split into three tracks: interactive, film, and music. This year, local companies and community leaders are [...]
Last month, I discussed the Food Truck Symposium going down over on O.C. Haley. The event, thrown by the New Orleans Food Truck Coalition, Inc., was thrown to bring attention to the Food Trucks and their attempts to work with City Hall to make the city’s laws more amenable to their industry. In case you [...]
