300seats, the creative startup, is hosting its third event this upcoming weekend, September 16-18: Baton Rouge’s first pop-up restaurant. To be held near the main courtyard in Perkins Rowe, the event will feature three themed seatings, with fare ranging from South American/Andean cuisine, contemporary Italian, and NYC-inspired fare. Rumor has it the BR symphony is playing and [...]
Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day was held August 25 on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge and featured Mike DeLazzer, founding member and creative mind behind Red Box. Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day is an on-going series of events, designed to celebrate Louisiana entrepreneurship and inspire the next generation of Louisiana entrepreneurs. Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day is presented by Entrepreneurs’ Organization [...]
Baton Rouge’s first coworking space, Entrepreneur Headquarters, which opened last month, is filled with a palpable energy. Whether it’s the thrill of a brainstorming session in the meeting room, the tap-tap of laptop keyboards as entrepreneurs knock out their daily work, or the expansive views of the Perkins Rowe fountain square, the space has a [...]
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 [...]
Louisiana’s new Regional Innovation Organization (RIO) will team up with volunteers from the Louisiana Drupal Users Group (LaDUG) on Saturday, July 9, to build a new web site to help create a stronger, more vibrant entrepreneurial community in South Louisiana. The event will be held at Pleasant Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, [...]
Based on Creative Mornings, the popular morning lecture series organized by New York designer Tina Roth Eisenberg, Creative Louisiana kicked off Wednesday, June 29 at the Baton Rouge Gallery. Creative Louisiana is a meetup for creative types from all walks of life, from those who work in traditional media such as paint and clay to [...]
InvoiceASAP, the New Orleans startup that provides mobile invoicing capability, continues to make preparations for a national and international launch. Paul Hoeper, CEO and founder, told Silicon Bayou News that his company has inked a partnership agreement with SohoOS and integration agreements with Xero and Tradeshift. These agreements will place InvoiceASAP in front of almost a [...]
Drop the Chalk, the edutech startup founded by Jennifer Schnidman Medbery, is growing fast. The New Orleans startup’s new software app, Kickboard, will be used in classrooms in 9 cities for the 2012-2013 school, doubling their reach for the second year in a row. And soon, the software will be premiering in two nationally recognized [...]
Baton Rouge held its first Startup Lunch on Tuesday, June 7 at Zippy’s Burrito’s on Perkins Road. It was a casual gathering of startup founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who enjoyed tasty mexican food while sharing their current projects and getting to know one other. Startup meetups happen in communities around the nation, and launching [...]
A small contingent of Louisianans is making a big splash at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3Expo) in Los Angeles. The Expo began June 7 and runs through today. Jeff Pellegrin of the Louisiana Digital Gaming Initiative (LDGI) is at the event, joined by Ryan Cooney and Jesse Hoggard. Jeff tells us that there’s quite [...]
