We wanted to take a brief timeout to celebrate our 1000th Article on SiliconBayouNews.com! 1000 posts on SiliconBayouNews.com and all signs point to more growth in 2013! Over the last (almost) two years the SBN Team has been bringing you exclusive news, first looks at new startups and products, and inside features with the regions [...]
After two years of the Silicon Bayou 100 running fairly similarly and smoothly, there are still remaining questions and some confusion as to how it works. This post is meant to be a clarification of the #SBN100 and provide a starting point for discussions on how the process may change next year. What the Silicon Bayou [...]
The 2012 Silicon Bayou 100 is the second annual list of the 100 most influential and active people in tech and entrepreneurship in Louisiana. The official list will be unveiled tonight at the 2012 Silicon Bayou 100 Release Party at Eiffel Society in New Orleans from 6-8pm! Tickets are available now at eventbrite.com. Join us for a great evening of celebrating [...]
Silicon Bayou is very happy to announce the promotion of Julia Ballard to Editor-In-Chief. Julia replaces Molly Oehmichen, who has stepped down to concentrate on her consulting job. Julia previously served as our Assistant News Editor, where she coordinated writers, sourced stories, and handled the nuts and bolts of SBN operations. She is also a [...]
Last week, SBN covered the new networking event, NOLA Meetup, designed to attract technology talent, businesses, entrepreneurs, students, and more. Unlike Net2No and other top meetups in the city that generally have a single speaker per event, NOLA meetup has a unique format where each event has one keynote speaker and a number of other [...]
Fast Company recently covered three innovation hubs outside of Silicon Valley: Silicon Bayou, Silicon Alley, and the Silicon Hills. Similar to another article which came out in July, Fast Company says Silicon Bayou is a contender to be the next Silicon Valley. Conferences, events, coworking, and accelerator programs all help these areas out. Fast Company [...]
Meet Julia Ballard. Julia is a Cambridge, Massachusetts native who felt the call and moved to New Orleans after graduating from the University of Redlands in California last year. We’re thrilled to announce that in February, Julia joined the Silicon Bayou team as our Assistant News Editor. You may have seen her name pop up [...]
Last Thursday, Silicon Bayou News was featured in the Columbia Journalism Review. Contributor Evan Simko-Bednarski wrote an article about us, “Silicon Bayou News: News for (and by) the New Orleans tech scene.” The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) was founded in 1961 and today covers press performance and the forces that affect that performance. The magazine is [...]
Wow. It’s been an entire year to the day since we launched SBN. A year ago, I was frantically trying to get a basic word press blog up and running before the first day of NOEW. I really had no idea what I was doing. And what a year it has been… What started out [...]
Local start-ups and tech are hiring in record numbers – but the posts are often buried on general local job boards or hidden away on company websites. We frequently post round-ups of job listings for developers, start-up hiring activity, and tech job news in the region but we wanted to take it one step further. So today we’re launching [...]
