NOLA Meetup is excited to announce its four guest speakers for this evening, Ralph Maurer, Executive Director of Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship and a Professor at Tulane; Gerard Ramos, Founder of Unawkward and Revelry Labs; Andrew Legrand, contributing SBN writer and Founder of Andrew Legrand Law, LLC, a virtual firm; and Abid Hussain, also a [...]
As part of the annual New Orleans Film Festival, the 50 minute NOLAbound documentary was screened last night at the Joy Theater, showcasing the city as an entrepreneurial hub. 27 people were chosen from four fields — arts-based businesses, digital media, biosciences, and sustainable industries — to come to the city back in March and [...]
The Gulf Coast Patent Association, based out of downtown New Orleans, has a mission of fostering an environment that promotes economic development through technological innovation. Their monthly meeting is an all-day event being held on October 19th from 10:30am to 7:00pm at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center. The event will feature two panels, one for young professionals [...]
In a city with as much hustle and bustle as the next, New Orleans has a good number of meetups, especially tech meetups, already on the radar. But, there’s always room for more that will help us learn and grow, which is why teacher Jin-Soo Huh has recently announced the newest meetup in town, Ed [...]
Code for America has teamed up with the City of New Orleans to make all of our lives easier. Instead of spending hours on the phone with various city departments or searching through a confusing website, now there is a simple solutions to get up-to-date information about blighted properties in the city. Today at 1:30pm, [...]
IdeaMensch is a community of people who have set out to bring ideas to life, traveling to 50 venues across 48 states to do so. The IdeaMensch team cultivates interviews and profiles entrepreneurs across all walks of life, an idea that started because founder Mario Schulzke realized all of his heroes were, in fact, entrepreneurs. [...]
Entrepreneurs’ Organization of Louisiana and New Orleans Chamber are teaming up to bring NY Times best selling author, Josh Linkner, to New Orleans. Linkner is the author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, a four-time tech entrepreneur, and talented business leader and innovator. As part of the Chamber’s third quarter business breakfast [...]
Propeller is searching for social entrepreneurs, innovators, and people who care about seeing a rebirth in New Orleans continue to apply to both of the 2012 PitchNOLA competitions: Community Solutions and Lots of Progress. Each with a different end goal, both recognize a challenge the city faces, are currently accepting pitch applications, and will eventually [...]
SeNSE announced that its 15th Pitch Night will be held during Baton Rouge Entrepreneur Week, kicking off on November 11th, 2012. SeNSE was put in charge of the pitch night, along with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, and they are currently looking for startups to pitch. Applications are now [...]
Back in August, SBN covered the details of Startup Weekend Shreveport, happening the weekend of October 26-28th, 2012. Now, the 54 hour event will also include a tour of Moonbot Studios and a host of other added speakers, coaches, and judges. The tour of the studio will take place on Friday afternoon and the first 20 people [...]
