Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to launch startups. On April 5th, the event comes to New Orleans for the first time ever. Startup Weekend New Orleans will be held at Propeller and is expected to bring between 80 and 100 innovators to the [...]
Inspired by the Italian word for “all,” the Tutti Music Player provides everyone with the opportunity to practice their music with masters and share content with friends through the interactive software launched last week. Founders of Tutti Dynamics, the company responsible for the development of the Player, Darren Hoffman and Kristen McEntyre, wanted to provide [...]
Thirteen years after the Idea Village was founded, over one hundred global leaders gathered for the 2013 Entrepreneur Ecosystem Summit at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week to discuss the city’s growing ecosystem. Maintaining an entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurship as an agent of change, entrepreneurship in a 21st century economy, and what New Orleans will look like on [...]
Many New Orleanians are familiar with e-commerce in the United States, but how many can say they traveled to another country, without speaking the language, and started a successful e-commerce business? Peter Ostroske started the fashion brand olook in Brazil that delivers up-to-date accessories– shoes, purses, and jewelry– at prices that are fifty percent less [...]
First came the fun and often custom designed smart phone cases. Then came the extended battery life cases. Now, Baton-Rouge based Yellow Jacket has upped the ante again with their iPhone 4/4S case that doubles as a stun gun, while boosting the battery life of your phone, of course. The Yellow Jacket Case safely holds [...]
Representatives from Moonbot Studios held a press conference yesterday to announce the next step for the company: the development of a video game, “Golem,” which will be released mid-2015 (the press conference is available for viewing here). The Studio also launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the project. Brandon Oldenburg from Moonbot said, “The [...]
Two friends of over ten years have teamed up to create an entirely original iPhone game with strong New Orleans roots. Chris Schultz (and the Flatstack team) and artist Lionel Milton launched a Kickstarter campaign late last night to help fund Mardi Brah, a street-style punt, pass, and kick competition. For years they had been [...]
Great news! 4.0 Schools just announced the opening of the Bay Area Lab Cohort. Read on for more information about the launch: What is the Lab Cohort? The Lab Cohort is a six week, part-time experience in the Develop stage of our programming. Designed to help passionate people build fluency in design, iteration, and prototyping, Lab [...]
The newly launched Indiegogo campaign is for a locally written, illustrated, and printed book What the Sleepy Animals Do at the Audubon Zoo. For months, four newly local New Orleanians have been brainstorming, researching and creative this soon-to-be published children’s story focused on the playful, sleepy animals at the zoo. Ryan Murphy, Grace Millsaps, Alyson Kilday, and [...]
Jolie and Elizabeth, the New York trained, New Orleans’ based fashion duo, will be launching their new app, adorned in their signature seer-sucker, just in time for NOLA Fashion Week this month. The app features their ultra feminine fall collection for inspiration while you practice your runway walk. Bring your headphones, because we hear the [...]
