Popular music licensing and technology company Audiosocket has expanded its roster of strategic partnerships with another top company– representatives have confirmed a partnership with YouTube channel StyleHaul. Audiosocket will provide the channel with curated, quality music for its fashion, beauty, and lifestyle content instead of the more typical “stock” music provided by some competitors. StyleHaul [...]
Fulcrum is Federated Sample’s open and customizable online sampling platform that hit one million survey interviews for the year back in February. Today (April 9) the platform hit two million completed survey interviews. The Federated Sample team considers this a major accomplishment. “Reaching 2 million survey interviews this early in the year is certainly very [...]
There is a growing demand for game developers in the Silicon Bayou and beyond, which is why the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans (UNO) has announced the addition of a game development concentration. The university curriculum committee has already approved the concentration. “The pervasiveness of computer gaming on personal computers, [...]
Some of the best success stories stem from the combination of two already existing ideas or platforms designed to solve a problem. Oliver Bremer created Founder2be or, “Match.com meets LinkedIn,” to connect entrepreneurs with ideas to others who want to see those ideas come to life. Simply put, Bremer connects co-founders. Bremer said that one [...]
A new digital agency has launched today, providing another boost to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in New Orleans. Two passionate technologists, Joe Corbett and Jason Seidman, founded Lanyap Creative and are focused on delivering effective and impactful campaigns. An already growing staff joins Corbett, Chief Executive Officer, and Seidman, Chief Marketing Office. Andrew Curtis is Lanyap’s [...]
Last week brought about a few changes to New Orleans-based Schedulist, an online staff scheduling application primarily used by nurses and nurse managers. From now on, Schedulist will be known as StaffInsight. CEO of StaffInsight Chris Laibe said the company is changing to reflect their strategic pivot to position themselves properly in the healthcare market. [...]
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 [...]
The Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge has set aside around 1,800 square feet for a new video game, app, and digital content incubator, said to open any day now. “The focus will be on things that can be digitally distributed and not just games,” said Jesse Hoggard, a spokesman for the Tech Park. Companies [...]
eTax Credit Exchange founders Peter Loop and Raelynn Tammariello Loop are working to change the online marketplace for buying and selling tax credits. The company recently launched in the Louisiana market, which brings the company one step closer to unlocking the $7 billion tax credit industry. “Having an online marketplace for trading tax credits has the [...]
