Over one hundred global partners gathered during the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Summit during the fifth New Orleans Entrepreneur Week to discuss best practices for sustaining entrepreneurial ecosystems. A report was published on Monday (April 1) with information about the Summit, including an overview of the presentations, a list of attendees, the full agenda, and a compilation [...]
New Orleans is experiencing a resurgence of entrepreneurship, or a “third wave.” Through over 55 events highlighting 51 entrepreneurs, the Idea Village’s Entrepreneur Week showed the world this city can be a global leader when it comes companies who are solving big problems. The annual Coulter IDEApitch, created by Jim Coulter during New Orleans Entrepreneur [...]
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 [...]
Alan Weinkrantz interviews students from two business schools who were assigned to provide strategic consulting during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. Other entrepreneurs who were chosen to be part of the 15 featured at The Big Idea are interviewed as well. ——————————————————————————————————————————–—- We’d like to thank our sponsors for SBN’s involvement in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week: Federated [...]
If you have big dreams and crazy ideas, New Orleans is the place to make them happen. On the last day of Entrepreneur Week, thousands gathered to support the remaining events, including The Big Idea, where 15 companies were vying for $50,000 in seed capital. The 15 companies showcased their early-stage companies outside of Manning’s [...]
Alan Weinkrantz interviewed Idea Village COO and Entrepreneur-in-Residence Kevin Wilkins about The Big Idea and why he moved to New Orleans. Wilkins said post-Katrina he, “began to see a different New Orleans… a resilient New Orleans, a can-do New Orleans, an innovative New Orleans.” —————————————————————————————————————————- We’d like to thank our sponsors for SBN’s involvement in New [...]
Anedot enables nonprofits, political campaigns, and other causes to easily accept donations and manage donor information. Founder Paul Dietzel presented early today (March 22) at Power Pitch during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. Dietzel said the company does about 65% of its work with political causes, but will be more 50/50 in the near future. For more [...]
Special guest and billionaire investor at TPG Capital, Jim Coulter, addressed the crowd at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week at the closing keynote yesterday. He spoke about fit and entrepreneurs finding the right situation for them, and starting with big problems to transform them into big solutions. Coulter also compared entrepreneurs and athletes; it was duly [...]
The Urban League of Greater New Orleans Women in Business Challenge is focused on educating and empowering women entrepreneurs in the city. The Challenge Pitch that took place this afternoon (March 21) is the culmination of the Urban IDEACenter four-month business program that selected ten women to participate in the inaugural 2013 cohort. Entrepreneur-In-Residence at [...]
After a quick change to the lineup, Idea Village representatives shared a new addition for Thursday’s lineup of speakers, billionaire investor Jim Coulter. Coulter is a founding member of TPG Capital, a leading global private investment firm with over $54B of capital. He will fill in for scheduled speaker Dana Mauriello, Director of New Business Opportunities at [...]
