The Idea Village and the Greater New Orleans Foundation announced yesterday the launch of the third annual Water Challenge, which targets entrepreneurs and their innovative solutions to water issues and how we live with water. Water is such an important part of Southeast Louisiana, it is only appropriate local entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to [...]
New Orleans and surrounding areas are gradually coming back on-line after a hiatus from power and internet due to an extended visit from Hurricane Isaac. Late Wednesday evening, an email was sent out to all Launch Pad members indicating that the building maintained power and internet throughout the storm and would be open Thursday (yesterday) [...]
Today, Launch Pad Ignition announced a major change to the operations of their 2 1/2 year old accelerator program. Accelerator programs have been coming under fire nationwide as stories circle about poor performance, unclear advice, and a lack of standard guidelines and concepts. Locally, Launch Pad Ignition iterated after their first year from standard admission criteria [...]
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise’s (LITE), the 3-D visualization center in Lafayette,, appointed Dr. Kam Ng as its new CEO last month. Ng joins the LITE team after retiring from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as the deputy director for research and comes more than a year after of searching for a replacement. Ng is relieving [...]
In true New Orleans form, we celebrate everything that the city has to offer with dedicated seasons throughout the year. Between festival season, crawfish season, and football season, there is never a dull moment, or lack of something to commemorate. This week, The Idea Village kicked off the 2013 Entrepreneur Season, opening registration to entrepreneurs in the [...]
This week The Idea Village announced the opening of the 2013 “Entrepreneur Season.” In recent years, the New Orleans based non-profit accelerator has based it’s programming around a season that begins with the opening of IDEAxcelerator applications in mid-summer and culminates in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week the following spring. Applications are open now for the [...]
Propeller (formerly SENO) today announced twelve new fellows for their annual Social Venture Accelerator class. The program is a ten month business accelerator focused on both non-profit and for-profit companies that aim to solve social challenges. According to Andrea Chen, Propeller’s Executive Director, last year’s nine fellows, “generated an economic impact of 40 new jobs [...]
It was a quiet week at Launch Pad in New Orleans. After 12 weeks of start-up hustle & bustle related to Launch Pad Ignition and Launch Fest, I’d gotten used to the madness. It wasn’t quiet because the 2012 Ignition program is over. It was quiet because Chris Schultz, Peter Bodenheimer, and Barre Tanguis were [...]
Launch Pad Ignition is a 12-week mentor-driven accelerator program for startups in New Orleans. Launch Fest is where these companies debut after the weeks of hard work and hope to gain funding. This year, there were 15 founders and 37 mentors. The event received national coverage and was featured in TechCrunch, TechCocktail, NOLA.com, and the [...]
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists for a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is an opportunity for busy yet brilliant people to connect with other passionate and skilled individuals and bring an idea to life in startup form. The [...]
