Note: This post is part two of a three post series on New York-based startup Warby Parker, driven by interviews with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO. At it’s core, Warby Parker is a company attempting to deliver high quality, fashionable, prescription eyewear to consumers at a reasonable price. —————————————————— Fashion First During a recent talk at GrowCo in [...]
Louisiana Tech students came home from the Shell Eco Marathon competition in Houston last weekend with three victories. The team took first place in the Diesel Fuel competition in the UrbanConcept class with 488.7 MPG. They also claimed the Team Spirit award and the Design award. We previously reported that the team hoped to break [...]
Note: This post is part one of a three post series on New York-based startup Warby Parker, driven by interviews with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO. At it’s core, Warby Parker is a company attempting to deliver high quality, fashionable, prescription eyewear to consumers at a reasonable price. ——————— I don’t wear glasses, I’m fashionable only [...]
As New Orleans Entrepreneur Week drew to a close, I feared that I would wake up Monday morning with post-NOEW depression. Similar to post-Mardi Gras depression, post-NOEW depression would include anxiety, deep sadness and some life-reassessment. Only this time it would not be due to a seven-day bender, but an intense week filled with pitch challenges and [...]
Yesterday, InvoiceASAP announced the much-anticipated new release of its acclaimed mobile invoicing and payments platform. This is the first launch of a mobile invoicing & payments platform that can synchronize with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online as well as accept credit card payments by digital camera scan. The new platform, available for Apple iOS [...]
Earlier this month, Aquaponic Modular Production Systems (AMPS) debuted the first aeroponic farm in New Orlean at Hollygrove Farm and Market. AMPS is an urban agriculture development company formed by Founder and CEO Doug Jacobs while involved with Tulane’s Changemaker Institute. AMPS team members also include CFO Kevin Morgan-Rothschild, Stephanie Stefanski, and Melissa Hew. The team notably won the crowd [...]
Out to Lunch, the business-minded weekly podcast by It’s New Orleans always has interesting guests. Peter Ricchiuti, Founder and Director of Research for the Burkenroad Reports sits down to lunch at Commander’s Palace each with with two different people making waves in local business. Here are a few recent podcasts covering #SiliconBayou goodies we don’t [...]
It’s ironic that as technological advancements increase in healthcare, the relationship and amount of communication between the healthcare provider and the patient declines. Thus, causing inefficiencies throughout every stage of the patient/provider relationship, beginning with the first encounter in the exam room. Of course, I am grateful for all the discoveries and advancements that have [...]
Blade Dynamics, which manufactures high tech wind turbines, produced its first New Orleans-made blade at the Michoud manufacturing facility in eastern New Orleans on Thursday. Blade Dynamics is a clean tech startup based in England that designs and manufactures advanced blades, turbine rotors, and surface coatings for high power wind turbines. Last year the company [...]
NuMe Health, the New Orleans biotechnology company developing prebiotics for disease prevention, announced that the company filed a patent application covering a proprietary formulation of its first cobiotic product, NM504, which is being developed for the prediabetic population. Cobiotics are combinations of food components that we cannot digest that act to control the GI microbiota [...]
