Nawlins Cab is the most recent addition to the city streets, opening in early 2013 as the first premium taxi service in New Orleans. The company culture and the emerging technological advancements in place in all the cabs are making bookings easier and keeping drivers safer. Founded by Sheree Kerner, Nawlins Cab has quite the story [...]
Last Wednesday, a bill unanimously passed exempting custom-based software from sales taxes in East Baton Rouge city-parish. It received strong support from the city and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce. It all started when Logan Leger found out the city of Baton Rouge was seeking sales tax from him. Leger is the CEO [...]
I’ve written about Louisiana Benefit Corporations before, and recently I had the opportunity to look at the business structure more in-depth. At this point, there are really only two main advantages to the Benefit Corp: marketing and reduced liability. Marketing Show me a corporation that doesn’t want to be considered socially responsible, and I’ll show [...]
The following is a guest post by Martin Roth. Martin currently works in business development for Benefit Administration Group, a local benefits and HR technology consultancy. Martin co-founded Giftmeo with Michael Angle. He also curates contemporarymasculine.com. Follow Martin on Twitter @themartinroth. —————————————————————————————————————————— The 2012 Presidential Election is in the books, and ole’ Barry is back in office for another four years. [...]
Every entrepreneur has probably had the importance of entity selection beat into their head. If you read this site regularly, you’ve probably seen a few articles on the topic. A quick Google search turns up more articles than one could ever read. The truth is, entity selection is important, but it doesn’t always need to [...]
This is a guest post by Mark Graffagnini of Graffagnini & Assosciates about a web tool he created for startups and other companies to calculate a potential recovery under the BP settlement. Mark is a lawyer who started the firm after much frustration with how other firms are run. He and his team understand the [...]
Last week, I spoke with a client who had discussed the new book she was working on with a “friend.” That friend then took the idea, and discussed it with another writer who writes about the same industry. The second writer though it was a fantastic idea and is not considering writing a similar book. [...]
I often get questions about S-Corps when discussing new business formation with clients. An S-Corp isn’t actually an entity choice, it’s a tax classification. When you create a new business, chances are you’ll be creating either an LLC or C-Corporation. Once you chose between those two entities, you have to decide how you want to [...]
Have you signed Transport for NOLA‘s petition for Open Transit Data? I had some concerns as a techie when I reviewed the comments on this petition. I agree that Open Data (information that is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control) is a public good that [...]
Congressman Ben Quayle from Arizona’s third district recently introduced H.R. 2941, the Startup Expansion and Investment Act, which will allow shareholders of public companies with market valuations below $1 billion to opt out of regulations within section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley for the first 10 years after going public. The costs for complying with the requirements of [...]
