Entrepreneurial mindsets and an overall innovative current continues to electrify the city of New Orleans and business opportunities throughout the state. Last week, contributor Adriana Lopez was featured, once again, on Forbes.com. Her piece, America’s New Frontier For Business Opportunity, details why Louisiana is such an attractive state to do business in and the brain [...]
Social entrepreneurs in the New Orleans area now have a place of their own, the newly opened Propeller Social Innovation Incubator. The incubator opened on January 2nd and is a combination of co-working spaces, open-area desks, and private offices to suit the needs of the 19 current and many more future tenants. In addition to [...]
Lina Stern Lina is an integral part of the entrepreneurial community in New Orleans, for she is the Director of Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship at Tulane University. Prior to her current position, she worked in the Freeman school in various capacities for the last twenty years, proving both her expertise in leadership and her dedication to [...]
The Silicon Bayou 100 Release Party was a great event! Thank you to everyone who made it out last night and to those who could not make it for being part of of the entrepreneurial community in Louisiana. We’re looking forward to an amazing 2013! For those of you who missed last night’s release party [...]
Based on Candy Chang’s “I Wish This Was” project, Neighborland is an online community where people can share voices, gather support, and make things happen. The company was incubated in New Orleans, began slowly expanding and has announced it is now available everywhere in the United States. “When neighbors can collectively discuss issues, propose ideas, [...]
The second night of Propeller’s fourth annual PitchNOLA competition went off last night without a hitch. The Lots of Progress competition selected the top 11 applicants to choose from 49 vacant lots around the city and to then pitch an idea that utilizes the vacant lot to benefit the community. In true, crazy New Orleans [...]
Propeller’s fourth annual PitchNOLA competition kicked off last night with the ten Community Solutions finalists pitching their hearts out for the $5,000 grand prize and a shot at the audience favorite prize of $500. Chen mentioned this year’s competition had the highest quality and number of applicants, as well as between 700 and 800 audience [...]
Propeller is searching for social entrepreneurs, innovators, and people who care about seeing a rebirth in New Orleans continue to apply to both of the 2012 PitchNOLA competitions: Community Solutions and Lots of Progress. Each with a different end goal, both recognize a challenge the city faces, are currently accepting pitch applications, and will eventually [...]
According to data from Propeller: A Force for Innovation, 36 percent of 10- to 17-year-olds are overweight, with low-income and minority children being affected the most. They, along with partners Revolution Foods and KIPP New Orleans Schools, have launched School Food Authority (SFA) in an effort to fight childhood obesity in the area and, hopefully, create a model that [...]
According to Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation, more than one in three 10 to 17 year olds in Louisiana are overweight. To fight childhood obesity, 10,000 healthy lunches are being delivered to public schools throughout New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The issue of obesity is just one social issue that Propeller and its 2012 [...]
