Local University (LocalU) is a series of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) seminars targeting small business owners. Local University: New Orleans will take place on May 7, 2013 from 8:00am to 1:00pm at the Kendall Cram Room of the Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University. As a bonus, Silicon Bayou News has partnered with Search Influence on [...]
Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering Dean, Nicholas Altiero, has been elected president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has been working with the organization for years and is the current chairman of its Engineering Deans Council. Altiero’s begins his term as ASEE president-elect in June and as president in June 2014. [...]
The Tulane Business Plan Competition (TBPC), hosted by the Tulane Entrepreneurship Association (TEA) in partnership with the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, has announced the finalists for its 13th annual competition. The student-run, international competition received 51 applications this year. Twenty moved onto the second round and three companies– Be Well Nutrition, TRUE-See Systems, and Humanure [...]
“Here is the thing about smart people,” said author and New Orleans native Walter Isaacson on Monday afternoon at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. “They are a dime a dozen. It is the creative and imaginative people who really amount to something.” In New Orleans, the residents are, among other things, creative and imaginative, and that [...]
Eight schools were chosen this year to participate in the Idea Village’s nationally recognized MBA experiential learning program, IDEAcorps. Teams of MBAs from Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Loyola, Stanford, Tulane, and Yale are providing direct strategic consulting to New Orleans entrepreneurs throughout New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW). To date, the program has engaged over 500 [...]
InNOLAvation is a local non-profit that was created to facilitate innovation within the minority community. The organization has created the inNOLAvation Challenge to encourage high-growth businesses within the community. In partnership with the Idea Village, the challenge will take place during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 from 10:00 am to [...]
A document with a number of Statistics, Testimonials, Awards, and Rankings, or STARs, was released this morning from GNO, Inc. The memorandum provides over 25 reasons why New Orleans is a great place to live, work, and raise a family. Much of it stems from the business climate, including entrepreneurial activity, and the brain gain [...]
The city of New Orleans, its residents, and the Idea Village are in the midst of preparing for the biggest New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) in history. The fifth annual NOEW will take place March 16-22, 2013 at Gallier Hall downtown. So far, more than 780 local entrepreneurs have registered for the 2013 Season’s educational, consulting, [...]
Megan Hargroder Megan is the founder and CEO of Conversations LLC, a full-service social media strategy company, specializing in what’s most important when marketing your brand online: conversations. She works with small businesses and entrepreneurs on learning how to speak with their customers instead of TO them. On LinkedIn. On Twitter. Michael Azzano Michael is [...]
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 [...]
