Jason Nicosia, Founder of online social fundraising site (or “LinkedIn meets eBay for social good”) Connect for a Cause pitches his platform to SBN at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. Earlier this week, the company rolled out new features. Nicosia said, “we’re excited to introduce Fixed-Price Meeting Availability — an option you can set on your dashboard that [...]
New Orleans is doing something that my father thought would never happen, we are changing with the times. But, we’re doing even more than that, we’re steadily starting to set the standard in several industries. Therefore, I would argue (and not just to annoy my dad) that we’re actually ahead of the times in some [...]
The man behind CODEMKRS, Travis Laurendine, is making headlines again. Today at 3 pm CST / 4pm ET he will be interviewed live on HLN’s Making It In America with Vinnie Politan from the New Orleans studio. The show often highlights small business and startup success stories, in addition to more recently featuring stories centered around [...]
We’ll be there! #WhatsNextNOLA RT @SiliconBayou: Join Us Tonight for the 2nd Annual #SBN100 Release Party! bit.ly/127YRaP #nola THE IDEA VILLAGE@IdeaVillage Wed, Dec 12 2012 07:30:46 ReplyRetweetFavorite #SiliconBayou100 Release Party @NolaMeetup @SiliconBayou @EiffelSociety @LaunchPad @NewOrleansBio 6pm #SBN100 fb.me/22UWwFAgf NightlifeNola@NightlifeNola Wed, Dec 12 2012 09:15:44 ReplyRetweetFavorite Getting pumped for tonight’s @SIliconBayou #SBN100 Zach Kupperman@zachkupp Wed, Dec [...]
The web-based technology platform for the multifamily industry, 365 Connect, has won many national awards in the past. Once again, they were able to announce last week that they have received the Multi-Housing News (MHN) Technology Choice Awards in three categories – Marketing Portals, Resident Portal and Resident Payment Systems. This is the second year [...]
PollBob has been acquired by QuestionPro, an online market research firm based out of Seattle. New Orleans-based PollBob was co-founded by our very own Zach Kupperman along with Ben Jacobson in 2010. Jacobson will now join the QuestionPro team and Kupperman has left the company. PollBob specializes in online and mobile polling, with a user [...]
In 2009, Launch Pad was the first co-working space to open in New Orleans. With a focus on tech and start-ups, the founders of Launch Pad put as much work into growing the community as goes into running the bustling home base of the New Orleans start-up ecosystem. When I started getting involved with [...]
Co-founders Sean Simone and Seth Froom, young tech entreprenurs from right here in the Silicon Bayou, have launched their first product, the Yellow Jacket Case. Yellow Jacket is a product development company focused on creating safe and convenient forms of self-defense for customers. The idea for the case all started back in 2011 when Froom was attacked [...]
The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group Inc. announced plans last week to invest up to $50.4 million in a new type of power-plant technology that captures carbon dioxide. Shaw plans to buy up to half of the startup company that developed the technology, called Net Power LLC. Energy powerhouse Exelon Corp. is also partnernig to market [...]
The world’s largest high school science research competition, the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, was held recently in Pittsburg and featured 20 projects from Louisiana students. Many of the students took home honors for their entries, receiving category awards, special awards, scholarships, and cash prizes. Students from Shreveport, New Orleans, Lafayette and Natchitoches competed [...]
