The following is a post by Will Scott, Founder and CEO of Search Influence and Local University Faculty Member. ———————————————————————————————————————– New Orleans business owners should always be eager to learn more about how they can develop or improve their online sales and lead generation, but often they don’t know how to get started. With some of the [...]
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is a non-profit educator established over a decade ago in Australia, which began opening up campuses throughout the states in 2009. Lafayette, La. was chosen as the second U.S. location, behind Seattle, because of its growing film and media industry to be a place to teach the next generation [...]
A team of indie video game developers in Louisiana has launched their next big project on Kickstarter. DarkSeas Games is working to take the motorcycle combat-racing game play, pioneered by the Road Rash series, to the next level. If funded, the team will implement next generation graphics, physics, and online play into the game Road [...]
With over 3,000 of the nation’s most innovative corporations, business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and MBAs engaged during 150 events at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, it’s hard to say which event had the biggest impact on the city. Perhaps it was Mayor Landrieu’s opening speech during the Ecosystem Summit, or maybe the strategic consulting provided by [...]
Video game startup Petrodactyl Studios held its first fundraising event on March 22nd to raise funds for their first major project, Vendetta. The team set aside a 54-hour block and live-streamed “torturetainment,” where they played games and watched bad movies that the audience selected. Through the unique fundraiser, the startup received $1235.53 from 11 individuals [...]
The technology and the music industries are colliding at full force in New Orleans. According to one local app development company, music has gone mobile. Marquee Mobile is a location-based, incentive-driven mobile application that allows music professionals to connect with fans. The app launched in private beta, just before Jazz Fest began last week. It’s [...]
Students from the Department of Music Industry Studies at Loyola University New Orleans are gearing up for Senior Pitch Night, an event created for the students to share their innovative business ideas. The event will be held tomorrow, April 30th, at 6:00pm at Roussel Hall. Students will pitch a variety of ideas, including: apps, artist [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: From Internet Clones to a Celebrity Curated Ecommerce Site: One New Orleanian’s International Adventure If you’ve ever wondered what a German startup clone incubator and a local fashion ecommerce [...]
From a modeling contract to the realization that she has a passion for academics, Natasia Malaihollo attended Berkeley where she studied BioChem until finally falling in love with the legal studies department. Like many future entrepreneurs, she climbed the corporate ladder until one day she had a “fascinating” dream. “As insane and weird as this [...]
If you’ve ever wondered what a German startup clone incubator and a local fashion ecommerce site have in common, you’re in for a treat. German-based Rocket Internet is an online startup incubator that replicates successful companies in new, global markets where they often become the number two or three player behind the original company. Rocket [...]
