Chris Schultz Chris co-founded Launch Pad and Launch Pad Ignition, and founded Voodoo Ventures,Flatstack, and TribeCon. Before that, he started several other companies to various levels of success and failure. His own experiences, support, and mentorship have been spread 100 times over to many people on this list and many people who will end up [...]
After two years of the Silicon Bayou 100 running fairly similarly and smoothly, there are still remaining questions and some confusion as to how it works. This post is meant to be a clarification of the #SBN100 and provide a starting point for discussions on how the process may change next year. What the Silicon Bayou [...]
After weeks of organizing, emailing, and hoping that the first NOLA Meetup would go off without a hitch, it did. Last night, around 100 members of the meetup showed to listen to the two keynote speakers: Jeff Silverman of Laconia Ventures and Mike de Boer of General Electric. The crowd was buzzing, the speakers were [...]
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: Why you should attend the inaugural NOLA Meetup on Sept 18 Chris Schultz wrote a guest post last week on why members of the New Orleans community should attend the [...]
This is a guest post by Chris Schultz, a tech entrepreneur living in New Orleans, LA. He has launched several Internet companies and blogs about entrepreneurship and the startup ecosystem at ChrisSchultz.net. Chris is a co-founder of Launch Pad, a collaborative workspace in downtown New Orleans that is home to more than 60 startups and Launhcpad [...]
There’s a new meetup in town: the NOLA Meetup, modeled after New York City’s own tech meetup. Spearheaded by Chapterspot.com founders Brendan Finke and Joe McMenemon, NOLA Meetup is the not-to-be-missed networking event for techies, entrepreneurs, and aspiring businessmen. The NOLA Meetup, which will take place on the third Tuesday of each month from 6pm [...]
New Orleans and surrounding areas are gradually coming back on-line after a hiatus from power and internet due to an extended visit from Hurricane Isaac. Late Wednesday evening, an email was sent out to all Launch Pad members indicating that the building maintained power and internet throughout the storm and would be open Thursday (yesterday) [...]
Today, Launch Pad Ignition announced a major change to the operations of their 2 1/2 year old accelerator program. Accelerator programs have been coming under fire nationwide as stories circle about poor performance, unclear advice, and a lack of standard guidelines and concepts. Locally, Launch Pad Ignition iterated after their first year from standard admission criteria [...]
Louisiana had a great showing at South by Southwest this past year between the StartupBus and Launch Pad Ignition. For newbie techs South by Southwest (SXSW) is a conference of gargantuan proportions in Austin, Texas every March that is split into three tracks: interactive, film, and music. This year, local companies and community leaders are [...]
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: Silicon Bayou Tech Entrepreneurs Launch Stun Gun iPhone Case Co-founders Sean Simone and Seth Froom, young tech entreprenurs from right here in the Silicon Bayou, have launched their first product, [...]
