Last year, Adriana Lopez wrote an article on Under30CEO.com covering the Top 25 reasons New Orleans is the best city for young entrepreneurs. This year, Under30CEO has come out with its own list of the top young NOLA entrepreneurs under the age of 30. Over the summer, Under30CEO launched a nationwide campaign for the most [...]
It was a quiet week at Launch Pad in New Orleans. After 12 weeks of start-up hustle & bustle related to Launch Pad Ignition and Launch Fest, I’d gotten used to the madness. It wasn’t quiet because the 2012 Ignition program is over. It was quiet because Chris Schultz, Peter Bodenheimer, and Barre Tanguis 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: Startup Weekend Headed to Central Louisiana in June: Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists for a 54 hour event that builds [...]
Introducing (not really, we have written about him before here and here) Martin Roth. He is a born and raised New Orleanian who graduated from LSU last year with a degree in Economics. He founded Giftmeo, a shared-gifting platform that allows people to pitch in on a gift for a friend, and was a member of [...]
Launch Pad Ignition is a 12-week mentor-driven accelerator program for startups in New Orleans. Launch Fest is where these companies debut after the weeks of hard work and hope to gain funding. This year, there were 15 founders and 37 mentors. The event received national coverage and was featured in TechCrunch, TechCocktail, NOLA.com, and the [...]
The following is an excerpt from Martin Roth’s blog post about hiring a developer. Martin co-founded Giftmeo with Michael Angle, a group gifting service that leverages social networks like Facebook and allows multiple users to combine individual funds to create a larger gift for a common friend. Giftmeo is a Launch Pad Ignition 2012 participant. He [...]
Launch Pad Ignition hosts its annual Launch Fest on May 3rd, 2012, a conference that brings together mentors, speakers, and investors to raise funding for the entrepreneurs in New Orleans and the startups they have created. In addition to the seven speakers listed, the event will also feature the first public pitches by the Launch Pad [...]
Edmundo Braverman is a New Orleans expat currently residing in Paris and writing regularly for Wall Street Oasis. He and I chat it up on the twitters pretty regularly and a few weeks ago he notified me he was going to be in town and wanted to check out the scene at Launch Pad (SBN [...]
Launch Pad Ignition, the New Orleans-based accelerator in its second year, is announcing its 2012 class of startups this evening. The seven companies selected will spend the next 12 weeks in New Orleans launching or furthering the development of their companies. While the official announcement and presentation of the start-up founders will occur this evening at [...]
This is a guest post submitted by Martin Roth, co-founder of Giftmeo. Enter Martin… ————— This is an open letter to anyone in Louisiana who is interested in “entrepreneurship” (whatever that actually means). More specifically, this is intended for those of you who are keeping an eye on the Startup Bus competition and are vying [...]
