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: 2012 Silicon Bayou 100: Group 4 David Rieveschl, Drew Brees, Dustin Puryear, Gary Soloman Jr., Hugh Uhalt, James McNamara, Jamie Smyth, Jared Loftus, Jason Nicosia, Jeff Lyons, and Jeff Pellegrin all made it to this year’s SBN 100. For [...]
Paul Dietzel For the last two years, Paul has been working on his fundraising and donor management company Anedot. The company recently acquired YouCanSend.Me. Paul sits on the board of the Baton Rouge Rowing Association and has worked at Dietzel & Co. as a consultant for over nine years. On LinkedIn. On Twitter. Peter Bodenheimer [...]
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 [...]
In conjunction with the Tales of the Cocktail kick-off this week, a local entrepreneur has launched a new app that combines two things that are dominating the New Orleans scene: cocktails and technology. The app is called BarNotes, and it’s the love child of Mixologist Drink Recipe app, Instagram, and Twitter, so you can upload, share, and search [...]
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 [...]
Neighborland, a website started in New Orleans to inspire collaboration and change on a neighborhood level, announced a funding round today that includes a list of who’s who among both local and Silicon Valley VC’s. Chris Schultz, who is participating in the round along with Peter Bodenheimer through Voodoo Ventures, blogged about the investment. He stated, “Today [...]
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 [...]
The StartupBus is preparing to kick off its third year of app-building on the trek to SXSW. A few weeks ago, Peter Bodenheimer wrote a piece for us on why New Orleans wants a StartupBus – and we’ve seen a lot of support from the local community. Now, the StartupBus has opened applications up to [...]
For those who think that our entrepreneurial community lags behind bigger markets like Silicon Valley or New York City, think again. The movement is spreading like wild fire in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Some might even say it has ignited a new era of potential for the growth and advancement of our city. New [...]
This is a guest post submitted by Peter Bodenheimer. Peter is a co-founder of the local TechStars Network accelerator Launch Pad Ignition and one of those guys that hates the world “entrepreneur.” You can read more about him and his style on All About Peter. Last week New Orleans joined the group of 37 cities (and [...]
