Seth Froom Seth is one of the men behind Yellow Jacket, a stun gun case for iPhones. Prior to his invention and founding of the company, he served in the Army as a Military Police Soldier. On LinkedIn. Shawn Usher Shawn is the President of Sparkhound, a company which help businesses accomplish their goals through [...]
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 [...]
Megan Hargroder Megan is the founder and CEO of Conversations LLC, a full-service social media strategy company, specializing in what’s most important when marketing your brand online: conversations. She works with small businesses and entrepreneurs on learning how to speak with their customers instead of TO them. On LinkedIn. On Twitter. Michael Azzano Michael is [...]
Lina Stern Lina is an integral part of the entrepreneurial community in New Orleans, for she is the Director of Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship at Tulane University. Prior to her current position, she worked in the Freeman school in various capacities for the last twenty years, proving both her expertise in leadership and her dedication to [...]
John Schneider Located in Baton Rouge, John works as the current President and CEO of the Vision City Development Group where he utilizes a real estate development strategy for the purposes of revitalizing, energizing, stabilizing and synergizing key local communities in the city. He is Chairman of Springboard, an organization with the mission of establishing [...]
Jen Medbery Jen is a former Teach For America corps member and a founding teacher of New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy. After frustrations with paper management of her classroom, Jen started Kickboard (formerly Drop The Chalk) and has been successfully providing tech apps to teachers ever since. On LinkedIn. Jen on Twitter. Kickboard App [...]
David Rieveschl David is an attorney at Baker Donelson who concentrates his practice on securities, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and banking law. He is an expert in contract negotiation and corporate law and governance. On LinkedIn. On Twitter. Drew Brees As often attributed to Spiderman (but originally stated in New Orleans by New York City Mayor-Elect Thomas Francis Gilroy in 1892), ”With great power [...]
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: The How After two years of the Silicon Bayou 100 running fairly similarly and smoothly, there are still remaining questions and some confusion as to how [...]
We again want to thank everyone for coming to the 2nd annual Silicon Bayou 100 Release Party. It was a blast and below are the pictures to prove it! Launch Pad is the premier co-working space in New Orleans with a variety of options to meet your workspace needs. Visit them in the IP Building [...]
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 [...]
