We’re seeking passionate and multi-talented college students for a summer internship at Silicon Bayou News! We’re looking for an editorial/sales intern who is comfortable writing for us in addition to various sales tasks throughout the summer. Details are as follows: The 3-month internship (May – July 2013) is for college credit only Preferred majors include [...]
Startups generally do not have large cash positions nor do they have substantial cash flows from operations, so they look for ways to pay sought after employees, managers, and executives with some type of equity compensation (at least partially) instead of cash compensation. Employee stock options are often used as part of the compensation and [...]
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: 2013 Entrepreneur Ecosystem Summit: The New New Orleans Thirteen years after the Idea Village was founded, over one hundred global leaders gathered for the 2013 Entrepreneur Ecosystem Summit at New Orleans Entrepreneur [...]
Meet Max Walsh, Silicon Bayou News’ newest contributing writer. He’s a senior at Tulane who is interested in writing about venture capitalists, funding, and other finance news. As a Boston-area native, Max came down here for school and, like many of us, might not leave any time soon. Find him uptown or at the next [...]
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 [...]
This post was written by blogger extraordinaire Kat Stromquist, who works as the Community Manager at Lawyerfy alongside Jeff Lin and Arjan Singh. Jeff was recently featured in an All About You post where he shares more about Lawyerfy and his move to the Big Easy. —————————————————————- For the young New Orleans entrepreneurial type, it’s a pretty common fantasy [...]
Last Thursday, Silicon Bayou News was featured in the Columbia Journalism Review. Contributor Evan Simko-Bednarski wrote an article about us, “Silicon Bayou News: News for (and by) the New Orleans tech scene.” The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) was founded in 1961 and today covers press performance and the forces that affect that performance. The magazine is [...]
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: LA Tech Park hosting iOS App Workshop for Professionals in April: The Louisiana Technology Park and LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host for the first time the iOS [...]
The Louisiana StartupBus has completed its inaugural journey and was a huge success said Terry Jones, Managing Director of RIO, the Regional Innovation Organization, and also the Conductor of the bus. One of its teams, Scoringo – Stuart Adams, Natalie Noel, Jarvis Brown, Jeff Pellegrin, Andrew Bursavich and Tommy Talley, was one of just eight teams to make [...]
Audiosocket, founded in 2007, is a company with a harmonious intersection between music and technology. It is a music licensing and technology company allowing users to access an easy-to-use database at a reasonable price. Audiosocket is launching Audiosocket U. for student filmmakers seeking an affordable music licensing solution. Music licensing is a huge challenge within [...]
