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 [...]
The fourth annual Tribe Conference, or TribeCon as it’s better known, is a conference about the web and building communities is taking place this Thursday, October 25th, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm in City Park. The event will be an interactive kick off to the Voodoo Experience, which includes speaker Thomas Dolby, emcee Chris Trew, [...]
This week we thought we’d give you a ‘dig deeper’ look into the mostly-silent type: Peter Bodenheimer. Peter is a New Orleans native living in Bayou St. John (part of “mid-citay,” as he calls it). You may have seen him around, involved in ten different corners of the Silicon Bayou including being a partner of Flatstack, Launch [...]
WE WANT YOU. FSC Interactive needs help with operations. GNOINC is hiring a Sustainable Industries Initiative (SII) Project Manager and a Business Development Associate. Peter Mayer needs digital account supervisors. FatHappy Media, the rockin digital video studio, is looking for a web video editor. And HERO|Farm is looking for an account executive to feed grapes to [...]
It’s been a week and a half since TribeCon 2011 and I wanted to offer the world a few tidbits of the community magic that took place on October 27th, 2011. I was a very small part of the team behind TribeCon this year and I didn’t get to watch every presentation, but I learned [...]
I recently had the chance to sit down with Taylor Davidson while he was in town for Tribecon. Davidson is a Senior Associate at kbs+p Ventures, responsible for sourcing and vetting deals. Having coached many entrepreneurs on how to raise capital, he offered our readers the following advice: Start talking to investors early. The earlier you bring them into [...]
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: New program integrates entrepreneur resources into one online tool: Metro New Orleans Sourcelink is an online platform that connects businesses and entrepreneurs to a network of business-building service providers in [...]
A number of entrepreneurial events are coming up on the Silicon Bayou this week and we don’t want you to miss a single one. Check out the list below and show your support by showing up. If we missed something, please add it in the comments! Tuesday: Socialize with Social Innovators Social Entrepreneurs of New [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the top posts posted in the past seven days: Entrepreneurs give a toast to alcohol with The Drink Show premier: For three local entrepreneurs, alcohol and the culture behind it has created new business opportunities. Andrew Larimer, Kyle Williams, and Britt King [...]
Today, Chris Schultz sent out a personal newsletter announcing the 2011 TribeCon will be his last at the helm. TribeCon kicked off in 2009 as the official conference alongside the Voodoo Music Experience. Now in its third year of existence, TribeCon continues to bring together a passionate group interested in the fuzzy border between the [...]
