Launch Fest is an event that combines an entrepreneurship conference with a demo day for the Launch Pad accelerator class of 2013, and yesterday marked their fourth annual event. The goal of this year’s Launch Fest, from the startup perspective, was to showcase the best investment-ready companies in New Orleans to local angel and national…
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Over the last few years, New Orleans has been in a constant state of rebuilding. Along with the volunteers and contractors who have worked to rebuild the historic city, came a crop of talented, smart entrepreneurs looking to build companies, too. In the video below, Launch Pad cofounder Chris Schultz talks about how New Orleans’…
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Would you pay $1,150 for a meeting with 500 Startups’s Dave McClure? Someone did. And they did it on Connect for a Cause, a site that lets anyone auction off meetings for charity. CEO and cofounder Jason Nicosia is counting on how desperately people want connections – and how hard they are to get. “There’s…
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Apparently, there’s some sort of sporting event going on this weekend. Whether you’re watching the Super Bowl from the comfort of your couch or with the crowds in New Orleans, here are some apps that will keep you plugged in. From Home NFL Mobile: If you have Verizon, you can stream the game on your…
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If you are like me, you almost never have cash to pay the bill at a restaurant or elsewhere, but you ALWAYS have your mobile phone with you. So why is it that more people don’t use mobile phones to pay for transactions? Some answers were provided at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans…
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Another day, another fresh new class of startups launching to the public. This time it’s demo day for Launch Pad Ignition, a tech accelerator based in New Orleans. The program offered coworking space, mentorship, and up to $20,000 (for startups not yet funded). “We really focused on companies that were going to be able to…
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Startup accelerator programs have been spreading like wildfire over the last few years. We have been covering them since 2007 as TechStars launched in Boulder, Colorado to emulate Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston’s Y Combinator model. Since then we’ve seen TechStars expand to other cities, become part of Startup America and open source its model…
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