The Idea Village
SBA: The Small Business Watchdog5/11/2012 - "The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Think Biology 101"New Orleans connected all the dots under the banner of entrepreneurship. In fact, entrepreneurial thinking is slowly becoming part of the local culture and workforce. The work of organizations like Idea Village has been pivotal (described in depth in an MIT journal article). |
ABC World News Now5/1/2012 - "New Orleans Makes a Comeback"New Orleans opens up to new entrepreneurs. |
Independent Banker5/1/2012 - "Think Big"Twelve years later, that ad hoc contest had long since morphed into the nonprofit Idea Village, which has raised $3.1 million in capital that has funded more than 1,600 local entrepreneurs. |
Out to Lunch4/24/2012 - "Out to Lunch: Clean & Dirty"Out to Lunch - Clean & Dirty : Idea Village CEO Tim Williamson hosts a lunch with Demo Diva Simone Bruni & the shower man, Spa Workshop’s Taylor Galyean. |
Forbes4/13/2012 - "Billionaire Investor Jim Coulter on Why New Orleans is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs"A few weeks ago, an entrepreneur incubator in New Orleans called Idea Village held it’s annual Entrepreneur Week, a week-long festival of celebrating all things startup. One of the biggest figures involved was TPG group founder, prolific investor and Forbes billionaire Jim Coulter. Forbes sat... |
NOLA.com4/5/2012 - "Local entrepreneurship makes national news"New Orleans has been receiving an overwhelming amount of press regarding our bourgeoning entrepreneurial community. The local community showed its support during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, and now, the experts from all over the country are weighing in. |
MarketWatch4/4/2012 - "NOLAbound Changes Perceptions of New Orleans Through Social Media and Docu-Tourism"Over five days, NOLAbounders from 11 states visited with the business owners, community leaders, and entrepreneurs remaking the New Orleans business community—asking questions, uncovering opportunities, and telling the rest of the world what they found. All participants were asked to share their... |
TIME3/30/2012 - "How Louisiana is Luring Startups"New Orleans in particular has become a hub for incubating new businesses. “Before Katrina, there was not an ecosystem to fund entrepreneurs,” says Tim Williamson, founder of The Idea Village, a New Orleans non-profit that has provided support and helped raise more than $3.1 million in funding for... |
The Huffington Post3/23/2012 - "A New Orleans for the Future"The City of New Orleans is poised for a comeback like I never believed possible. She has hung out an “Open for Business” shingle and has gotten to work, shaking hands and beating the street, determined to win back businesses and residents alike. |
NOLA.com3/20/2012 - "New Orleans Entrepreneur Week succeeds with local engagement and more"This year’s theme was local engagement, and the event dared to ask the community: What if it (entrepreneurship) works? When more than 1,500 people showed up to The Big Idea on Friday evening, it proved that what is happening in New Orleans is in fact real, and the rest of our community is finally... |
Morningside Heights to Silicon Alley3/19/2012 - "New Orleans Poised To Become The Education Startup Capital of Tomorrow. No, seriously."Last week was New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), an annual gathering of top tech talent, VC and corporate leaders, top MBA teams, civic leaders, and the city’s most promising entrepreneurs, for a celebration of New Orleans’ startup ecosystem that would have been unthinkable just 7 years ago. |
The Wall Street Journal3/16/2012 - "The Big Easy’s Business Leap Forward"From its modest origins a decade ago, the nonprofit Idea Village has grown into an engine for the New Orleans economy. To date it’s helped raise about $2.7 million in seed capital for more than 1,100 local entrepreneurs, creating more than 1,000 jobs and $83 million in annual revenue—and these... |
New Orleans CityBusiness3/15/2012 - "Classroom Blueprint wins $10K in Education Entrepreneur Challenge Pitch"Classroom Blueprint, a New Orleans startup that is developing an online platform for teachers to share how they design their classrooms, walked away with $10,000 in seed funding during the Education Entrepreneur Challenge Pitch, one of many events taking place during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. |
Co.EXIST - Fast Company3/15/2012 - "Post-Katrina, New Orleans Rises Up With A Sustainable, Entrepreneurial Culture"New Orleans is becoming a hot bed of social enterprise, as the city plans to show to the world during this year’s NOLABound showcase. |
Bloomberg3/14/2012 - "Startups Will Bolster U.S. Economy, Isaacson Says"Walter Isaacson, biographer and chief executive officer of the Aspen Institute, talks about the outlook for the technology industry and his biography of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs. He speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday.” |
NOLA.com3/14/2012 - "New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Halftime Report"“We are at the Idea Village. In case you don’t know what that is, they are the future of New Orleans,” echoed Garland Robinette’s monotone, mature voice in The Idea Village lobby as he recorded his radio show on WWL live from the excitement of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. |
WDSU3/14/2012 - "Entrepreneur Week Helps Start Up Business"Two young entrepreneurs get creative to start their own business. |
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship3/13/2012 - "Senator Landrieu Addresses New Orleans Entrepreneur Week"United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Monday, addressed attendees of New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week’s kickoff event, the 2012 Water Challenge. The second annual Water Challenge is a collaborative initiative of The... |
Tablet3/12/2012 - "New O"After a trifecta of trauma — Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and a global recession — entrepreneurship has been key to the city’s cultural and economic revival. In March New Orleans hosts its fourth Entrepreneur Week, a conference where aspiring business owners receive... |
NOLA.com3/12/2012 - "Kiva CEO says entrepreneurial community should include high-growth and traditional firms"The CEO of Kiva, a microlending web site that connects individual lenders with small business ventures around the globe in need of financing, called on the New Orleans entrepreneurial community Monday to include in its ranks both high-growth startups and smaller, more traditional firms.... |
The Times Picayune3/11/2012 - "New Orleans Entrepreneur Week will feature keynote speakers, workshops, competitions"The Big Idea Challenge is one of more than 75 events connected to New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship that began Saturday and ends Friday. The annual event—now in its fourth year—is produced by The Idea Village, a local nonprofit that nurtures entrepreneurial... |
WWL TV3/11/2012 - "Post-Katrina environment creates entrepreneurship hub"This year, students are once again spending their spring break guiding local entrepreneurs. But they’re only part of the week’s innovative gumbo. Companies like Google and representatives from the White House will be in the mix as well, drawn to a city Forbes’ named the #1 brain magnet in America.... |
WGNO3/11/2012 - "Designer Resale Web Business Soars For Entrepreneur"Ballard is one of 19 people competing in the “Big Idea” competition put on this New Orleans Entrepreneur Week through the Idea Village. Not only will she be competing in this American Idol type event at Manning’s Restaurant, she will be making businesses pitches in other competitions; and she’ll be... |
New Orleans City Business3/9/2012 - "3 water management startups to compete for capital at Entrepreneur Week"Three New Orleans startups trying to change the way the people manage water will compete for $50,000 in seed money as a part of an event that will kick off New Orleans Entrepreneur Week on Monday. |
Official Google Blog3/9/2012 - "Helping entrepreneurs in the Crescent City"Google has been an active participant in the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Next week, they’re heading back to New Orleans once again, this time to serve as the Premier Partner for the fourth annual New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week (NOEW). |
NOLA.com3/9/2012 - "Top MBAs flock to New Orleans Entrepreneur Week in lieu of spring break"One of the programs that is enabling such access to the entrepreneurial community is Idea Village’s IDEAcorps initiative. The competitive program recruits teams of MBA students from some of the country’s most prestigious business schools to work closely with six Idea Village Entrepreneurs. |
New Orleans City Business3/7/2012 - "Idea Village wants locals to plug into Entrepreneur Week"The Idea Village is seeking local engagement in their fourth annual week long event, New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. The closing event, The Big Idea, will have entrepreneurs fighting for the vote of local supporters to win up to $100,000. |
The Advocate3/7/2012 - "Entrepreneurs presenting ‘big ideas’ at N.O. event"Vertical aquaponic farm kits, an online giftcard application that allows givers to pool money for a single gift card or cause, and a New Orleans-based clothing company on a mission to bring its textile manufacturing back to the U.S. are just a few of the “big ideas” to be bandied about during... |
The Times Picayune3/6/2012 - "New Orleans’ entrepreneurial spirit has shined throughout its history: Walter Isaacson"I’m proud to be a New Orleans native. Our town exerts an emotional tug not just on me but on people around the world, including some who know it only by reputation. Wherever I go, people pepper me with questions when they find out I’m from New Orleans. In the past, they mainly asked about the... |
TIME3/5/2012 - "How Entrepreneurship Can Fix Young America"Despite growing economic uncertainty for American youth, there is still a surprising amount of optimism. This optimism comes from the growing amount of entrepreneurs, who have started their own companies instead of remaining unemployed. The Idea Village helps these young entrepreneurs cut through... |
NOLA 383/4/2012 - "The 411 with Tim Williamson of The Idea Village"The 411 hosted by Jocelyn Lockwood welcomes Tim Williamson, CEO of The Idea Village, to discuss The Idea Village, Entrepreneurship in New Orleans and NOEW 2012. |
NOLA.com2/28/2012 - "How entrepreneurship has integrated into New Orleans culture"In its fourth year, NOEW kicks off on March 10 with a week of competitions, seminars, workshops, and social events that celebrate the local entrepreneurial eco-system. The event, hosted by The Idea Village, brings in both nationally and locally renowned business leaders, policy leaders, angel... |
OPEN Forum2/27/2012 - "Making Communication a Little Easier for Fraternities and Sororities"Last autumn, ChapterSpot was accepted into the prestigious Idea Village accelerator program, a local New Orleans initiative that helps entrepreneurs identify and address growth opportunities and challenges. “They take growing companies and introduce them to the right people,” says McMenemon. |
The Times Picayune2/26/2012 - "Steve Case, Walter Isaacson to headline New Orleans Entrepreneur Week"Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson will headline next month’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. The fourth annual event scheduled for March 10 through 16 will feature seminars and workshops as well as opportunities for local start-up companies to get hands-on assistance and to pitch their concepts to... |
Sacramento Business Journal2/23/2012 - "Tech leader: Key is retaining talent"The “what if” became the mantra of The Idea Village that has now helped in the creation of more than 1,000 jobs and the creation of numerous companies. |
Bloomberg Businessweek1/27/2012 - "Building Startup Culture in New Orleans"Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has reinvented itself as a bit of an entrepreneurial hub, replete with incubators and accelerators and an Entrepreneur Week now in its fourth year that draws visitors from Google, Stanford, and venture capital firms. It has homegrown success stories like the... |
WDSU1/25/2012 - "Organizers Names Winner in Trust Your Crazy Ideas Contest"The winning T-shirt from the 2nd annual Brees Dream Foundation/Idea Village Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge hits store shelves. |
Inc.com1/23/2012 - "New Orleans and Young Entrepreneurs: Nurturing Each Other"With programs like The Idea Village, Launch Pad, and the New Orleans Startup Fund, New Orleans is building a reputation as an under-the-radar location for young entrepreneurs. |
NPR12/29/2011 - "In Katrina’s Wake, New Orleans Enjoys Startup Boom"New Orleans has long been known as one of America’s hardest luck cities, struggling over the years with poverty, crime and corruption and tragic disaster. But the city’s darkest days have sparked a surprising new entrepreneurial spirit. |
NOLA.com12/13/2011 - "The Idea Village and Drew Brees inspire local high-school students to trust their crazy ideas"The Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge, the result of a prominent partnership between The Idea Village and The Brees Dream Foundation, is an intensive after-school program that turns students from New Orleans area high schools into entrepreneurs. |
PSFK12/13/2011 - "Why New Orleans is the New Frontier for Entrepreneurship and Innovation"In mid-March, cutting edge creative business minds in the arts, biosciences, digital media, and sustainability fields will meet in New Orleans for a program that merges the city’s character with fresh and inventive entrepreneurship. |
WGNO12/5/2011 - "High School students got a chance to pitch their ideas to Drew Brees"High School students got a chance to pitch their ideas to Drew Brees. WGNO reporter Tyler Wing has the details on the"idea bowl” in the C-B-D. |
The Times Picayune11/28/2011 - "Designer Social packs up its luxe handbags and expands into a new location"[Francine] Ballard, one of 21 entrepreneurs in the Idea Village’s 2012 IDEAxcelerator program, has built up her shop to offer a mix of new, in-season merchandise with gently used secondhand items by Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Gucci, Hermes and dozens of other luxe labels. |
WWL11/22/2011 - "Michael Hecht, Tim Williamson, & Kurt Weigle in the Think Tank"Garland in The Think Tank with CEO and President of the Greater New Orleans Inc Micheal Hecht, President of the Idea Village Tim Williamson, and President and CEO of the Downtown Development District Kurt Weigle to discuss NOLA Bound which showcases New Orleans as an entrepreneurial center. |
VentureBeat11/21/2011 - "NOLAbound opens applications to lure entrepreneurs to New Orleans"NOLAbound is being overseen by The Idea Village, Downtown Development District of New Orleans, and Greater New Orleans, Inc., and has received money from U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. |
The Times Picayune11/19/2011 - "Sen. Mary Landrieu and Rep. Cedric Richmond praise young entrepreneurs"“(Idea Village CEO) Tim Williamson and my brother, Mitch, who’s the mayor, are literally rebuilding it entrepreneur by entrepreneur by entrepreneur and in 10 years we’ll look back and see an extraordinary effort going on in New Orleans.” |
GOOD11/17/2011 - "Exploring New Orleans, Startup by Startup"Applications open today for the chance to be one of 25 professionals to take an “unfiltered” look at New Orleans’ flourishing social entrepreneurship community on an all-expenses-paid trip to the city during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. For five days in March, NOLAbound participants will get to... |
New Orleans CityBusiness11/17/2011 - "NOLAbound to bring in outside opinions on local startup scene"Through a program dubbed NOLAbound, the Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Greater New Orleans Inc. and The Idea Village are teaming up to pay airfare, ground transportation, meals and lodging for 25 individuals from across the country to visit New Orleans. The effort seeks professionals... |
NOLA.com11/17/2011 - "NOLAbound a new program to augment entrepreneurial growth in New Orleans"Over the past few years, New Orleans has been receiving a lot of national recognition and it hasn’t been about Hurricane Katrina or Bourbon Street. It’s been focused around our growing businesses, high-ranked businesses environment, bourgeoning industries, and entrepreneurship. |
Forbes11/17/2011 - "After Katrina, New Orleans’ Entrepreneurial Boom"New Orleans is coming back strong. After sustaining the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, the national economic recession, and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans today shows significant signs of rebounding, thanks to key reforms in education, criminal justice,... |
The Times-Picayune11/13/2011 - "Baton Rouge hosts event for budding firms"Baton Rouge Entrepreneur Week was modeled off of New Orleans’ four-year-running Entrepreneur Week, which is put on annually by the Idea Village, a nonprofit that nurtures start-up ventures. In fact, the annual Baton Rouge Entrepreneur Week will be scheduled to occur six months after the New Orleans... |
xcountry10/31/2011 - "It Takes a Village to Raise a C…ompany"Five entrepreneurs from New Orleans, LA founded Idea Village in 1999. The impetus was to re-energize a city in decline, which had lost over 41,000 young professionals in the 1990s. Their vision was to create an environment providing guidance for venture success and to serve as catalyst to create... |
Gambit10/25/2011 - "The Young Entrepreneurs"Allison Good reports though New Orleans is becoming known for young entrepreneurship, many startups are filled with natives and near-natives. What it will take to reverse the brain drain. |
New Orleans CityBusiness10/24/2011 - "Startup Close-Up: Pollbob"Startup Close-Up is a series of profiles on new companies in New Orleans. In an August report, the Brookings Institution noted that nearly 450 of every 100,000 adults in the city was starting a business, a rate more than 40 percent higher than the national average. Local venture PollBob is the... |
Nola Vie10/24/2011 - "Why New Orleans is top city for entrepreneurs"But where was New Orleans? A place teeming with start-ups, national business competitions, a growing populace of young and talented entrepreneurs? Headquarters of Launchpad, the Idea Village, the new BioInnovation Center? |
New Orleans CityBusiness10/20/2011 - "Idea Village previews 2012 startup class"The Idea Village released the New Orleans startups that will make up its third accelerator class, kicking off the months-long preparation for New Orleans Entrepreneur Week in March. |
Silicon Bayou News10/19/2011 - "Idea Village announces 2012 IDEAxcelerator entrepreneurs"The annual Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge (IVEC) is The Idea Village’s central business development program managed by a team of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence [EIR’s]. Each year, a select group of New Orleans entrepreneurs is invited to partner with The Idea Village to identify and address... |
Nola Vie10/19/2011 - "New Orleans entrepreneurs find business opportunities in Greek life"ChapterSpot has been growing quickly, with more than 1200 chapters across the country using the application, and the duo is already looking to expand the service to other organizations and markets in the near future…Now, having been accepted into Idea Village’s accelerator program, the two... |
Silicon Bayou News10/17/2011 - "Idea Village chief Tim Williamson discusses the impact of entrepreneurship in New Orleans"The Idea Village formalized in 2002 as an independent non-profit organization with a mission to identify, support and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans by providing business resources to high-impact ventures. The Idea Village continues to be active in New Orleans through the Idea Village... |
It's New Orleans10/11/2011 - "Out to Lunch - Next Big Thing"Out to Lunch - Next Big Thing : Tim Williamson dissects New Orleans business, lays out how his Idea Village revolutionized the city, and looks ahead. |
Nola Vie9/20/2011 - "A NOLA Entrepreneur’s Credo"“The entrepreneurial community in New Orleans has grown due in part to the help of many resources available, such as The Idea Village, Launch Pad, Silicon Bayou News, Generation: New Orleans, Inc., and the annual Entrepreneur Week. Not only have these resources helped many start-ups get off the... |
WWL TV9/17/2011 - "N.O. area one of fastest growing places for entrepreneurs"Tim Williamson, co-founder and CEO of The Idea Village, appears with Henry Albert, founder of Rare Cuts, to discuss how New Orleans entrepreneurs are creating impact. |
New Orleans City Business9/17/2011 - "Two New Orleans startups head to the White House"Two New Orleans entrepreneurs make a trip to the White House to share details on how they turned their ideas into businesses and how national policy can encourage others to follow in their footsteps. |
Nola Vie9/6/2011 - "Establishing Tweeterships: An entrepreneurs guide to essential Twitter followers"The Idea Village: The Idea Village supports entrepreneurial activity by providing businesses with the resources they need to get started. Follow their tweets for the latest updates in local entrepreneurial news. @ideavillage |
NOLA.com9/1/2011 - "Polls go digital with New Orleans entrepreneur"The entrepreneurial scene in New Orleans is burgeoning, with new companies appearing, it seems, every week. They have been accompanied by an expanding collection of support organizations such as the Idea Village, whose goal is to guide new entrepreneurs through the often-challenging start-up... |
NOLA.com7/20/2011 - "New Orleans above national average for entrepreneurial activity"“Most cities can’t build an entrepreneurial ecosystem because it takes time and patience,” he explained to members of the Association for Corporate Growth’s Louisiana chapter. “The reason why New Orleans is getting all this traction in 2011 is because there’s a connective tissue that ties together... |
Times-Picayune7/13/2011 - "Louisiana ranks 30th in clean economy jobs in the nation"“Meanwhile, the Greater New Orleans Foundation together with The Idea Village recently concluded its first Water Venture Development Challenge. The competition provided a $50,000 grant to a Nanofex, a company that created a technology to use cellulose, found in sugar, to decontaminate ground water.... |
EDA6/30/2011 - "U.S. EDA Invests to Enhance the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in New Orleans, Louisiana"“The Idea Village is playing a critical role in building a vibrant entrepreneurial community in the New Orleans region,” said U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development John Fernandez. “This EDA grant supports the vital work that The Idea Village is doing to create jobs by... |
New Orleans CityBusiness6/27/2011 - "Former N.O. teacher makes 2 national entrepreneur lists"“Funding for the project originally came from The Idea Village’s Entrepreneur Challenge, which led to contact with investors. Recently, during the 2011 Tulane Business Plan Competition, Drop the Chalk took home the Domain Company Prize.” |
Fox 86/7/2011 - "New Orleans in Forbes Magazine"Tim Williamson, Co-Founder and CEO of The Idea Village discusses New Orleans in Forbes Magazine. |
NOLA.com6/3/2011 - "NOLA Brewing to start canning; another NOLA startup is behind it"“Enter Idea Village, and Rebirth Financial. Earlier this year, Coco and NOLA Brewing participated in Idea Village’s Entrepreneur Challenge, a series of classes that help startups move their businesses to the next level. Rebirth Financial, a peer-to-business lending platform founded in February,... |
Profile Magazine6/1/2011 - "Taking Wing: Business-incubator programs nurture entrepreneurs and help fledging business ideas fly"“One such program is The Idea Village. The brainchild of a group of New Orleans entrepreneurs, The Idea Village is a non-profit incubator that helps start-ups get off the ground by identifying their core needs, accelerating their development, and giving them access to the organization’s... |
The Times-Picayune6/1/2011 - "NOEW Business Plan winner heads out West"“In March, William Kethman, a Tulane medical student, got onstage at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week in front of powerful venture capitalists and investors to pitch a life-saving product, SafeSnip. The device, which aims to prevent infant deaths by cutting and disinfecting the umbilical cord of a... |
Forbes5/31/2011 - "The Katrina Effect: Renaissance On The Mississippi"“But what is happening in the city of New Orleans, whose population is now back to almost 350,000, and its region represents something far more significant and long-term? For one thing, the storm undermined the corrupt, inept political regimes that had burdened the area for decades. “Katrina... |
Financial Times5/9/2011 - "Start-ups and all that jazz"“This year saw the third annual Entrepreneur Week, held in true New Orleans style with street parties infused with the smells of alligator sausage and beer, and the sound of live bands. The winner of an American Idol-inspired vote on the best entrepreneurial idea was a Tulane medical student who... |
The Idea Village4/18/2011 - "U.S. Commerce Department Awards DDD, GNO, Inc., Idea Village $775,000 Grant for “New Orleans is Open"NEW ORLEANS (April 18, 2011) – Today, the Downtown Development District of New Orleans (DDD), Greater New Orleans Inc. (GNO, Inc.) and The Idea Village announced the receipt of a collaborative $775,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to develop and implement an... |
Tulane University New Wave4/15/2011 - "Med Student Wins Start-up Pitch Contest"Third-year Tulane medical student William Kethman has to make room in his studies for a trip to San Francisco. His fledgling company, NOvate Medical Technologies, won the 2011 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week IDEApitch, so he is getting a free trip to California to meet top investors. |
Loyola University Newsroom4/14/2011 - "M.B.A. students help streamline bottling process for NOLA Brewing"Local microbrewery NOLA Brewing and a team of Loyola University New Orleans M.B.A. students worked together to steer the three-year-old company in the right direction for a new bottle processing system. The collaboration was part of the Idea Village’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Competition,... |
Kellogg News & Events4/13/2011 - "A ‘Rare’ Opportunity"When Hari Sripathi ’11 decided to spend spring break competing in the New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week IDEAcorps MBA Challenge, the lifelong vegetarian didn’t anticipate diving into the guts of the meat industry. |
nola.com4/10/2011 - "Kyle Berner, Tim Williamson and Beau Babst"
Tim Williamson, CEO and co-founder of The Idea Village, with entrepreneurs Kyle Berner of Feelgoodz and Beau Babst of SensPack. |
Campaign for Free Enterprise4/7/2011 - "The Coolest Start-up City in America"As devastating as Hurricane Katrina was for the city of New Orleans, it appears that innovation and the spirit of entrepreneurship emerged unharmed from the wreckage. The New Orleans metro area produced new businesses at a rate well over the national average, with 450 out of every 100,000 adults... |
Big Think4/7/2011 - "New Orleans: America’s Startup City"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, an entrepreneurial spirit rose that has given new meaning to the city of New Orleans and taken its businesses onto global success. One such success story is the Idea Village, a startup that organizes workshops and competitions involving M.B.A. students from the... |
Inc.com4/6/2011 - "Why New Orleans Is the Coolest Start-up City in America"Idea Village, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit that helps support local entrepreneurs, is helping rebuild its city’s economic devastation by organizing a series of workshops and competitions involving MBA students from the nation’s top business schools. |
SiliconBayouNews.com3/29/2011 - "NOvate Medical Technologies Wins Coulter Challenge"NOvate Medical Technologies was selected winner of the 2011 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week IDEApitch, which culminated with a investment pitch opportunity led by Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital. |
Entrepreneurial Though In Action, A Babson Faculty Blog3/29/2011 - "The Jazz Festival For Entrepreneurship"The New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week really was the jazz festival for entrepreneurship. I spent several days last week at the “festival” and was able to participate in a number of ways, including offering a mini demonstration of a 10,000 Small Businesses module, facilitating a round table... |
Village Capital Blog3/28/2011 - "Village Capital New Orleans: A Recap"I’ve just returned from New Orleans, where we closed our Village Capital program with the Idea Village at the end of last week. The Idea Village’s class had a cohort of 16 entrepreneurs, and last week, the entrepreneurs ranked one another to come up with four finalists. The Final Four felt... |
Bayou Buzz3/28/2011 - "Idea Village’s 3rd Entrepreneurship Week New Orleans A Real Success"The 3rd annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week presented by Idea Village is now a part of history but for many start ups and hopefuls, it highly touted event is creating a future. The week-long event ended Friday with IDEApitch and a cocktail party at the home of James Carville and Mary Matalin. |
nola.com3/25/2011 - "NOEW Photos"
Photos of events hosted during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. |
The Idea Village3/25/2011 - "WINNER SELECTED FOR NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR WEEK"NOvate Medical Technologies was selected winner of the 2011 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week IDEApitch, which culminated with a investment pitch opportunity led by Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital. NOvate’s first product, SafeSnip, is a disposable obstetric device that simultaneously... |
WWLTV3/25/2011 - "Entrepreneur Week lets New Orleans innovators shine"Have you ever said, “I wish I had the idea for that product that’s so simple. Why didn’t I think of that?” That’s the focus for hundreds of “idea people,” all local and taking part in the third annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, with New Orleans being the winner. Taylor Galyean lives... |
nola.com3/25/2011 - "Coulter Challenge: ‘American Idol’ for entrepreneurs"New Orleans Entrepreneur Week culminated today in a high-stakes Idea Pitch competition by wanna-be CEOs, in a sort of “American Idol” for business people. Here’s a look, collected over an afternoon of blogging, about the contest and who ultimately won. (Result revealed at the end; sorry, you... |
nola.com3/25/2011 - "Google representatives visit New Orleans to educate business owners"As part of this week’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week hosted by Idea Village, representatives from software giant Google paid a visit to New Orleans to educate local business owners on how to implement Google software and strategies to make their companies more successful. |
The Daily Beast3/25/2011 - "New Orleans’ Mardi Gras for Entrepreneurs"With its third annual Entrepreneur Week, New Orleans is ready to establish itself as the nation’s model of entrepreneurship and innovation. Catherine Lyons on the post-Katrina startup culture in the Big Easy. New Orleans, long a magnet for those in search of a good time, is drawing the world in... |
The Idea Village3/23/2011 - "ENTREPRENEURS WIN BIG IN EARLY DAYS OF NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR WEEK - MORE THAN $70K AWARDED SO FAR"New Orleans – Local startup NanoFex was selected as the winner of the 2011 Water Venture Development Challenge (Water Challenge™) receiving $50,000 in seed funding and eight weeks of business development support, including $5,000 of legal services from Jones Walker today. |
WWL.com3/23/2011 - "Garland Robinette Live from The Idea Village"Garland finishes up the show at the New Orleans Entrepreneur’s Week with Idea Village talking to Lizzie Shepard of Life City, MBA Candidate at Stanford Lauren Plomgren, Cornell Team Leader Pratik Shah, David Culpepper the Water Challenge Winner, Cornell Co-Leader for the New Orleans Team Aaron... |
Village Capital Blog3/23/2011 - "Live from New Orleans: Village Capital finals"Blogging live from New Orleans–today the Village Capital cohort will pick two investments as part of the Idea Village’s New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week. A cohort of 16 entrepreneurs has been meeting weekly since early November, evaluating and assessing one another’s businesses, and today,... |
nola.com3/22/2011 - "New Orleans entrepreneur wins Water Challenge with plan to decontaminate ground water"
New Orleans Entrepreneur Week‘s inaugural Water Challenge 2011 culminated yesterday with the bestowment of $50,000 and business development support to NanoFex, a high-tech company based in the New Orleans area that will use new, local technology to make the country’s groundwater cleaner. |
SiliconBayouNews.com3/22/2011 - "Refresh Environmental snags $17,000 Grant"New Orleans-based Refresh Environmental won the Idea Village’s “Seed to Speed” challenge yesterday presented by Gulf Coast Bank and Trust and Desire NOLA. Thirteen companies pitched their ventures in a fast-paced speed dating format in front of bankers from Gulf Coast, giving seven five... |
Business Report3/21/2011 - "Event for start-ups creates buzz in N.O."(From The Times-Picayune) This week billionaire financier Jim Coulter and representatives from Google, Goldman Sachs, and several venture capital and private equity firms will be in the city for the third annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. The event will be hosted by the Idea Village, a local... |
neworleans.com3/21/2011 - "Entrepreneur Week Kicks Off with $50,000 Challenge"$50,000 is on the line for whoever can help solve water management problems in New Orleans. The goal is to turn one of our greatest threats into one of our greatest assets. The 2011 Water Venture Development Challenge is a great opportunity to spur entrepreneurship and solve water management... |
