It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Social Impact – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

New Orleans neighborhoods aren’t like the rest of the country. Where else can you live on an expensive street that has potholes that can swallow a 5 year old. Where the streetlights are out but the traffic cameras work perfectly. And there’s a street you’re never quite sure what the name is because it’s never had a sign.

Stepping into this rich tapestry of communities is Neighborlynx, a company that puts all the information about your neighborhood online in one convenient location.

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Neighborlynx CEO Kelly Conatser is Peter Ricchiuti’s guest today on this edition of Out to Lunch.

One thing we’re not big on in New Orleans is change. So this might not be the obvious place for a company called Commit Change. But Commit Change seems to be committed to being here. And changing the world.

jason nicosia

Chief Marketing Officer Jason Nicosia joins Peter to explain his plan for global domination. And he’s pretty convincing. 

peter jacobson

In the entrepreneur segment of the show today, Peter introduces Peter Jacobson, co-founder of Wedocracy, the so-you’re-getting-married app. Hear a longer conversation about Wedocracy with the two Peters, Jason, and Kelly here.

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Photos on this page taken at Commander’s Palace by Chet Overall.

Realtor Tracey Moore