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.

Alt Startup – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

One of the knocks against New Orleans as a place to start up a business is that we can’t be all that great or we would have produced a Google or Facebook or some sort of spectacular big-bucks success by now.

But, despite what you might think, not everybody wants to be a billionaire. Some people have a great idea for a small creative business. They don’t need millions of dollars of venture capital – they just need a bit of help to make it happen.

Kristy Oustalet

That’s where Kristy Oustalet and her creative business incubator, Venture Pop, come in. 

Aaron Walker

Aaron Walker is the founder of Camelback Ventures where they focus on investing in businesses founded by women and people of color.

Aaron Walker, Kristy Oustalet, Peter Ricchiuti

Camelback Ventures and Venture Pop are pioneering alternative approaches to business that are turning out to be as successful as they are unconventional.

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

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