It’s probably no exaggeration to say that the boom in entrepreneurial business in New Orleans wouldn’t have happened without the business incubator, Idea Village. Robbie Vitrano was one of the founders of Idea Village. He was also one of the founders of the ad agency Trumpet and the revolutionary Naked Pizza. Today, Robbie talk to…
Read MoreIngrid Victoria is best known in the world of drag queens as the maker of extravagant eyelashes. If you’ve seen drag queens on TV or on stage and wondered where the heck you get eyelashes like that, now you too can get hooked up for just $25 (or $12.50 for one eyelash) at Chimera Lashes. But…
Read MoreRay Lopez is a professional MMA fighter. Ray has a gym in New Orleans, NOLA MMA, where he teaches people to kill other people – only in self defense, not randomly – but the greatest thrill in his life comes from getting in a cage with another human and trying to kill him. Nothing in…
Read MoreFor most of recorded history, we humans have had a home from which we have gone forth to find food. Now, things have changed. Today, thanks to food delivery apps like Waitr, we can stay home and have food brought to us. In the course of human activity, it’s a fundamental shift. Maybe that’s why Waitr has…
Read MoreThere’s a fine line between business and gambling. In both, you’re taking an amount of money and by doing something with it hoping to make it into a larger amount of money. Real gamblers will tell you it’s not all chance, there’s an element of skill in whatever it is they’re doing. Real business people will…
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