Andrea Chen’s socially conscious business incubator Propeller: a Force For Social Innovation takes an entrepreneur with a good idea and turns it into good for the community. Reid Stone’s Hero Farm takes those socially conscious businesses out into the world.

NOLA BOUND successfully recruited young entrepreneurs to New Orleans. Meet two of them: founder of App building company Apptitude Chris Boyd and founder of fashion illustration studio MarketteNOLA Marianne Rodriguez.

Mignon Faget discusses her controversial Stop The Violence gun pin, Brent McCrossen talks about the digital music revolution and his part in it with audiosocket.

Jazz Fest – our annual overdose of music and food – is synonymous with New Orleans. Smoothie King – healthy juice food alternative – is the antithesis of the city. Both businesses were NOLA born in the 70’s and are now international brands. Meet Smoothie King‘s Tom O’Keefe and the Jazz & Heritage Foundation‘s Scott…

Dominik Knoll’s [World Trade Center][link1] presides over $60b worth of trade annually through New Orleans. Bill Borne’s Baton Rouge based [Amedisys][link2] is one of the biggest players in US healthcare. Dominik and Bill paint a fascinating portrait of New Orleans and Louisiana in the big picture, present and future. [link1]: http://www.wtcno.org/[link2]: http://www.amedisys.com/