Czar of the Idea Village revolution Tim Williamson talks about what it takes to make it in NOLA biz with role model & rock guitarist, Turbosquid CEO Matt Wisdom.

Adrian Simpson from New Orleans Ice Cream and Danielle Boyce Batten from Cool Brew Coffee are making an allied assault on the nation.

How’s this for proof of concept? Taylor Royle from Brad Pitt’s Make it Right foundation rode out Isaac in the Lower 9th. Peter Couhig from Resource Environmental Solutions builds big businesses & saves acres of wetlands.

Dirty Coast, Dear World, and Bideo.com all grew out of the dark days of Katrina. In the wake of Isaac, company founders Blake Haney, Robert Fogarty, and Pike Barkerding assess where they are today, and where we are as a city.

“I Tweet therefore I am.” With apologies to philosophers, if your company is not on social media you’re invisible. Megan Hargroder & Will Scott explain the new universe.