Treme resident LouAnn Lofton, author of Wall Street Journal best-seller Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl, & Julia Ballard from Silicon Bayou News don’t mince words.

New Orlean’s most original thinkers: Arman Sadeghpour, co-founder & CEO of Theodent the chocolate toothpaste & Sean Simone co-founder of Yellow Jacket, the cell phone case that’s also a 650k volt stun gun.

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.