There are a lot of great reasons to live in New Orleans, but “making money” is not typically at the top of the list. Even though the business climate is undeniably better here now than we’ve seen in decades, money is not what drives most of us. But of course, we can’t live without it….

Last year Americans spent over 55 billion dollars on their pets. To put that in some sort of perspective, that’s more than most countries in the world spend on their military. In New Orleans, Zeus Place is one of a number of 21st Century pet boarding and day care facilities where pets are treated somewhere…

“Do something you re passionate about” is tossed about so often as the key to starting up an entrepreneurial business that it s become all but a cliche. This episode of Out to Lunch will restore your faith in the place of passion in business, and if you ve ever thought about starting up your…

Drew Bevolo is the current torch carrier of his family firm, Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights, founded in 1945. Burt Benrud is the current head the family business Cafe du Monde which started up in the 1860’s. These two standard bearers of New Orleans’ enduring icons talk about the present, the future, and entrepreneur NOLA Pie Guy.

New Orleans annual Entrepreneur Week is a week-long throw-down of entrepreneurs and the men and women who love them. Resembling a melange of New York’s Fashion Week, TED talks, and Cirque du Soleil of business, classes and seminars fill out the day around the star events where NOLA entrepreneurs get to pitch their Idea-Village-labeled “crazy…