Pres Kabacoff and his company HRI Properties have had an enormous impact on the city of New Orleans – as diverse as building Beau Chene on the Northshore, pioneering inner city living by bringing back the Warehouse District, converting the Blue Plate Maynonaise factory to artist lofts and creating The Healing Center in Bywater. Pres…

The film business continues to grow so quickly that the term “Hollywood South” is becoming less of a quaint marketing moniker and more literally true with every movie that shoots here. Giant productions like Jurassic Park II and The Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise Terminator numbers 4, 5, and 6 are on the way. Part of the…

Chris Schultz gets to hear a lot of great ideas. Just walking through Launchpad, the unofficial headquarters of New Orleans’ I.T. start up world that Chris co-founded, can be enough to make your head spin. To say nothing of Chris’s day job as an angel investor through his company Voodoo Ventures. Chris talks about his…

What kind of business person looks at the New Orleans landscape and decides we need more booze? Kirk Coco from NOLA Brewing and Jed Haas from Atelier Vie, that’s who. Plus, what next for Idea Village prize winning biz, Your Nutrition Delivered?

Jerry Strahan has been wrangling Lucky Dog vendors for nearly 40 years and has the stories to prove it. Amy Wendel carries on the family tradition of Hove, the French Quarter’s French Creole perfumery. Amy and Jerry pay it forward with online marketersEmber Networks .