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 .

Seth Hamstead from full service butcher Cleaver & Co and Tess Monaghan from online farmer’s market Good Eggs lead the local revolution back to the future of good, old fashioned, locally grown, seasonal and sustainable food. And they deliver.

At either end of the energy spectrum, Robert Suggs from South Coast Solar and Todd Hornbeck from Hornbeck Offshore Services are in very different worlds. But they do have a few ideas in common about NOLA Bikinis