Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Plenty of MBAs finish business school with a hot startup pitch for investors, but...

Bernhard Capital Partners remains on a growth trajectory and has begun raising its third fund.

Inflation has many companies deciding whether to raise prices or take smaller profit margins, and local car washes are no exception.

One Baton Rouge company, MatchPoint Connection, finds itself perfectly positioned to serve as matchmaker.

There’s never been a better time to start your own company, Axios reports, which partially explains why America just witnessed the biggest business startup boom of our lifetimes, according to the U.S. census.

Kayla Gibson, a senior at Liberty Magnet High School, was awarded $5,000 in seed funding at the Young Entrepreneurs Academy of Baton Rouge Community Pitch last week.

The Louisiana chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business backs Gov. John Bel Edwards’ proposal to spend $550 million in one-time funding to shore up the unemployment insurance trust fund, director Dawn Starns McVea says. 

In December, Visit Baton Rouge announced a partnership with visitation intelligence company Arivalist, and local business owners can now benefit from the data being generated.

It's been two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-10 a global pandemic, and since then nearly every facet of business has been upended. 

Supper Club, the upscale restaurant concept from Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux CEO Brandon Landry, is scheduled to open in mid-May.