Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Louisiana Economic Development has launched a Diversity in Entrepreneurship Initiative to accelerate growth in...

An all-women video game design studio hopes to bring a concept first hatched in a St. Joseph’s Academy classroom to the marketplace. 

The stimulus funds providing fee relief for certain Small Business Administration-backed loans just ran out at noon Wednesday, a day before the program was due to sunset. But there are still extra benefits available to small business borrowers, Inc. reports.

Nearly three-fourths of small businesses expect to increase sales in the next six months—but...

Baton Rouge-based Dyke Nelson Architecture received the highest-level award from the American Institute of Architects Louisiana chapter for its design of the DNA Workshop on the corner of Government and 14th streets, according to an AIA announcement.

Less than one year after its launch, Baton Rouge-based tech startup I Hate Receipts has raised half of the $1.5 million it is targeting in its seed round of funding, and has signed a deal with online retail platform Shopify, which will expose potentially millions of users to the company’s app.

Local entrepreneurs have launched a cryptocurrency and are building a platform they say will allow investors to profit by picking up-and-coming athletes.

Baton Rouge-based IT firm Vinformatix is positioning itself for growth in the government contracting sector through a new, joint venture with The Parnin Group, an Alexandria, Virginia, consulting firm that specializes in working with governmental agencies.

Southeast Louisiana farmers, who were already in the middle of their traditional slow season, are now dealing with fallen trees, flooded fields and flattened crops as a result of Hurricane Ida. Some Baton Rouge-area growers may not be back in business until mid or late October.

With rental cars still in short supply, enterprising car owners are renting their vehicles out to travelers through Turo, an online carsharing marketplace, Axios reports. It could cause a shift in the rental car industry similar to what was seen when Airbnb took off.