Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Mid City’s Simple Joe plans grand opening this weekend

Simple Joe Café and Confectionary, the first sit-down breakfast restaurant in the burgeoning Mid...

Esperance alliance with MD Anderson Cancer Center could accelerate use of anti-cancer drug

Baton Rouge-based Esperance Pharmaceuticals Inc. has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with MD...

Baton Rouge entrepreneur: Erica Ourso

This story has been revised from its original publication to reflect that European Wax...

The Katrina phenomenon: How a hurricane changed the way South Louisiana does business

On Aug. 27, 2005, thousands of New Orleans-area residents began streaming into Baton Rouge...

Six companies that relocated or expanded after Hurricane Katrina: Boudreaux’s Jewelers

(Photography by Don Kadair: Donny Boudreaux) Like so many businesses in the New Orleans area,...

Six companies that relocated or expanded after Hurricane Katrina: Zehnder Communications

(Photography by Collin Richie: Jeff Zehnder) Advertising executive Jeff Zehnder and his wife had owned...
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Six companies that relocated or expanded after Hurricane Katrina: Vivid Ink

(Photography by Don Kadair: Stephen St. Cyr) Like a lot of Baton Rougeans, Vivid Ink...

An LSU professor has invented a curious clay with a range of applications, from art to industry.

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: John Pojman) By day, John Pojman is a seersucker suit-wearing LSU...

Take a tour inside DNA Workshop’s swanky new digs

DNA Workshop 235 S. 14th St. Photography by Tim Mueller Owner/developer: 235 South 14th Street LLC Architect: DNA Workshop Contractor: Patriot...

Craft beer production in Louisiana now generates more than $462 million in economic activity

(Photography by Tim Mueller: Abita Brewing Co.) With words like Catahoula Common, Canebrake, Voodoo Bengal,...