Entrepreneurship & Small Business

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has begun recruiting businesses to fill empty downtown storefronts. 

When ThreeSixtyEight co-founder and CEO Kenny Nguyen relaunched his Assembly Required entrepreneurship series after more than three years without an event, he personified one of his most important lessons about entrepreneurship: “Keep momentum going.”

The LSU AgCenter Food Innovation Institute, or Foodii, has welcomed six new tenants into its stable of food-based startup companies.

While Director Scott Sullivan developed the concept, he says he partnered with East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore to make it happen. The film will be part of a curriculum Moore’s office will roll out later, possibly early next year.

The result is Tiny Abode Interiors, a full-service design business catering to college students and their often smaller-than-average living accommodations. 

Gage Telephone Systems, a Baton Rouge-based managed technology service provider, is joining other technology companies in incorporating AI systems into their services, specifically as it relates to detecting potentially malicious activity involving information technology. 

Baton Rouge-based Empire Wingz is expanding its footprint in the Capital Region with a fourth restaurant location. 

Forty-four Louisiana legislators, 12 in the Senate and 32 in the House, consistently voted to support small businesses during this year’s regular session, according to a scorecard published by the National Federation of Independent Businesses this week. 

Jabby’s Pizza plans to open a new location in the Acadian Perkins Plaza shopping center, which would mark its fourth location overall, co-owner Albina Brahimi says. 

The Small Business Administration is undergoing an overhaul that it says will simplify loan...