For the latest installment of its “Hard Times: A Journey Across America” series, National Public Radio is today highlighting the surge of startup businesses seen in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “Katrina did many, many things, but one is the next day everyone became an entrepreneur. We were all starting over in some way,” Idea Village co-founder and CEO Tim Williamson says in the story. New Orleans was effectively closed by the 2005 hurricane, Williamson says, so there was nothing to lose by trying something new. And some of those ideas are really starting to take hold. Inc. magazine recently called New Orleans “the coolest startup city in America.” Listen to or read the full story here, and check out a previous story in the series titled “Latinos get little thanks for rebuilding New Orleans here.
Entrepreneurial rebirth of New Orleans highlighted by NPR
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