NOLAbound to highlight Crescent City’s entrepreneurial spirit

Applications are being taken for a new program designed to give 25 entrepreneurs the chance to “experience, document, and share their unfiltered impressions of the ‘new’ New Orleans, with a focus on the entrepreneurial movement within four sectors: arts-based businesses, biosciences, digital media, and sustainable industries.” The all-expenses-paid program, called NOLAbound, is open to professionals across the country. The program will take place March 14-18, coinciding with the fourth annual New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week. All participants will be asked to share their observations about—and insights into—Greater New Orleans and its entrepreneurial community through the NOLAbound website, as well as their own social media networks. The entire five-day program will be filmed, and a documentary will premiere in October 2012. Applications are due by Friday, Dec. 16, and can be found here. The project is a collaborative effort of Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Greater New Orleans Inc. and The Idea Village, with funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.