Step by Step
In honor of the return of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (in person!) a few months ago, I went searching for an interesting entrepreneur for our March cover story and Doug Walner quickly…
Biz The Magazine - March 2022
Find Your Tribe
This month, The Idea Village is hosting its annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), and I’m excited to say that over the past year the ecosystem fostering entrepreneurs from New Orleans has…
The Goal Guy
Doug Walner is used to splitting his time — both between coasts and between industries. Walner has built a bicoastal career running, and mostly growing, businesses in California and Louisiana and is currently involved with two very different local…
The Craft Without the Booze
Mockly flavors Eye Opener tangerine, lemon, peach, basil, lemongrass Love Bite pomegranate, ginger, lemon, apple, rosemary, tonic water Baron Von Blue blueberry, mint, rose, soda water Connect with Mockly DrinkMockly.com Instagram: @drinkmockly In a city where…
Behind the Build
a global pandemic, a category 4 hurricane, supply chain struggles — these are all challenges essentially every business and endeavor has had to battle over the past few years. But when it comes to some of last year’s most notable…
Crime Fighters
In early February, Biz New Orleans asked members of the “New Orleans 500” what needs to be done to stop the recent rise in violent crime, and how the business community can help. To address the immediate crisis, respondents suggested…
Healthcare
How does your healthcare facility use technology to provide a more personalized patient experience? Dr. Lana Joseph-Ford President High Level Speech and Hearing Center We are committed to improving patients’ hearing, so when we began hearing complaints about earbuds, our…
Gregoire Tillery
Did you know? Tillery started We Dat’s Chicken & Shrimp in 2013, when he cashed in his 401(k) to buy a food truck. Almost a decade (and 262,000 Instagram followers) later, the company boasts four locations and a national…
A New Era Begins
Chris Price is an award-winning journalist and public relations principal. When he’s not writing, he’s avid about music, the outdoors, and Saints, Ole Miss and Chelsea football. The NFL’s 2022 League…
Have Fire, Need Business Plan
Keith Twitchell spent 16 years running his own business before becoming president of the Committee for a Better New Orleans. He has observed, supported and participated in entrepreneurial ventures at the street,…
Long-term Investment
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The Next Step
Eight friends walk into a bar…. Sounds like the clichéd start to an old joke. But when it came to New Orleans’ future, the result of eight friends getting together in a CBD bar 20 years ago was anything but.…
Eats Without Meats
Jennifer Gibson Schecter was once a tourist in New Orleans herself and is now proud to call NOLA home. The lure and lore of the New Orleans food scene draws millions…
Cooking Up Successful Startups
Poppy Tooker has spent her life devoted to the cultural essence that food brings to Louisiana, a topic she explores weekly on her NPR-affiliated radio show, Louisiana Eats! From farmers markets to…
Interest Rate Increases are Coming
Remember when people were scrambling for toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, back in March 2020? Almost two years later, that shift in scarcity of one bathroom item has now spread to a shortage in houses. The supply…
Coming Soon to a Street Near You
Despite all of last year’s challenges, the pandemic didn’t managed not…
The Business Community is Talking
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Michael A. Roussel Jr.
Michael A. Roussel Jr. VP of Marketing | Xplore Federal Credit Union Fun Fact My father had a lot of good quotes, and if he didn’t say this every day, he didn’t say it at all: “Work to live; don’t…
