Business Week calls New Orleans “A Startup Laboratory”

Wow, someone is finally getting it right about New Orleans. Business Week published an article yesterday highlighting what I have been saying for years: New Orleans is a great place to start a business!

It’s exciting to hear our friends highlighted in this story:

Robert LeBlanc, an EO Accelerator member who founded the nightclub Republic after the storm:

“Everybody knows that there have been a lot of problems endemic to New Orleans, and a lot of that is because it has been such an insular city for such a long time,” LeBlanc says. “We wanted to do things to connect the people who are in New Orleans with the new people who were coming to New Orleans, to create those bonds and those communities.”

Neel Sus, fellow EO Accelerator member who launched SusCo Solutions last year:

“Everybody wants everybody to succeed, and I think if anything Katrina has motivated people to open it up more.”

And most of all, a big shout out to Blake, this is an exciting highlight to mark the launch of Killian Interactive:

Blake Killian, who left a small Internet startup to found his own online marketing firm, Killian Interactive, this summer, says Web-based companies have another advantage: Their businesses didn’t suffer the same damage during Katrina that traditional companies did. “We just grabbed our laptops and headed to higher ground,” Killian says.

Congrats to all, and most of all congratulations to New Orleans entrepreneurs, we are getting our story out and New Orleans is on the move.