Welcome to NOLA, let’s get started

The #nolabound migration continues, I am meeting a dozen people a month who are moving to New Orleans. Just this week I met a startup founder from NYC who is moving to nola, and was surprised to learn that I had just gotten off the phone with an ex-boyfriend who also is moving here.

I realized, every time I meet, I’m having the same conversation about getting “plugged in” so its time to put together a post I can share out and you can too.

STARTUPS (that might be hiring)

• Federated Sample

• Kickboard

• iSeatz

• Turbo Squid

• Audio Socket

• Receivables Exchange

COWORKING & OFFICES

• Launch Pad

• Propeller

• Beta

• Civic Center

• The Dojo

• Entrepreneurs Row

• Exchange Center

• The IP

ACCELERATORS

• Launch Pad

• Idea Village

• 4.0 Schools

• 10,000 Small Businesses

INVESTORS

• New Orleans Startup Fund

• South Coast Angel Fund

• Abstraction Ventures

EVENTS

• New Orleans Entrepreneur Week

• Capital Pitch

• CodeMKRS

• Launch Fest

• TribeCon

• Startup Weekend NOLA

• 3 Day Startup

• BarCamp NOLA

MEETUPS

• NOLA Meetup

• GNO Code

• Hack Night

• Nola UX

• Net2NO

• Nola PHP

• EdTech Meetup

• #FrontEnd Party

• NOLA Game Developers

BARS / RESTAURANTS (where startup folks hang out)

• Capdeville

• Sylvain

• Booty’s Street Food

• Cure

• Merchant

• Dinner Lab

UNIVERSITIES

• Tulane

• UNO

• Loyola

• University of Lafayette

• LSU

• Southern

• Xavier

PRESS

• Silicon Bayou

• Forbes

• NOLA.com (Entrepreneur Coverage)

• Southern Alpha

• CityBusiness

JOBS

• WorkNOLA

• AngelList

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Note 1: What am I missing? This is a work-in-progress, I’ve tried to be as comprehensive as possible, but I’m sure I’ll miss things. If you’ve got an add, please comment, and I’ll update the post.

Note 2: Many ecosystems have been putting together Startup Ecosystem decks. I’m working with Aaron Matys to turn this into a deck for NOLA.