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GIFT'D BizTech Challenge 2021

BizTech Challenge™ Rewards Next Generation of Louisiana Entrepreneurs

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The BizTech Challenge™ is a STEM-based pitch competition, developed by Nexus Louisiana, that allows students attending Louisiana’s historically Black colleges and universities to validate their business ideas, build real businesses and even win some cash. “These students are so bright and we want to demonstrate that entrepreneurship is an accessible, viable pathway from them,” says […]

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The BizTech Challenge™ Shines a Light on HBCU Tech Entrepreneurs

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The next founders of a startup unicorn may be on a stage pitching their business this Thanksgiving weekend in New Orleans. Applications are open until Sept. 30 for the BizTech Challenge™, an entrepreneurial competition for students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The winning team could earn up to $10,000 and expert mentorship. Calvin Mills

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Meet Nexus Louisiana’s Newest Board Member Sue Kozik

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Sue Kozik joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana in August 2018 as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer. In this role, Kozik develops IT strategies and solutions that enable Blue Cross to maintain its leadership position in a constantly changing and intensely competitive healthcare marketplace. She also has responsibility for the Enterprise Project

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Prysm Capital Investments Wants to Make Cryptocurrency Investing Easier

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The rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrency can be challenging for investors to decipher. Prysm Capital Investments wants to change that. Founded by recent Louisiana State University grads, the New Orleans company aims to make Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies more accessible to individual investors by managing portfolios for them. In June, the early-stage company received

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Hurricane Katrina Drove Randall Nachman to Revolutionize Digital Documents

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Randall Nachman is a serial entrepreneur who can turn tragedy into opportunity. In the early 2000s, he developed loan software to automate processes and signatures, long before electronic signatures were common. When Hurricane Katrina wiped out his New Orleans-based mortgage brokerage’s physical records, his in-house software had digital copies. “Thankfully, all the documents were in

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How MasteryPrep Came Out of the Pandemic Stronger

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The coronavirus pandemic dramatically changed education, generally not for the better. Students discovered school just isn’t the same when physically separated from peers and teachers (and parents discovered work becomes way more difficult when you’re simultaneously educating your children). Like many in the education field, MasteryPrep had to adapt quickly. They were not only able

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