Back when he was a young student and budding artist obsessing over the latest release from Nintendo, Godric Johnson knew he wanted to create his own video games someday — but there was nobody to show him how to make that dream a reality. Today, Johnson, the founder of Baton Rouge-based video game developer Jetstreame, […]
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Three years ago Baton Rouge entrepreneur Travis Broussard and his wife, Summer, had grown increasingly disillusioned with hawking candy, magazines and cookie dough to raise money for the school their children attend. “We got tired hitting up our family and friends selling junk we can buy at the grocery store,” Broussard says. “We really started
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Pixel Dash Studios co-founders Evan Smith and Jason Tate launched their Baton Rouge-based video game development company in 2009 with a single desk at the Louisiana Technology Park, grinding away at projects for other companies as they gradually built their business and plotted a more ambitious future. “We had the idea to try to do a
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In 2008, Rob Guba called out multiple times to his teenage son as the youth walked down a hallway at home. Focused intently on his mobile phone, the son ignored him and stepped straight into a wall. Guba, who is the CEO of the Baton Rouge-based technology company Cellcontrol, had a moment of parental panic
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Software developer Chris Dykes was two years into a stint as chief information officer of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals when he decided to step out on his own and pursue his entrepreneurial dream. “I was 35 at that point so I said ‘If I don’t do it now I’ll never do it,’ ”
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Businesses have had to shift the way they think about marketing and public relations amid seismic changes from the rise of social media as a news source and an onslaught of millennials entering the workforce. “Everybody’s using digital tools to communicate, and what’s really interesting, especially in the world of PR, is that everybody’s getting
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It all started when Craig Gehring got perfect scores on the ACT and SAT. Parents were soon calling him to tutor their kids on standardized tests, and he’s been involved in test preparation ever since. But he says he noticed early on that there were a lot of students who needed help but whose parents
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It’s easy for large companies to build their own IT departments and hire software developers, but what about smaller companies that need tech support but don’t know who to call? Sixteen years ago Devin Zito saw an opportunity to solve that problem. “While working at nonprofit and corporate IT for several years, I realized that
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The pressure was on at the PitchBR finale as three companies pitched their products to Innovation Catalyst, a non-profit venture development organization. At stake was the opportunity to participate in a private due-diligence phase to receive up to $250,000 from the Catalyst Fund. The three finalists — Lubricity Labs, OfficerReports.com and Memo — made their case for the big prize
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Dr. Boyce Clark, CEO of Lubricity Labs, LLC, was selected by a panel of three judges as the winner of Thursday night’s PitchBR event. Innovation Catalyst, a Baton Rouge venture organization, will be advancing Clark to a due-diligence phase, where he may receive up to $250,000 in investment from the Catalyst Fund. Lubricity Labs, LLC
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