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Baton Rouge Startup Block Aims to Simplify Lawn Care While Giving Back to the Community

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Baton Rouge-based startup Block is using a high-tech approach to disrupt the traditionally low-tech industry of lawn care while also making a positive community impact. Block is a landscaping technology startup that is centered around an on-demand lawn-care app. With Block, homeowners can select the lawn-care services they need, get clear pricing, schedule service and […]

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Should Startup Founders Take Vacations? An Expert Weighs In.

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It takes relentless drive for a startup founder to guide a business idea from nothing into a dynamic, life-changing company. But that same tenaciousness can often cause entrepreneurs to overlook an important aspect of business success: time away from the business. Vacations, downtime and work-life balance can be easily overlooked in a startup culture that

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‘Artrepreneurship’ — 3 Tips for Turning Your Creative Endeavor into a Business

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Artistic endeavors can be big business or a fulfilling creative side hustle to a steady day job — and either approach is fine, a group of Baton Rouge entrepreneurs said during a recent panel discussion. Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week brought together six entrepreneurs — three husband-and-wife teams — for a talk on how they’ve turned

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Small-Business Roundtables Help Emerging Tech Companies Share Ideas

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Leaders from emerging Baton Rouge technology companies are teaming up for a yearlong series of roundtable discussions to exchange ideas and experiences that can help them succeed in the competitive high-tech marketplace. Coordinated by Louisiana Economic Development, the Small and Emerging Business Development Roundtables will take place in eight cities across the state over the

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How Memo is Raising the Bar for School and Non-Profit Fundraisers

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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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