Starting a business is exciting — and fraught with challenges. Many of them are fairly common, however, and knowing what you’re up against will help nurture your startup through those heady early years. “There are a lot of things that can be overcome with drive,” says Joshua Loeske, CEO at Quality Sitework Materials and an […]
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Baton Rouge-based startup Property Sprocket is looking to disrupt the real estate listing market.
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At a recent Tech Park Academy presentation, the team from Realized Designs Projects shared the 10 steps to bringing a physical product to market. Here’s some of what they shared.
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Ed-tech startup founder Sabari Raja explains how the lean startup methodology helped her company thrive.
Local entrepreneur Leah Haight’s upcoming mobile app, CuteNation, took the $1,000 top prize at PitchBR‘s third competition of 2017.
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As your company grows, you’ll need to find new ways to keep the employees who helped get you there stick around for the next stage of growth. The standard salary and benefits packages will only take you so far, but a long-term compensation plan can keep key workers engaged for the long haul. “The bigger
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Financial statements are a complete mystery for far too many small-business owners. Some might scan a monthly income statement and balance sheet, but few feel comfortable analyzing a statement of cash flows, much less using the valuable information it has to offer to make critical business decisions. The advent of QuickBooks and other accounting software
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Benevolent hackers with IT cybersecurity firm EtherMon were able to remotely take control of several earth-moving excavators and drive them around via the internet during a recent risk assessment for a company with heavy industrial equipment. EtherMon CEO Brandon Reeves says the exercise, which was authorized by the company, was a stark example of why
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There’s no getting around it: Email is essential to modern communication, but it can also be a time-sink, especially for busy business owners. You can’t shut it down completely, of course, but the good news is there are plenty of ways for you to get a better handle on it, manage it effectively and get
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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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