Entrepreneurship
New Orleans area startups are staffing up and attracting more investment funding despite headwinds from higher interest rates, inflation and pessimism over the national economy, according to Tulane University’s 2023 Greater New Orleans Startup Report.
With interest in entrepreneurship growing among students, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business will launch a new program this fall to introduce undergraduates to the fundamentals of business creation.
HEARTio, a digital diagnostic company that uses the power of artificial intelligence to help clinicians better diagnose heart disease, won first place and the grand prize of $75,000 at the 23rd annual Tulane Business Model Competition.
Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed for an Inc. story about Generation Z’s growing interest in entrepreneurship.