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Rich Collins

New Orleans

Business Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate

Articles

  • 3 days ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

    Leaders of three nonprofits on Tuesday gathered to celebrate global bank JPMorganChase's $1 million investment in a program designed to support and grow small businesses in New Orleans. It's the biggest check to date for the three-year-old Financial Wellness Collaborative, a joint project led by nonprofit business incubator Propeller with help from Thrive New Orleans and Fund 17, two entrepreneurial support organizations.

  • 1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Rich Collins

    Marucci Sports launched two decades ago with a secondhand lathe in a backyard shed, where one of its founders churned out perfectly balanced wooden baseball bats by hand. It's about as old school an origin story as can be found in the $18 billion baseball equipment market.

  • 1 week ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

    Marucci Sports launched two decades ago with a secondhand lathe in a backyard shed, where one of its founders churned out perfectly balanced wooden baseball bats by hand. It's about as old school an origin story as can be found in the $18 billion baseball equipment market.

  • 1 week ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

    Baton Rouge native Jim Odom is a musician, inventor and businessman who co-founded PreSonus Audio Electronics in 1995 to meet the growing demand for affordable digital music-making gear used in recording studios and on stage. The company’s first product, made in a temporary factory set up in the back of a Baton Rouge furniture store, won awards at an industry trade show for its ability to improve the sound quality of recorded audio.

  • 2 weeks ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

    Louisiana and South Carolina are both blessed with historic port cities, picturesque coastal wetlands and vibrant local cultures. But over the past quarter-century, the two Southern states of similar size have seen their economic fortunes diverge. Louisiana, which boasted more people and a larger economy than its Atlantic Coast rival in 2000, has watched its energy-based economy stagnate and its residents vote with their feet by moving away.

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