If you’re like most people, you found out very early on, probably in pre-school, that things go a lot better when people like you. Nothing much has changed since you were 4.  From the factory floor, to the boardroom, to the halls of regulatory government, to million-dollar marketing campaigns, being successful in commerce is very…

How many thousand times have you heard someone talk about working remotely, saying, “The great thing about the internet is you can work anywhere.”  Well, working in the oil field brings a whole new meaning to working “remotely.” It’s remote alright, and it’s still tech, but it’s of necessity, tech Acadiana style. If you started…

If you had a dollar for every time someone on radio or TV said, “Here in Acadiana we’re known for our food,”  you probably would have made about a hundred dollars this month already. You wouldn’t be as wealthy, though, if you were collecting a dollar on the sentence, “Here in Acadiana there is a sizeable…

You’d be forgiven for wondering what a show about Acadiana business would be doing examining biographies. Or boxing. And especially biographies and boxing on the same show. Because you’re human, you’re pre-disposed to look for a link between subjects. To try and make order out of chaos. The chaos of ordinary – or extraordinary –…

Oil is still big business in Acadiana, even if it’s not quite as big it used to be. The IT business is quietly growing here too, specially in Lafayette. What’s interesting about both the natural resource industry and the broadband-based-business is the way they’re growing beyond our borders. We’re now looking at Acadiana-based business from…

How often is it that we aim for one career and land in another? You go to college to be a painter and you end up a graphic designer, or you study philosophy and end up a lawyer. For most of us, we’re lucky if we can do work we love on nights and weekends….

Everybody likes pretty pictures and good cheese. Well, maybe not everybody likes cheese, but when you team it up with grapes, chocolate, and other goodies it becomes something altogether different – edible art. Pretty Pictures, Edible Art & Commerce Running a startup in any industry is building a plane in midair. You might think you…

If you don’t have hours to spare in a doctor’s waiting room, or you live in a remote spot of Acadiana, you’re going to love the advent of Tele-Health today. You can now get first-class healthcare anywhere in Acadiana. We’re getting a lot of what we need from the internet these days. You can pick…

Your grocery and drug store purchase cards allow the stores to predict when you’re going to need laundry detergent and Advil, and when you don’t buy it in time they send you a coupon to get you to come back in. Then there’s an even more advanced (some might call it “insidious”) form of Artificial…