Baton Rouge

Our last full day in Louisiana was spent taking an hour and a half drive down to New Orleans to meet a professor who urges students to work collaboratively and tap their innate ability to use and adapt technology to their entrepreneurial ventures.

Doctor Ralph Maurer, who now teaches at Tulane University, taught a management innovation class this past spring at Louisiana State University.

Maurer had two students this past spring develop platforms for an iPhone application and rising artists through a website called ireptheboot.com.

After we left New Orleans, we met the creator of ireptheboot.com, Kyle Bashay. Bashay said people like to network with like-minded individuals and his site give these artists a common ground. Bashay said that without the Internet, his venture would not be possible.

Tomorrow we have one last interview scheduled before we hit the road for a seven-hour drive back to Dallas, TX so we can catch our flight back to Syracuse, NY.

Thanks Baton Rouge for a great time!

-Racquel