Thanks to tech startups, Crescent City added thousands of jobs in the information sector from 2009 to 2012. Bourbon Street attracts thousands of visitors annually but tourists aren't the reason behind Cresent City's growing industry.
Many tech companies are moving to New Orleans, resulting in lots of enthusiasm and growing customer base.
Started in 2012, Apptitude - an app development studio, is on a rapid rise with their fast growing smartphone apps like New Orleans Food Trucks and Premium Parking.
Samantha Diamond and her business partner Monika Smyczek who are new to the city, are giving museums and cultural institutions the software to publish mobile applications and draw a much wider audience with their company, CultureConnect.
Apptitude and CultureConnect are just the tip of the iceberg.
Airpnp and Dinner Lab, two inventive and inspiring New Orleans startups, were featured on Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list.
But the city's biggest homegrown tech breakthrough has been iSeatz, a service that lets shoppers book multiple travel arragements on one website. iSeatz has grown its platform from $8 million in gross bookings in 2005 to $2 billion in 2013.
New Orleans is quickly becoming America's nextg great innovation hub and it seems the city will continue to see rapid growth.
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