Tim Williamson has spent decades talking up the entrepreneurial promise of New Orleans.

In 2000, he co-founded Idea Village, a business incubator that helped create a local startup culture and gave early support to some of the city's most successful tech founders. More recently, he’s been promoting The Nieux , a venue on St. Charles Avenue that seeks to connect entrepreneurs with opportunity.

So it struck a chord when Williamson, ever the optimist, took to Substack recently and posted that he was “sounding the alarm” about the challenges of living and starting a business in New Orleans.

“For founders with families trying to build in New Orleans — the math doesn’t work,” he wrote. Housing costs, sky-high insurance rates, school tuition and ever-present infrastructure issues are all mak

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