April 4, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls With Opening Day just days away, Major League Baseball called on a Midwest design firm last Friday to create an infographic that would celebrate baseball's big day. "The challenge was could we turn around an infographic by Tuesday afternoon even though we wouldn't get the data until Tuesday morning," Lemonly founder John Meyer said … read more
March 22, 2013 by Guest Contributor
Sioux Falls (Guest post by June and Bobby George.) It's difficult to describe how we work together. It's more of an intuition, or a posture, than anything else. Nonetheless, we thought we'd share a few thoughts on the process, how we envision our collaboration, charting out the strengths just as much as the weaknesses. We'll also sprinkle in a little bit of the "why," which is, in many respects, the driving catalyst … read more
March 12, 2013 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls Hugh Weber created OTA Sessions based on a simple belief. "People of this region are just as creative, innovative and entrepreneurial as New York City or Silicon Valley," Weber said. "However, we face challenges of disconnection from each other and from the rest of the world's thought leaders. On Friday, Weber his team are set to hold the fourth annual OTA Sessions in Sioux Falls, S.D. Named to … read more
February 21, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls Two years after an appearance in an Apple ad on the small screen, the app of a Sioux Falls startup is now featured in a billboard campaign by the California company. "We couldn't be more pleased to discover that Montessorium's Intro to Letters app was featured in the new Apple iPad campaign," co-founder Bobby George said on the company's blog last week. Bobby and his wife, June, co-founded Montessorium in 2010. Today, the company is four people strong and on its fourth app, each inspired by the Montessori approach to learning. "We always feel so fortunate, and humbled, to work with the amazing folks at Apple," George said in an email … read more
January 30, 2013 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls You launched your website. You've spent months pouring over the wireframes, analyzing every pixel of design and patiently waiting for every line of code to be developed. Now what? This feeling is exactly what the new Now What? Conference in Sioux Falls, S.D. hopes to answer for attendees in April. Now What? is a one-day conference designed to help … read more
October 18, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls South Dakota's Innovation Expo returns to Sioux Falls on Tuesday with a refreshed look and new tagline: "Where suits and shirts connect." "If you think of the typical tech conference, you have your 'shirts' (designers, developers, idea people) and your 'suits' (venture capitalists, angel investors, IP lawyers), but Innovation Expo wants to see what connections can be created here in South Dakota by putting the two groups together," John T. Meyer of 9 Clouds, an inbound marketing firm, said in a written statement. The South Dakota Enterprise Institute partnered with Meyer's firm to bring a new brand, identity and format to its nine-year-old event. Organizers are … read more
September 7, 2012 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls With challenges like political policy, scalability, cost and portability, the barriers begin to stack up for any entrepreneur looking to make an impact in renewable energy. But one Sioux Falls company thinks it has the right product to make such an impact. That company is Peppermint Energy, which aims to provide energy for for all by making power personal and renewable. That Peppermint team consists of CEO Brian Gramm, COO Chris Maxwell, director of engineering Daren Davoux and … read more
June 15, 2012 by Sarah Binder
Sioux Falls Montessorium – which Silicon Prairie News profiled earlier today – is known for spreading the Montessori education approach through its suite of iPhone and iPad apps, but Hugh Weber, a parent of a student at the Baan Dek Montessori School, said that was just one way to do so. After dropping his daughter off at the Baan Dek, he and the school's co-founder, Bobby George, would sit down to brainstorm ideas. "One of the things we kept going back … read more
June 15, 2012 by Sarah Binder
Sioux Falls Apps created by Montessorium, a Sioux Falls, S.D. firm that holds high the Montessori educational approach, have been downloaded around the world – but it might not have happened without personal encouragement from Steve Jobs. Montessori education is a child-centered, one-on-one approach to learning. When Bobby and June George (left), founders of the first Montessori school in South Dakota, saw the initial … read more
May 4, 2012 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls Sioux Falls will soon have a new place for creatives to gather to collaborate and find inspiration. With a goal to "inform and engage the public on the function and impact of design in our community and daily lives," the Sioux Falls Design Center (SFDC) hopes to be a place for creatives to learn and grow. The new space is located downtown Sioux Falls and is slated to open at the beginning of the summer. It will be an all-around creative environment, complete with a long wall … read more
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