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Tech startups find niche in South Dakota Black Hills area
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Question of the Day By SIANDHARA BONNET - Associated Press - Monday, December 28, 2020
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Nick Hutchinson and Ed Valdez brainstorm ideas for Hutchinson Car Audio in a 400-square-foot space above their workshop with plain walls save for two whiteboards filled with questions to answer and ideas to pursue.
The 2,500-square-foot facility hosts four machines to produce components and build prototypes for their competitive subwoofers.
“We started out of our garage in our place in Box Elder,” said Hutchinson, co-founder and owner of Hutchinson Audio. “We had one machine then and we kind of manually manufactured all the subwoofers.”
Start-ups bringing more tech businesses to the Black Hills
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Rayâ¯Hespen,â¯co-founder/CEOâ¯of Rapid City-based Property Meld, provided testimony Tuesday in front of a U.S. Senate subcommittee on how venture capital gaps impact entrepreneurs and small start-up companies in different geographic areas in America.
Hespen co-founded Property Meld in 2015 and developed the company into a property-technology maintenance hub that allows property managers to use an efficient software program to better manage their rentals and tenants.
Hespen presented his business story to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, which is chaired by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. The Senate is looking at how to make start-ups happen and function really well outside of the major hubs like San Francisco, Boston and New York, Hespen told the Journal Thursday. So, we re a software company that has gained pretty decent prominence outside of those hubs.
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December 17, 2020
RAPID CITY, S.D. The owner of a Rapid City company that has increased its workforce by 1,ooo% in two years made an appearance on Capitol Hill to share his success story thanks to venture capital investments.
Property Meld CEO Ray Hespen testifying this week in Washington D.C. at a Senate subcommittee led by Senator John Thune about how South Dakota can become a hub for investment opportunities, as well as keep graduating students in South Dakota for tech jobs.
Ray Hespen, Co-Founder and CEO of Property Meld, said, “One of the most important things I wanted people to realize is that Rapid City can be the new ‘Silicon Prairie’. We’ve got this amazing opportunity where we’re showing it could be done. We’ve got a software company that’s impacting people nationally and saying how we can do more of this. And so that way we would. We would love to be the hub of South Dakota.”
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