STURGIS, S.D. – During Wednesday night’s Music on Main, a new sculpture was unveiled at the corner of Third and Main in downtown Sturgis. Titled “Horse,” the sculpture is by local artist Travis Sorensen. It consists of stainless steel and took about 700 hours of work. The unveiling was with the cooperation of the Greater […]
East Texans and out-of-towners will see, hear and even feel aircraft from old bombers to new fighter jets as they fly through the air at the Rose City Airfest this
STURGIS, S.D. – The Sturgis Art Walk took place Saturday as part of the annual Sturgis Arts Festival. Five new scupltures featuring local and regional artists were unveiled on Sturgis’ Main Street. The first unveiling was ‘Conceptual Guitar,’ whose artist is Jefferson Davis. The sculpture at Main and Third Street features parts of a motorcycle […]
Non-traditional small IT contractors: A well-established niche that is here to stay
Shaun So is a former reservist in Army intelligence who founded and now runs a small, 15-person tech firm called The So Company. After serving eight years in the Reserves, three in full-time duty assignments (including a year in Afghanistan), he sort of wandered around first doing contract intelligence work for a defense IT firm. So subsequently started business school and also invented a mobile app that he sold and made some money.
He then sought to mix his three skills – knowledge of government, tech expertise and writing talents he developed as an intelligence analyst – to start a business advising tech startups who wanted to act as subs selling their software to IT primes in the government marketplace.