Overview

November 2, 2023

The Innovation Expo in Sioux Falls is a conference dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs, innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists, and other key players in the startup ecosystem. The event showcases entrepreneur and investor speakers sharing their expertise while also providing networking opportunities for the startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem of South Dakota and the surrounding region.

General: $50
Student: $25

Speakers

Speaker List

Additional Schedule Details

Darrell Vesterfelt

Darrell Vesterfelt

Mount Haley Holdings
Darrell is the founder and general partner at Mount Haley Holdings and started the firm in early 2021.

Darrell is a visionary leader who builds and scales businesses. He is actively interested in the growth of the companies in his portfolio and the leaders of those companies.

Darrell currently serves as the COO of School of Traditional Skills, a company he co-founded. Additionally, Darrel co-founded Homestead Living, a publishing house focused on books and magazines for those interested in Homesteading. He also founded Good People Digital in 2015, an agency specializing in equipping creator-led businesses and brands. He consults and provides executive coaching to a select group of other business leaders each year.

Previously, Darrell served as the Director of Growth for Convert Kit where his strategy took the company from $98k to $625k MRR — in just over one year.

Darrell lives in a quiet neighborhood in Stillwater, MN.
John Bunting

John Bunting

Beeso Studio
John Bunting is the founder and CEO of Beeso Studio a startup studio focused on scaling technology startups. He has 20 years of experience in technology and has worked for several Fortune 500 companies.

John has done work for; Siemens AG, Hyundai, Honda, Suzuki, Mazda, Kia, Electronic Arts, University of Phoenix, Kiewit, Creighton University, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Graybar and First National Bank.
Justin Blase

Justin Blase

TedsVintageArt.com
Justin Blase is the founder and sole full-time employee at TedsVintageArt.com, a 7-figure e-commerce brand based in Sioux Falls. The company sells wall decor products to both consumers and businesses through its website and other online marketplaces.

Justin has over 20 years of web development & digital marketing experience and specializes in the areas of media buying, marketing automation, search engine optimization and paid search.
Maddie Peschong

Maddie Peschong

Maddie Peschong Photography
Maddie Peschong is a branding photographer and coach who is obsessed with teaching creative entrepreneurs how to build a profitable business by being themselves. Through coaching, digital products, and personal branding photos, she helps women discover their magic so they can stand out in a saturated market, confidently scale their income without trading more time for money, and do only work they love. She is the creator of the Rebrand group coaching program for brand photographers, host of the Take it Personally Podcast, and founder of the White Space Studio in Sioux Falls, SD, a place where creatives can design, dream, and collaborate while developing their own irresistible brands.
Patty Post

Patty Post

Checkable
Patty Post, the visionary Founder and compassionate Chief Executive Officer of Checkable, leads an innovative healthcare revolution aimed at empowering moms to save time and reduce the cost of care through innovative at-home testing kits. In 2019, Patty launched Checkable, providing an innovative platform that offers accurate at-home tests, easy access to telemedicine and prescription providers through a user-friendly app, and the ability to make clinical, evidence-based decisions from the comfort of home. Based in North Dakota, Patty is a parent of three kids and is passionate about educating and equipping moms to take charge of their and their family's health while enjoying precious moments with her own family.
Rob Walling

Rob Walling

MicroConf
Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur who has started six companies (five of them bootstrapped). He runs MicroConf, the largest community for non-venture track SaaS founders, and TinySeed, a category-leading accelerator for B2B SaaS. He has invested in more than 150 startups.

Rob's podcast Startups for the Rest of Us has 670 episodes and well over 10 million downloads, and he's written three best-selling books about startups, including The SaaS Playbook and Start Small, Stay Small.

Rob has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc, HuffPost, CNET, and Investor's Business Daily.

He's been teaching founders how to build, launch, and grow startups for nearly two decades.

Schedule

Schedule Details

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Orpheum Theater Center
12:30 PM
Registration Opens
1:00 PM
Welcome to Expo / Event Starts
1:15 PM
John Bunting
1:50 PM
Patty Post
2:25 PM
Justin Blase
2:55 PM
Break - 25 minutes
3:20 PM
Darrell Vesterfelt
3:55 PM
Rob Walling
4:45 PM
Closing Remarks
5:00 PM
Social at Startup Sioux Falls - MarketBeat Theater

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