In a marathon presentation ceremony at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Convention, held on 1 June in Milwaukee, HeyGov won the Information Know-how group soon after 5 months of 1st submitting its concept to the Wisconsin Governor’s Company Plan Contest (BPC). The contest, held per year, has noticed above 4300 candidates considering that its inception in 2014. It is a very aggressive and prestigious contest.
Dustin Overbeck, founder and CEO, laughingly describes that he practiced the presentation by walking up and down, times prior to. He claims he also had a haircut that “…looks like he didn’t have a haircut” and wore funky socks. He suggests that the socks reminded him that he would like to have entertaining and enjoys to remedy local municipal troubles.
HeyGov, a 1st, is a suite of equipment for regional municipalities: the toolkit at this time is made up of four applications known as HeyLicense, HeyGovPay, HeyReserve and Hey311 – all individually formulated to make ‘Clerk-work’, a expression Overbeck coined, easier. By earning use of details technology and the innovation it provides HeyGov can digitize processes like puppy licenses, operator licenses, boat start permits and extra into an on the net fillable type, with swift payment with a credit score card – also on the internet. The paper binder in its entirety, properly regarded to local municipal staff members with the reservations of municipal services, are now digitally accessible with HeyReserve.
Overbeck claims that the procedure was daunting at times but he is grateful for the steering of the mentors and the support from good friends, family members, colleagues and neighborhood associates. He clarifies that the initially try to enter the Enterprise Strategy Contest in 2021 didn’t conclude the way he hoped for and he vowed to have interaction with anything he experienced if provided one more opportunity. Overbeck is at the moment engaging with attainable partners for seed funding until finally the stop of July.
The highway for this Door County entrepreneur does not conclude listed here, Dustin plans to create a different 19 apps and offer them in bundles according to the municipal desires. “Packages are fluid and will be arranged according to what the largest pain level is, in a municipality…” he explains.
HeyGov observed its inception in 2021, in Sturgeon Bay. Dustin Overbeck, offers an extraordinary record as a company owner, as president of City Website, Wisconsin’s major municipal world wide web design agency, and as the proprietor of Tweak Agency, a area branding & internet company he obtained in 2019. Dustin volunteers as a business mentor via the Doorway County Economic Development Company (DCEDC), mentoring little small business house owners. He is a graduate of Sevastopol Superior University and retains an M.B.A. from Thunderbird College of World wide Management (now component of ASU).
