Company History 

Three years ago, the founders of SimonShows were working as consultants building custom, multi-media, e-learning courses for companies like General Motors, Proctor & Gamble and Kodak. These courses were powerful tools to train and communicate with employees and other shareholders but averaged a staggering $500,000 each to produce. One such course created for Kodak was particularly powerful because it was loaded with 126 video clips of senior management that were captured by flying around the world and conducting video taped interviews. In addition to this, the course also included a week's worth of footage shot in Pittsburgh of a fictitious company role-playing to different situations that the company could potentially face, as well as Flash animations and interactive diagrams created to help explain the content. Kodak spent a considerable amount of money creating these multi-media assets and was never able to successfully repurpose them for other uses.

It was this course for Kodak that set in motion the creation of what has now become SimonShows. The mission was to create a technology platform that would move the creation and delivery of multi-media interactive content to the non-technical user by providing functionality that would enable them to leverage existing media content to create effective and interactive training and communication tools.

SimonShows, LLC is THE provider of web-publishing tools that let people with no technical skills build and instantly deliver, receive, collect and organize rich media presentations over the internet. It allows users to manage and post multiple formats of media content in one place, organize and re-purpose already developed content and maintain control while adding value to the media.

SimonShows was founded originally as LearningPoint in August 2005 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company has been self-funded by the founders in addition to receiving funding through Idea Foundry's Transformation Fellowship program in March 2007. We were also accepted into the Managed Development Services Tech Incubator program and received a grant from the Greater Oakland Keystone Innovations Zone's Kick Start Partnership Program.