Month: March 2015

It’s late afternoon on Sunday, March 29, and the Fargo Theater is packed with sleep-deprived but excited participants of Startup Weekend Fargo 2015. Teams sit together, talking in hushed voices,…

Two Karis are taking the stage this week at 1 Million Cups: Kari Warberg Block, founder and CEO of EarthKind, and Kari Peterson, Presdient and co-founder of Sky Blue Technologies.…

Despite its reputation as the frozen tundra, North Dakota’s new potential as “the drone state” is making it fertile ground for startups in the UAS industry. Stuart Rudolph, a self-proclaimed…

Kayla Delzer, a 2nd grade teacher at Westside Elementary School in West Fargo, won the TEDxFargo Open Mic event yesterday evening with a combined total of 629 favorites and re-tweets.…

Betty Dollinger had no idea she would be speaking in front of over a hundred people this morning. She came to watch TEDxFargo’s first ever Open Mic event, where people…

“Fargo is collaborative, not competitive.” It’s something I hear often. Two Fargo-based companies, Appareo Systems and c2renew, are illustrating that characteristic of our community through a partnership they’ve had for…

Five days after we wrote about the tech gap in Fargo, on March 9, President Obama announced the TechHire Initiative; a plan that is putting $100 million in grant money…

Monday is normally when we post about the upcoming speaker at 1 Million Cups – but this week, we’re switching it up a little. This week, in place of the…

It’s not often you get the chance to build a startup in 54 hours. But at Startup Weekend, that’s exactly what goes down. This year, Startup Weekend Fargo sold out…

We are pleased to announce the Emerging Prairie Internship Experience for the summer of 2015! The Emerging Prairie Internship Experience is an 8-week program for interns of startups or tech-based…