Month: June 2016
TEDxFargo Where Are They Now: Aaron Feickert
By Katie Beedy
At TEDxFargo 2012: The City 2.0, as part of a special two-minute Action Pitch Session, Aaron Feickert pitched the idea of bringing Fargo together through a bike share program– but he was not…
Fargo South grad launches fashion company, featured on Fast Company
By Marisa Jackels
Scott Gabrielson, a Fargo South grad and Oxford University alumnus, launched his e-commerce fashion company Oliver Cabell with a bang today. His products, a line of bags hand-stitched in Italy, have…
Fargo native is bringing Netflix tech to video broadcasters, and investors are taking notice
By Marisa Jackels
Fargo native and Y Combinator grad Jonathan Dahl has been building a startup in stealth mode for the past year, but now the word is out and investors are taking…
Grand Forks launches free entrepreneurship program for veterans
By Marisa Jackels
North Dakota’s Center for Innovation in Grand Forks is launching a Veterans Entrepreneurship Program (VEP), the fourth in the nation, aimed at equipping veterans with the tools to start their…
eOneSolutions team launches new startup: PopDock
By Marisa Jackels
Martin Olsen, an Australia native who came to Fargo to build his company eOneSolutions, has another project up his sleeve — a software as a service (SAAS) startup called PopDock.…
Grand Forks student venture fund backs Michigan drone startup
By Marisa Jackels
Originally published in Droning On: A North Dakota UAS news blog. Written by Brandi Jewett. A Michigan company developing detect and avoid software for unmanned aircraft systems has received backing…
'It's about time': FAA releases new regulations for commercial drones
By Marisa Jackels
After years of waiting for guidelines from the Federal Aviation Administration, the drone industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as part one of those guidelines was released this week.…
TEDxFargo: Behind the design
By Katie Beedy
TEDx was created in the spirit of spreading TED’s mission: to provide a platform for “ideas worth spreading,” particularly on the topics of technology, engineering, and design. But just as important…
Techstars facilitator Michael Norton bets on Fargo, moves into Startup House
By Marisa Jackels
Michael Norton has spent the past year of his life hop-skotching around the U.S. and Canada, facilitating Startup Weekends and observing the startup communities across the board. This summer, after…
Fargo engineer and military vet invent new workout: the SpinUp
By Marisa Jackels
During Mike Sather’s third deployment in Afghanistan, he was “run into the ground” by a Special Forces candidate with an exercise routine he had never heard of before. The move…