Month: July 2016

July seemed to ride on a constant high, starting with the Prairie Den’s first birthday and ending with TEDxFargo drawing a crowd of over 1,800 people. Here’s all that and…

Aaron Simmons, Ben Lippincott, Meg Ridl, Jessi Schmit, and Andrey Vasilyev walked into the Prairie Den on July 15th as a band of misfits. None of them had attended a Game…

Joshua Marineau’s background in business can be traced back to his sophomore year of high school, when he began working as a barista at Kaladi Brothers Coffee Company in Anchorage,…

After nearly three years as the interm executive director of North Dakota State University’s Research and Tech Park, Chuck Hoge has now signed a contract to move out of the…

The headquarters of tech startup Buzz360 may be in Uptown, Minneapolis; but most of their hiring, and their investment money, is coming from the North Dakota prairie. The startup, which…

Tom Byers, a Stanford professor who spoke at TEDxFargo this year, knows that words like “entrepreneurship” and “startup” are buzzwords. They’ve become trendy as “startup fever” sweeps the globe, college…

Mukai Selekwa has become somewhat of a poster child for the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!). The program, which was developed at the University of Rochester in 2004, teaches high school students how to start and run…

The seventh TEDxFargo event was held yesterday at the Fargo Civic Center with over 1,800 attendees and 25 speakers from all across the country. The event, which centered around a…

Heat Transfer Warehouse is a lot like Willy Wonka’s factory; but instead of fruit-flavored wallpaper and chocolate waterfalls, shelves of vinyl and glitter line the walls. Each door leads to another, forming…

Walking down Main Avenue in downtown Fargo this weekend, a piece of paper stood out against a streetlight. In blue pen, it read words that, for some triggered excitement and…