Month: November 2017
Gratitude Pays
By Emerging Prairie
Author: Scott Beaulier, Dean of NDSU’s College of Business It’s the week after Thanksgiving and the day after Giving Tuesday as I write this piece. Yesterday at NDSU was Giving…
Creating a Culture Worth Multiplying: A Look into CoSchedule
By Brent McNeal
Success and growth have defined CoSchedule over the last four years as they have expanded their team to over 60 people and multiplied profits. As the fastest growing start-up in…
An Engineer’s Mistake: Learning that Sales and Marketing Are Critical to a Startup
By Emerging Prairie
Guest post from Chris Shellenbarger (Founder of CloudRepo) “Why do you want to run your own startup?”, is what many venture capitalists, potential co-founders, or business advisers would ask me. “I…
Cultivate: A Purposeful Collision of Agriculture and Technology
By Brent McNeal
Technology is rapidly changing the landscape of the agriculture industry. Because of this reality, Emerging Prairie hosted the first Cultivate Conference on emerging technologies affecting agriculture. “We named this conference…
The Great Northern: A Collaborative Celebration of Winter
By Brent McNeal
A cold winter in Minnesota is a guarantee. Eric Dayton is a Minneapolis native that is determined to claim the identity as America’s north and celebrate the wonder that winter…
Catalyst for Growth: The Greater Fargo-Moorhead Economic Development Corporation
By Brent McNeal
The Greater Fargo-Moorhead Economic Development Corporation is a catalyst for economic growth in the region. Its mission is to spread the unexpected and intriguing factors of Fargo-Moorhead to residents and…
ChenPo: A Company for Creative Software Solutions
By Brent McNeal
Chris Shellenbarger moved from San Francisco, California to Fargo, North Dakota to launch ChenPo, a technology company start-up named after his dog. As a software engineer, Shellenbarger is excited about…
Touring Africa and Beyond With Help of Fargo Start-up
By Brent McNeal
In 2016, Solomon Ayalew founded Touranb (Tour Africa and Beyond) to connect tourists with African travel companies. The web-based platform fills the gaps between a travel agencies, tourists, and local…