Austin Gerth
Starting Eleven is the world’s first live daily fantasy platform for soccer
By Austin Gerth
Starting Eleven is revolutionizing fantasy soccer for fans around the world with its live daily platform, which they boast of as the world’s first for the sport. Starting Eleven CEO…
Fargo-Moorhead’s Immigrant Development Center creates economic opportunities for new Americans
By Austin Gerth
For more than 15 years, the Immigrant Development Center of Fargo-Moorhead (IDC) has been helping new Americans gain a foothold in the local business community. IDC Executive Director Fowzia Adde…
Redemption Road Ministries works to provide transitional housing to recovering addicts
By Austin Gerth
Since 2014, Redemption Road Ministries has been helping local people struggling with drug addiction by addressing recovery, life skills, and transitional housing needs. Redemption Road founder and ministry director Pastor…
Positive Coaching Alliance helps build "Better Athletes, Better People"
By Austin Gerth
Jim Thompson’s Positive Coaching Alliance has been helping youth athletes build character through positivity for twenty years. Thompson will speak on Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) at 1 Million Cups Fargo…
Entrepreneur behind Weave Got Maille launches new eco-friendly straw company 13 Straws
By Austin Gerth
Ada, MN chain maille company Weave Got Maille is making an effort to tackle the environmentally unfriendly use of plastic straws with the launch of a new company, 13 Straws,…
Tillable alters the landscape of farmland rental
By Austin Gerth
A new web platform, Tillable, is helping bring transparency to the farmland rental market. Tillable is designed to ameliorate an issue co-founder and CEO Corbett Kull saw in the dynamic…
The Vitals app creates transparency between first responders and vulnerable community members
By Austin Gerth
A new app is making communication between first responders and people with special needs or visible or invisible conditions that might affect their behavior easier and clearer. For example, a…
TeacherSpark brings teachers together to share ideas and set off classroom innovation
By Austin Gerth
A small cohort of North Dakota teachers are hoping to foster education innovation with an app that marries the structure of dating apps to a professional development focus. The app,…
"Happy Employees! Happy Customers!" are the bedrock of Bell Bank's success
By Austin Gerth
Over a more than 50-year history, Bell Bank has developed from a single Fargo location to a powerhouse of independent banking, doing business in every state. The company is now…
Creativity and quality are calling cards of Fargo-based sporting goods giant Scheels
By Austin Gerth
Fargoans new and old likely know Scheels as the enormous sporting goods emporium on 45th Street, so it may surprise many to learn the retail giant began life with the…