Marisa Jackels

As the world of independent gaming continues to rise, so the struggle of makin’ it rather than breakin’ it continues to plague young indie developers around the globe. Sustaining game-making…

B-ablehotels, a startup born out of the first place winning idea at Startup Weekend Grand Forks, launched their Kickstarter for $97,000 last week. The money is being raised to help…

Elena Parrello, a fifth year senior studying unmanned aircraft engineering at University of North Dakota, is determined that there is a better way to inspect sewers. Rather than sending people…

In late July, a man named Michell Abner Espinoza was released of three felony accounts of money laundering based on the fact that he was laundering bitcoin, not a traditional…

Recent investments from the 701 angel fund, a statewide angel fund launched last year in North Dakota, show they are placing bets on biotechnoloy and precision agriculture. The fund, launched…

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…

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…

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…