Marisa Jackels

If you’ve been following our website, Twitter or Facebook lately, you’ve seen all the Uber hype. When the rideshare app announced this past weekend that they would be launching in…

If someone poked their head into the large conference room at CoCo last Friday, they would have heard lingo like this: “We did a feature test in Cucumber. You guys…

There’s a new face joining the Emerging Prairie staff, and already she’s bringing energy and spunk to the team. Introducing Annie Wood, Emerging Prairie’s new Director of Community Programs! Annie…

Meet the Captains, numero three! We’ve met Peter and Lydia. Now it’s time to introduce our third Startup Drinks Captain, Alayna Holkesvig. She co-runs a DJ business with her mom,…

On May 6, Myriad Mobile co-founders Jake Joraanstad and Ryan Raguse were awarded the North Dakota State University Horizon Award, one of the highest awards given to NDSU alumni. The…

Startup Drinks is 8 days away! You’ve met Drink Captain #1 Peter Schott. Now we bring you Drink Captain #2, Lydia Gilbertson. Lydia is a Web Editor at Spotlight Media,…

UBER IS HERE. At long last, Uber, a private car rideshare company based in San Francisco, has announced that they are launching in North Dakota, starting right here in Fargo…

North Dakota is offering more money to entrepreneurs this spring than it has in the past two years combined. A million dollars more. State funding for entrepreneurs has been bone-dry…

At every monthly Startup Drinks event, Emerging Prairie selects a few individuals to be event Captains. These Captains are people in the community who are doing cool work in the…

Every first Wednesday of the month, after our weekly 1 Million Cups event, the stage is opened up to employers for the live job board. On May 6, we had…