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Botlink creative director leaves to start own company

Local graphic designer Adam Wiedman has left his role as creative director at Botlink to launch his own design company. The announcement came yesterday, with the launch of  a Wiedman Design…

June 2016: Emerging Prairie's Month in Review

A lot happened in June. And we’re not just saying that. Here’s the highlight reel: Fargo’s second annual Drone Focus Conference brought in over 300 attendees from around the world.…

Fargo South grad launches fashion company, featured on Fast Company

Scott Gabrielson, a Fargo South grad and Oxford University alumnus, launched his e-commerce fashion company Oliver Cabell with a bang today. His products, a line of bags hand-stitched in Italy, have…

Fargo native is bringing Netflix tech to video broadcasters, and investors are taking notice

Fargo native and Y Combinator grad Jonathan Dahl has been building a startup in stealth mode for the past year, but now the word is out and investors are taking…

Grand Forks launches free entrepreneurship program for veterans

North Dakota’s Center for Innovation in Grand Forks is launching a Veterans Entrepreneurship Program (VEP), the fourth in the nation, aimed at equipping veterans with the tools to start their…

eOneSolutions team launches new startup: PopDock

Martin Olsen, an Australia native who came to Fargo to build his company eOneSolutions, has another project up his sleeve — a software as a service (SAAS) startup called PopDock.…

Grand Forks student venture fund backs Michigan drone startup

Originally published in Droning On: A North Dakota UAS news blog. Written by Brandi Jewett. A Michigan company developing detect and avoid software for unmanned aircraft systems has received backing…

'It's about time': FAA releases new regulations for commercial drones

After years of waiting for guidelines from the Federal Aviation Administration, the drone industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as part one of those guidelines was released this week.…

Techstars facilitator Michael Norton bets on Fargo, moves into Startup House

Michael Norton has spent the past year of his life hop-skotching around the U.S. and Canada, facilitating Startup Weekends and observing the startup communities across the board. This summer, after…

Fargo engineer and military vet invent new workout: the SpinUp

During Mike Sather’s third deployment in Afghanistan, he was “run into the ground” by a Special Forces candidate with an exercise routine he had never heard of before. The move…