Marisa Jackels

With the final awards of the NDSU Innovation Challenge being announced next week, we’ll be featuring a few “sneak-peeks” of the products that the next generation of entrepreneurs is working…

One year ago today, Annika Nynas officially joined Emerging Prairie as the event-planner extraordinaire and first official employee. Today, we celebrate her and her year with Emerging Prairie (and what…

Having your stem cells extracted and banked might sound foreign and scary, but for the leaders behind Next Healthcare Inc., stem cell banking is a no-brainer. “Now is the time,”…

Bismarck, ND – Yesterday, February 12, approximately 85 leaders in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) industry around the country came together for UAS Industry Day, to discuss how North Dakota…

When in the realm of virtual reality, you kinda look like an idiot. There you are, sitting in an armchair, hands slightly raised grasping at nothing, with a giant clunky…

Your morning cup o’ joe may never be the same, thanks to local biocomposite material designer c2renew. This morning at 1 Million Cups, c2renew co-founder Corey Kratcha released their first…

A little over a year ago, Jake Clark and John Schneider decided to go into 3D printing for two reasons; they’re both “a little geeky,” they said, and they saw…

His work is hard to describe. Neil Blanchard, a former engineer of 20 years turned entrepreneur, sat down with me to talk about his new business of “finding hidden profits”…

Dirk Monson and Jordan Nelson never imagined their reconstructed vending machine, a Wi-fi connected Snackshop 4000 that takes candy orders through a mobile app, would ever be more than a…

Recognize these girls? They’re the ones from Fargo South High School, and are probably some of the biggest (and youngest) cheerleaders for Fargo’s entrepreneurial scene. We wrote a few months…