Marisa Jackels

CoSchedule reaches 2000 customers

After only one year of business, Bismarck-based company CoSchedule has reached 2000 customers as of last week! CoSchedule, which was founded in September 2013 by Garrett Moon and Justin Walsh,…

NDSU offers big bucks for student innovators

ide·ate : to form an idea NDSU is calling its students to ideate. But taking action on those ideas can be tough. All too often, a brilliant idea is stifled…

1 Million Cups: Simply Made Apps

Last week at 1 Million Cups we heard from Bill Burgess, co-founder of the startup Simply Made Apps. The startup was created when one of the co-founders had a problem…

GDI Fargo launch party video re-cap!

Shannon Luney and Megan Beck have launched a chapter of Girl Develop It coding courses in Fargo, and on October 9, over 100 people gathered at the Loretta building to…

New "early service" to 1 Million Cups: Group Think

Although “groupthink” by definition means a group of people thinking the same things, Brittany Sickler and Karis Thompson have organized an event called Group Think that is exactly the opposite.…

Girl Develop It comes to Fargo

Shannon Luney and Megan Beck never imagined they would get into coding. And that’s exactly why they decided to open a Fargo chapter of Girl Develop It, an international non-profit…

1 Million Cups Recap: October 1, 2014

If you missed 1 Million Cups last week, never fear! Check out this video to get a taste of the fun. Thanks once again to Rachel Black and Sam Jacobs…

Burrito to business: the GoodSurv story

Sometimes inspiration strikes in remarkable places. For Sam Jacobs, it was while alone in Qdoba, eating a burrito. When looking over his receipt, he noticed that at the bottom it…

Talk and tasty treats at Startup Drinks

Almost a hundred entrepreneurs, designers, developers, community builders, and other interested Fargo locals filled CoCo Fargo last Wednesday evening, September 24, for Emerging Prairie’s Startup Drinks event. The event, organized…

BUILDing a better future for healthcare

Healthcare, while a controversial subject, is a vital component to any society. Why is it then, that it is also an industry sorely lacking in innovative technology? Yesterday morning, hundreds…