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Brad Feld's advice on building rural communities

Fargo has a lot of reasons to thank Brad Feld. Brad Feld is an entrepreneur, an author, and a venture capitalist with The Foundry Group. His book Startup Communities highlights…

Hive social app lets you curate your friendships

Hive, a social app that connects people based on shared interests, launched last week on NDSU’s campus. Brett Knutson and Gavriil Telkov, co-founders, are building the app out of NDSU’s Research and…

Autonomous Tractor makes first sale

Fargo-based Autonomous Tractor Corporation today announced a deal for the first sale of its diesel-electric tractor system to FamilyFarms Group, a large farming group representing over 1.5 million acres. This…

Volaris acquires Fargo-based Red River Valley Software

Volaris Group, a company based in Toronto, Canada that acquires and grows vertical technology market companies, announced today that it has acquired Red River Software (RRS) headquartered in Fargo, North…

Girl Develop It Fargo celebrates one year with CODE documentary

It was a year ago this month that Shannon Weidman and Megan Beck announced they were organizing a Fargo chapter of Girl Develop It, a non-profit that offers coding classes…

Fargo Internships Fair: October 14, 2015

Today at 1 Million Cups Fargo we held an internship fair! Based off the wild success of the last internship fair, which saw almost a hundred interns get hired, we…

Botlink launches real-time cellular drone device

Botlink, a Fargo-based startup in the drone industry, has launched their first product on the market: a piece of hardware called the XRD (Extended Range and Data). According to Botlink,…

Sky Blue Technology to pitch at Web Summit 2015

Out of 10,000 applicants, Fargo-based startup Sky Blue Technology was chosen as one of 400 startups to present at the annual Web Summit conference hosted in Dublin, Ireland. Yes, the…

Vidku launches in Fargo with 17 second talent show

Join us for the world’s first ever 17-second talent show! Vidku is coming from Minneapolis to have their official launch right here in Fargo, at the Prairie Den. Their app…

New Fargo startup merges mobile with the Internet of Things

Ray Berry toyed with the idea of starting a business for over a year. But he didn’t take the leap until he heard these words from the stage at 1…