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Startup marketing tips from Alec Winmill

Today’s guest post on startup marketing tips is by Alec Winmill, VP of Marketing and Communications at the Fargo-based drone startup, Botlink. This is the first in a three-part series…

Live Job Board: July 5, 2015

Looking for a job? Below are announcements from our most recent Live Job Board, held every first Wednesday of the month at our weekly 1 Million Cups event! Discovery Benefits…

Autonomous tractor being built in Fargo: Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part article on the autonomous tractor technology being built in Fargo. Read part 1 here. Make any tractor autonomous According to Kraig Shulz,…

The Dakotas represent at first-ever White House Demo Day

Today, August 4, 2015, the White House held its first Demo Day, a special showcase created by President Obama to highlight American entrepreneurs and their individual success stories. Drew Spooner…

Autonomous tractor being built in Fargo

Out on Zimmerman field in Minnesota, a 25,000-pound tractor named The Spirit chugs forward, reaches a corner, pivots, and heads back the opposite direction. It does this over and over,…

Our first employee moves on

It is with both sadness and excitement that we share with you that Emerging Prairie’s first employee and event planner extraordinaire, Annika Nynas, will be moving on from Emerging Prairie…

The Mobile App Art Pallet: DJ Spooky on the world of mobile apps

He came, he spun, he ran out the room quickly to catch a flight. DJ Spooky swept through Fargo last week, perhaps similarly to the way he sweeps across the…

Emerging Prairie's July in Review

This month, much of the activity revolved around one of Fargo’s biggest events of the year: TEDxFargo, held on July 23. In fact, we might even start calling August the…

WE Fest is retaining more employees with Clifton Labs wristbands

If you were planning to get into WE Fest as an employee this year and then ditch to watch the show, think again – Fargo-based software company Clifton Labs has…

TBEG grant rebrands as Innovate ND

Innovate ND is now the only way for entrepreneurs to get state funding from North Dakota. In an effort to streamline the process of getting state funding to entrepreneurs, what…