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NDSU students win OZY Genius award for affordable prosthetic arm design

An engineering team out of North Dakota State University landed one of ten inaugral OZY Genius awards with their design for a more affordable 3D printed prosthetic arm. Their design,…

1 Million Cups this week: Arday Ardayfio

From being crowned homecoming king at Conocordia College to breaking Guinness World Records for most pancakes served in a given time (35,000 in 8 hours), Arday Ardayfio has no shortage…

1 Million Cups this week: Martin Olsen, eOne Solutions

This week at 1 Million Cups we’re hearing from a man who gave up the beaches of Australia to run a software development company in Fargo. Martin Olsen, a native…

NDSU business class solves problems for Fargo startups

Rather than studying theoretical business models as usual, Dr. Chanchai Tangpong’s business class at North Dakota State University partnered with Emerging Prairie to use real Fargo startups for their capstone…

LeadPages announces $27 million in funding

A few weeks ago, LeadPages CEO and co-founder Clay Collins came to Fargo and spoke about company culture at Arthur Ventures’ Cultivate.you event. Yesterday, he announced that the Minneapolis-based startup…

Introducing The Prairie Den: Fargo's new coworking space

It’s official. Emerging Prairie is launching a new coworking space in Fargo, as we announced this morning, June 17, at 1 Million Cups. By community vote, the space has been…

SkySkopes lands first FAA exemption for North Dakota startup

Grand Forks-based startup SkySkopes, which offers drone inspection of cellular towers, received the first FAA Section 333 exemption for a North Dakota startup on June 5. After three months of…

Meet the Captains: Katie Hutton

Startup Drinks is tomorrow! If you haven’t already, sign up here! So far on our Meet the Captains series we’ve met Al and Lisa. Now we’re introducing Katie Hutton, marketing…

Tech.Co's Startup of the Year competition is next month!

Listen up Fargo tech startups! Here’s your chance to be awarded Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year. Every year, Tech Cocktail (a Tech.Co production) hosts an online competition for Startup of…

Meet the Captains: Lisa Gulland-Nelson

Next up in our Meet the Captains for our June 16 Startup Drinks is the woman behind the 1 Million Cups Fargo tweets, Lisa Gulland-Nelson. She’s also the Vice President…