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Women's Startup Weekend 2015 is this weekend!

Wait, didn’t Startup Weekend just finish up? Yes, but this is Women’s Startup Weekend! After a smash success last year, the second annual Women’s Startup Weekend is taking place in…

Three things I learned at the Game Developers Conference 2015

Editor’s Note: Part 1 of a two part post from CJ Schnase on his experiences at the 2015 Game Developers Conference 2015. CJ Schnase is a local entrepreneur and co-founder…

US Senator Heidi Heitkamp's 3 tips for growing North Dakota's startup culture

This morning, nearly 100 entrepreneurs from across North Dakota gathered at the North Dakota State College of Science for the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Road Tour, to learn how…

Shark Tank is on the hunt for North Dakotans

Shark Tank, a popular American reality television competition series for aspiring entrepreneurs, is on the hunt for Season 7 contestants. And they want North Dakotans. On April 1, Laurie Morse-Del,…

Fargo-based gaming startup launches The Abettor's Letters

After years of hard work – writing stories and dialogue, hand crafting artwork, voice acting, programming, and fine-tuning – local Fargo gaming startup Beach Interactive launched the first chapter of…

Emerging Prairie's March in Review

If we could place a character title on this month of March, it would be the Herald of Events. For the first part of the year, things were relatively quiet…

From Fargo to Sri Lanka: Thiken brings startup culture to their home country

It is 8,646 miles from Fargo, North Dakota, to the island of Sri Lanka. The expanse of the Atlantic Ocean spans between us, as well as the entire continent of…

Coschedule pitches at Google Demo Day 2015

Today, Bismarck-based startup Coschedule presented at Google Demo Day 2015 in Mountain View, CA as one of 12 startups competing for hefty investments from Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Fellow Coschedule…

Live Job Board: April 1, 2015

Every first Wednesday of the month, after our weekly 1 Million Cups event, the stage is opened up to employers for the live job board. For anyone looking for a…

John Machacek announces campaign for Mayor 2030

John Machacek, Senior Vice President of Finance & Entrepreneurial Development at the Greater Fargo-Moorhead EDC, has announced he is running for Mayor of Fargo in 2030. “Some people have asked…