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1 Million Cups: Simply Made Apps
By Marisa Jackels
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!
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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
By Marisa Jackels
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…
BUILD is live!
By Marisa Jackels
Step outside downtown Fargo today or tomorrow, and you are sure to run into large crowds of smartly dressed men and women wearing yellow banded nametags. Why? Because Intelligent Insites’…
CoCo brings co-working to Fargo
By Marisa Jackels
There is a fortune cookie fortune slipped in the corner of the “Welcome to CoCo” sign of Fargo’s brand new co-working space on 122 N. Broadway. It reads, “Really great…