One Million Cups

In 2015, Al Yablonski and Seth Novak co-founded Anchor Ingredients in Fargo, North Dakota. With several years of experience in the commodity industry, Yablonski and Novak are now focused on…

Ted Zipoy and Timothy Straus are two college students that have launched Homilink, a company on a mission to connect people more and more with the internet-of-things. Inspired by the…

In 2016, Ryan Swanson started COR Robotics to promote STEM careers by sparking an interest in students through summer camps. The first summer COR Robotics held 7 summer camps, and…

Ben Milne and the Dwolla team are charting a course to disrupt the e-commerce industry by building the ideal money-moving platform. What began as frustration over transaction fees has now…

Clever Mukori, a Concordia College graduate and native of Zimbabwe, is creating a web-based platform that will revolutionize the education industry called Learn or Teach. The culmination of Mukori’s life…

In 2017, the Go/Do App was launched providing a one-stop location for events and everyday activities taking place in the Fargo, North Dakota region. Founder, Cindy Gillund, created the app…

Tom Kading, Wes Henry, and Aaron McWilliams joined together in 2017 to co-found Construction Automation. The team is preparing for the first product launch called AutoSaw. “Tom Kading had the…

In August 2017, Alex and Nathan Guggenberger launched Jobiki, an innovative online platform for job seekers and companies. The Jobiki team is trying to reduce the stress of job seekers…

Eric Newell, Becky Newell, and Cody Marshall started Stoneridge Software, a Microsoft Partner firm, in 2012 in their hometown of Barnesville, Minnesota earning a revenue of $100,000 that year. In…

Guest post from Chris Shellenbarger (Founder of CloudRepo) “Why do you want to run your own startup?”, is what many venture capitalists, potential co-founders, or business advisers would ask me. “I…