One Million Cups

Fargo Game Jam winners to speak at 1 Million Cups

At Fargo Game Jam 2016, five teams had thirty hours, spread over the course of three days, to create a video game that related to at least one of two themes:…

Fargo startup launches rTown: a mobile app for small towns

When the city of Wahpeton approached Ray Berry and his team at OmniByte Technology about building a custom mobile app for their community, they fell into a familiar predicament. The…

MCP Networks launches beta of home network solution Aerez

When Marc Perea woke one night to grab a drink of water, he was greeted by a familiar melody, a faint blue glow, and the sound of fingers click-clacking on a…

Local students introduce Webblen, a new social media manager

Mukai Selekwa has become somewhat of a poster child for the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!). The program, which was developed at the University of Rochester in 2004, teaches high school students how to start and run…

New game in Fargo brings technology to horse-racing

When investor Paul Singh came through Fargo in mid-June, he, a man who’s heard thousands of pitches for startup ideas from around the world, noted that founders should “find the…

Davies grad hopes to turn summer project into code school

One month ago, Davies grad Adam Vareberg’s only knowledge of computer science education came from his freshman Computer Science 50 course at Harvard University. Code schools were never on the biomedical…

eOneSolutions team launches new startup: PopDock

Martin Olsen, an Australia native who came to Fargo to build his company eOneSolutions, has another project up his sleeve — a software as a service (SAAS) startup called PopDock.…

Fargo engineer and military vet invent new workout: the SpinUp

During Mike Sather’s third deployment in Afghanistan, he was “run into the ground” by a Special Forces candidate with an exercise routine he had never heard of before. The move…

Self-defense and startups: how a three-person company is saving lives

College campuses, parking ramps, gas stations, homes– in recent years, headlines have taught us that assault, be it physical or sexual, can happen anywhere and at anytime. For upcoming 1 Million Cups speaker…

A taste of home and honey at Prairie Rose Meadery

Just off 32nd Avenue South in Fargo, west of I-29, lies a cluster of office buildings. There is a property management company, an insurance agency, and an alcohol screening and…