Tech
Fargo Entrepreneur Creates Free Online Educational Platform
By Brent McNeal
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…
Innovative Job Seeking Platform launched in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
By Brent McNeal
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…
Stoneridge Software: Successful Small Town Start-up
By Brent McNeal
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…
Creating a Culture Worth Multiplying: A Look into CoSchedule
By Brent McNeal
Success and growth have defined CoSchedule over the last four years as they have expanded their team to over 60 people and multiplied profits. As the fastest growing start-up in…
An Engineer’s Mistake: Learning that Sales and Marketing Are Critical to a Startup
By Emerging Prairie
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…
Cultivate: A Purposeful Collision of Agriculture and Technology
By Brent McNeal
Technology is rapidly changing the landscape of the agriculture industry. Because of this reality, Emerging Prairie hosted the first Cultivate Conference on emerging technologies affecting agriculture. “We named this conference…
ChenPo: A Company for Creative Software Solutions
By Brent McNeal
Chris Shellenbarger moved from San Francisco, California to Fargo, North Dakota to launch ChenPo, a technology company start-up named after his dog. As a software engineer, Shellenbarger is excited about…
Touring Africa and Beyond With Help of Fargo Start-up
By Brent McNeal
In 2016, Solomon Ayalew founded Touranb (Tour Africa and Beyond) to connect tourists with African travel companies. The web-based platform fills the gaps between a travel agencies, tourists, and local…
Bismarck Start-Up Innovates Travel Industry
By Brent McNeal
Shawn Brannan is a world traveler that enjoys learning about the historical places he visits. While listening to a tour over headphones at a museum in Europe, Shawn confirmed the…
Minneapolis Company Innovates the Marketing and Sales Industry
By Brent McNeal
Mark Galloway co-founded OppSource in 2008 with Dan Metzger and Damon Lawson. OppSource is a company built on a cloud-based, market-leading sales development platform. However, the early stages of the…