Fargo is a city on the grow. That’s no surprise to many of us. This past year was especially fruitful for the entrepreneurial community – a growth that everyone else is beginning to notice. On January 2, the Fargo Forum published an extensive piece looking into the key elements that built up the infrastructure for Fargo’s entrepreneurs in 2014.

The evidence for this vibrant entrepreneurial energy coursing through the veins of our community can be found in events like Startup Weekend, 1 Million Cups, E-Commerce Breakfasts, or Hackathon, the article states. It can also be found in community-orientated educational groups brought to Fargo this year like Girl Develop It, and in collaborative co-working spaces like CoCo Fargo.

Or the Startup House, opened up by Miguel Danielson of Danielson Legal and Emerging Prairie, which offers a home to entrepreneurs free of charge in the hopes they can reach their business goals faster. It currently houses entrepreneurs Sarah English and Trent Cahoon.

It can be found in the national media attention Fargo is getting, like an article in Bloomberg and references in Entrepreneur. It can be found in the investments being made, and the plans for future capital to be invested in startups through the creation of an angel fund.

The Forum spoke with John Machacek, senior vice president, finance and entrepreneurial development at the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corp., who is looking into creating a business accelerator for Fargo, as well as continuing working on plans for a coding school. Machacek states that he finds 2014 encouraging for what 2015 will bring.

The article focuses in on past 1 Million Cups speaker Courtny Evanson, who won the North Dakota Women’s Startup Weekend with her idea for a massage-style table that allows women to relax and sleep while pumping breast milk. Through pursuing this business idea, which she calls Nevaeh, Evanson “began 2014 as a single mom with an idea,” and “ended it with a provisional patent, refined product sketches and grant funding,” the Forum writes.

Evanson is just one example of the success and support entrepreneurs in the Fargo-Moorhead area are seeing. In fact, at the rate of entrepreneurial energy electrifying this city, Emerging Prairie co-founder Greg Tehven predicts 2015 will be the Year of the Entrepreneur.

In order to fulfill this prediction, it’s important to assess the foundations laid in 2014, and understand how to continue propelling the city forward off this momentum. It was a phenomenal year of learning and growth, and building off that growth will ensure 2015 is even greater.

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Photos taken by Marisa Jackels.