Tech

Fargo Entrepreneur Creates Free Online Educational Platform

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…