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Emerging Prairie Announces 2023 1 Million Thanks Award Winners

Emerging Prairie announced its annual 1 Million Thanks Awards recognizing individuals and organizations that have made a significant impact in the startup, innovation, and technology communities. This year’s award recipients…
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StartupBREW: Speaker Reunion Day 2022 Recap

“Entrepreneurs choose to take risks… to solve problems.”   Greg Tehven, founder of Emerging Prairie, welcomed the StartupBREW Fargo Speaker Reunion Day meetup with excitement, curiousity, and gratitude. After 39…

Inspiring Connection while Crowned

Reyna Bergstrom currently serves as Miss North Dakota 2021. With her car as her office, she travels the state often for various engagements. She recently began on the Marketing Team…

Bringing Fargo to Hollywood

Jim Manney is the managing director of Click Content Studios, a video production and marketing agency in Downtown Fargo. A lifelong learner, Jim knew he wanted to work in entertainment…

Bringing Local Food to the Table

Bjorn Solberg is the Director of Wholesale Operations at Red River Harvest Cooperative. He graduated from Concordia College studying Social Studies Secondary Education.  “My first job was at Scheels on…

Going the Xtra Mile

Kyle Voltin is the Owner/CEO of Xtra Apparel. He attended Minnesota State University, Mankato and chose to pursue the entrepreneurial route in the Spring of 2018.  After attending a gala…

Training Elite Athletes

Nick Hawkins is a Co-Founder and Director of Dynasty Elite Athletics. He attended Northland CTC / Grambling State University and chose to pursue the entrepreneurial route in April of 2021. …

Crafting the first North Dakota Brews

Jared Hardy is a cofounder of Fargo Brewing Company, which is located on 610 University Dr N, Fargo. Jared completed his undergraduate degree at North Dakota State University, and received…

A Hobby Turned Business

Aaron Juhnke is the president of Junkyard Brewing, which is located in Moorhead at 1416 1st Ave N. Aaron transferred to NDSU after some time at Hillsdale College in Michigan,…

Serving Mapleton While Serving Brews

Rick Brandvold is a founding owner/partner of Icewind Brewing, managing most day to day taproom operations, sales and distribution as well as the accounting. He attended MSCTC for Culinary Arts,…