1 Million Cups Fargo

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!Join us this we were joined by three young entrepreneurs in Fargo. These entrepreneurs give us some great insight into what we can do as a community to support young entrepreneurs. We were joined by Ella Hayes, with her invention  the "Ice Eraser,"  Johanna Zinke, who forges her own plants and herbs, and Oscar Stebleton who loves dogs and does anything dog-related.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!Join us this week to hear from Dieumerci Christel, founder of Enlightapp Inc. and Tyrre Burks, founder of Players Health.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!Join us this week to hear from Sharon Traylor, co-founder of ROOTS Hair & Soul and Frederick Edwards Jr., founder of Fred's Dissonance. "We are where we need to be, right now" -Sharon TraylorVisit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!Join us this week to hear from Joe Wright, founder of Wright Foot and Jay Evans, founder of Off Color Media.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!Join us this week to hear from Clayton Cottman, founder of Uncle Charlie's Gourmet Snacks and Sara Lien, founder of Paisley and Dash.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast! Join us this week to hear from Jim Manney, managing director of Click Content Studios and Reyna Bergstrom, Miss North Dakota.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!Join us this week to hear from Amanda Pieters with the  Avocado Doula, and Kelsey Rascco with Dash & White.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!Join us this week to hear from Holly Kraft with DRUTHERS and Jackie Maahs with The Plant Supply! Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!Join us this week to hear from Troy Bagne, founder of Wanido, and Crystal Nelson, founder of Fargo Ergonomics. Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!Join us this week to hear from Sarah Carlisle, founder of Travel Escape Room and Michelle Mortinsen, founder of The Magic Meeple.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!Join us this week to hear from John Mascoe, founder of Leaftech Ag and Michael Lynch, co-founder of Chonex.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This is our first week in our new home at Fargo Brewing Company! To celebrate, we were joined by their co-founder, Aaron Hill, along with the founder of Prairie Rose Meadery!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we celebrated Artists Week by featuring two local artists, Kate Baldock and Elizabeth Moore! Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we celebrated She Starts Week, a week for empowering women in business all across Fargo. We welcomed Vivian Fellman with Kota Botanics; and Brittany Anton with Shirts from Fargo!Vivian is the founder and Chief Vision Officer of Kota Botanics, a premium hemp wellness business, headquartered in Fargo, ND. She is the first generation immigrant within her family, and passionate about wellness, holistic health, and helping other women entrepreneurs achieve their goals.Brittany began her adventure with Shirts from Fargo in 2019 after many years running a bridal store. She fell in love with being able to reach and help people in new and unique ways. Their goal is to give organizations and nonprofits a voice and means of fundraising without inventory or fulfillment burdens.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by RubyAnn Stiegelmeier with Northern Soul Chocolates and Rebecca Binstock with Simple Sugar!RubyAnn created Northern Soul Chocolate by fusing traditional chocolate techniques with the wild beauty and natural richness of the Great Plains. Her intention to be a presence of healing and pleasure in the food industry.Rebecca owns Simple Sugar LLC, a cotton candy company. Simple Sugar specializes in uniquely flavored cotton candy, made with a simple recipe of beet sugar and syrups from local produce. Rebecca and her husband, Mark, started Simple Sugar in October 2018 so their daughter, who has food multiple food allergies, could enjoy a moment of sweetness.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by Craig Rupp, CEO of Sabanto.Sabanto is bringing autonomy into agriculture to help farmers deal with their labor problems by automating redundant operations. They have deployed multiple autonomous systems performing field operations in fields across the states.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by Matthew Chaussee with Be More Colorful and Patrick Mineer with Golden Path Solutions!Matt Chaussee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Be More Colorful, an interactive media agency focused on creating immersive experiences that help people make better decisions about where they live, learn, work, and play. Patrick is the founder and CEO of Golden Path Solutions, a North Dakota startup that has built a platform called Compass to help students prepare for the future and to connect them with employers who need them for their future workforce. .Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by Kevin Biffert, President and CEO of 701x, a company that aims to improve the lives of ranchers through innovation to track livestock assets. Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we'll be joined by Lanny Faleide with Satshot; and Bart Womack with Eden Grow Systems!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we heard from Patty Post with Checkable Medical!Checkable Medical's mission is to empower individuals to make clinical, evidence-based decisions from the comfort of their homes. Checkable Medical is focused on delivering innovative at-home diagnostic testing to employers and individuals.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we welcomed David Haukaas and Josh Owens with Stax Financial Technologies; and Levi Otis and Kyle Reierson with QR Posts!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by the team behind Pops & Bejou Games! They're a group of friends who bonded over their shared love of board games... so they decided to come together to create a game board company! To support Pops & Bejou Games you can pre-order their game Cultivate here today!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we heard from Debbi Osowski with Do Good Adventures!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the #StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week at StartupBREW Fargo is Growers Day! Join us in learning more about the agriculture community in Fargo-Moorhead.Visit our Website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we will be joined by Rebecca Undem, founder of Growing Small Towns.Rebecca Undem has always been passionate about two things: people and talking to people. As an inspirational speaker, community advocate, and host of the podcast The Growing Small Towns Show, she's put her gift of gab to good use with the creation of Growing Small Towns. Growing Small Towns is a regional non-profit that helps small towns in southeast North Dakota be a place people love to call home.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we were joined by Renae Mitchell with juiceboxfargo & Alyssa Jones with EXIT 44 - Flowers & More. juiceboxfargo is working to help others achieve optimum health and wellness by experiencing the power of raw fruits and vegetables. They offer locally sourced and organic cold-pressed juice, wellness shots and cleanse packages!EXIT 44 - Flowers & More is  diving into the local flower farm movement to bring sustainable growing practices to the flower industry of the Fargo/Moorhead area. They have two acres of growing space with over 100 different varieties of beautiful blooms. Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo.

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we were joined by Connor McGovern with Able Games; and Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux with their new book, Dare to Make History.Fargo ABLE Games is the brainchild of Connor McGovern, Fargo native and NFL center for the New York Jets, and Kim Pladson, Executive Director of TNT Kids 'Fitness & Gymnastics. The Fargo Able Games is the region's first all-inclusive test of functional fitness. This event celebrates the abilities of all its competitors from the highly skilled athlete to the athlete with special needs. Competitors of all divisions compete on the floor at the same time in a way to celebrate inclusiveness.Monique and Jocelyne are from Grand Forks, ND. They are 3X Olympians, Olympic Gold medalists, and 6X world Champions. They recently just retired from the USA women's national hockey team after 15 years and released an Amazon Best Seller book, Dare to Make History: Chasing a dream and Fighting for Equity. They are using their platform to make a difference through their foundation to make and help underprivileged kids in ND.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo. 

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we heard from Shelby Terstriep with 701 Eateries; and Mary Orlando with Rosewild!Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we heard from  Nate Thoreson and Mukai Selekwa, co-founders of Webblen; and Jimmy Slagle and Lucas Sjule, co-founders of Trend Z.Webblen is a community-building platform that allows small business owners to directly reach their target audience while rewarding its users for engaging with their community. Webblen is powered by blockchain and driven by communities."Jimmy founded Trend Z where they specialize in building your TikTok presence. Through content creation and influencer marketing on the platform, Trend Z's job is to literally study TikTok and learn ways to make your business grow. They also like to make people laugh, but that's just a bonus.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo. 

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we heard from Benya Kraus, Co-Founder of Lead for America!Lead for America is a national organization that supports outstanding talent to return and reinvest in their hometowns. Benya hails from Bangkok, Thailand, and Waseca, Minnesota - where she currently resides. She is the Director of Lead For Minnesota, and Lead for America's newest track: the American Connection Corps, designed to accelerate broadband access and digital inclusion across rural America.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo. 

Welcome to StartupBREW Fargo!This week we will be joined by Itai Damti, founder of Unit, which helps companies build financial features into their products: accounts, cards, payments, lending & more.Unit owns the heavy lifting of compliance and bank relationships so their clients can build, launch, and grow faster. They are a plug-and-play platform that helps tech companies launch financial features with 90% less time and effort. They follow through with exactly what their clients are asking for: a set of powerful APIs and a dashboard. This has helped clients build end-to-end banking experiences in as little as 4 weeks.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we will be joined by Joe Tjosvold, founder of Chezy; and Maddie Schultz, founder of Blue Cypher Bookkeeping.Joe founded Advertise Edge, an award-winning video agency, in 2017. In 2020, Joe added another video marketing company called Chezy. With Chezy, the mission is simple, to provide a video marketing solution that small organizations can afford but with the quality that large organizations require!Maddie founded Blue Cypher Bookkeeping at the end of 2019 as a completely virtual firm. Her focus is bringing accounting into the 21st century and taking traditional bookkeeping beyond just data entry. By leveraging technology, creating systems and updating processes, Blue Cypher makes tracking finances easy, efficient and understandable. She specializes in accounting for service-based business owners and nonprofit organizations.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we will be joined by Jared Hineman and Amos Kolbo, co-founders of WeClean Local.WeClean was founded in 2018 by a group of entrepreneurial friends who shared a passion for supporting local communities. Together, they dreamed about building a company that provided a necessary service, created great jobs, and made a positive social impact.3WeClean is a modern home cleaning service with a heart. They offer the highest quality professional home cleaning service and the latest tech-based conveniences including instant online quotes and online booking, paired with environmentally sustainable cleaning products and ethical, kind treatment of their cleaning professionals.To learn more about StartupBREW Fargo visit our website!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo podcast!This week we were joined by Dani Haekenkamp, founder of Quirky Event Planning; and Mary Cait McManamon, founder of MCMktg, LLC.Dani Haekenkamp, Founder of Quirky Event Planning, is an event planner, community cheerleader and connector in Fargo, ND. She specializes in utilizing local vendors and out-of-the-box ideas to create unique and memorable events. She's a lover of puns and all things creative and is energized by meeting new people. Mary Cait McManamon is a Social Media Marketing Strategist and Owner of MCMktg, LLC. After graduating in 2020 from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with degrees in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, she moved back to Minnesota to start her business. She is passionate about supporting female business owners by taking social media off their plates so they can focus on other things, like growing their businesses.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast!This week we were joined by Kirsten Henagin and Theresa Garrett, co-founders of Arise! Communities; and Nancy Mwirotsi, founder of Pursuit of Innovation.Arise Communities believes in inclusive technology education with a goal to create a more equitable and diverse technology industry in the Midwest. Through judgement-free, inclusive learning communities, Arise Communities helps women and marginalized groups explore technology in new and meaningful ways. Pursuit of Innovation seeks to expose a diverse group of students to STEM education and skills to help balance what they see as inequity in their representation in STEM fields.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

Welcome back to Season Two of the 1 Million Cups Fargo Podcast!This week we are joined by Martha Mink & Ashley Ham Co-Founders of Dear NICU Mama,; and Deeip Sengar, Founder of FoodLynk.Dear NICU Mama is a non-profit designed to connect, encourage, and create community with past and present NICU moms. Through online education, NICU family events, and hospital outreach programs, Dear NICU Mama is helping families persevere through this isolating experience by providing them resources, support, and hope.FoodLynk's mission is to create purposeful linkages to reduce food waste and use it to feed the needy. Using an online platform, they connect individuals with excess food at the end of the day to volunteers who will then deliver the food to a person in need.Visit our website to learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo!

Welcome back to 1 Million Cups Fargo!This week we are joined by Ashton Hauff, founder of Evertide, and Troy Derheim, founder of Aquatics Empowered.Evertide is a daily planner curated to help organize the lives and work of those seeking to find balance. While Aquatics Empowered is a non-profit with a mission to help connect rural communities with access to aquatic therapy.Visit our website to learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo!

This week we're joined by Faith Shields-Dixon, founder of Faith4Hope along with Missy Heilman, founder of BIO Girls.Faith4Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income families achieve lasting independence.BIO Girls is a self-worth building program serving adolescent girls with a mission to improve their self-esteem through the empowerment of self and service to others. Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo on our website.

This week we are joined by Rhoda Elmi and Sky Purdin, co-founders of Jasmin Child Care and Preschool! Jasmin Child Care is a Fargo-based nonprofit working to support families in the community by going above and beyond childcare. Visit our website to learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo!

Today we are joined by a panel of five collegiate business deans discussing their school's contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in our community. We are grateful to be joined by Christopher Mason of Concordia, Scott Beaulier of NDSU, Amy Henley of UND, Karel Sovak of the University of Mary, and Joshua Behl of MSUM. Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo on our website.

This week we were joined by Owyn Ferguson, Co-Founder of the new party game, doghouse! Doghouse was created by a group of seniors at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University during an entrepreneurship program in the Fall of 2019. Owyn shares their story of graduating during a pandemic, pursuing entrepreneurship, and the plans they have for doghouse.

Today we are joined by Nadia Mitchell & Sean Feeny, founders of Be Bold; and Lynn Kotrba, founder of Harvest Hope Farm. Be Bold is a virtual mentorship program founded by the two recent graduates, Nadia and Sean, with a mission to provide mentorship to homeless students across the country.Harvest Hope Farm was founded by Lynn and her husband in 2017, and is a non-profit organization hosting camps to help harvest hope in others through a hands-on-farm experience. This place is not only home to Lynn and her family, but also "special sheep" that are being used for medical science research to help find a cure for Huntington's Disease.Thanks for listening to the 1 Million Cups Fargo Podcast!

Today we are joined by an internet personality famous for his love of all things Busch Light and the Midwest, Myles Montplaisir! Myles shares with us his experience of going viral, creating the brand "You Betcha", and the joys and challenges that come along with it all. Learn more about 1 Million Cups at our website www.1millioncups.com/fargo.

This week we heard from Maneesh Apte, Fargo native and Stanford University graduate, about his latest venture, Sprout Software. Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo at our website!

This week at 1 Million Cups Fargo we heard from two New American Entrepreneurs, Hukun Dabar from ESHARA and Abdi Mohamed from Soma Employment Solutions.

This week at 1 Million Cups Fargo we heard from two leaders in the Midwest hemp industry. Our first speaker was Veronica Michael from Prairie Products, the first licensed hemp processor in the state of North Dakota. Our second speaker was Wes Sanda, founder of Northstar Biotechnologies, which is a team of chemical and genetic engineers dedicated to producing the highest quality hemp strains and products in the region. Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo and our speakers at our website.

This week at 1 Million Cups Fargo, we heard from Rob Lindberg from TracFrac. It is an online portal for E&P’s to send and receive notifications for offset fracs, as well as coordinate well preparation efforts. TracFrac notifies operators of nearby wells using system-wide or well-specific proximities and email addresses set by each nearby operator.Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo and our speakers at our website.

This week at 1 Million Cups Fargo, we heard from two moguls in the fashion industry here in Fargo. Our first speaker is Gunel Huseynova, owner of Mainstream Boutique, and New American living in Fargo. Our second speaker is Laura Morris, owner and founder of Others Shop, a boutique in Downtown Fargo dedicated to fair trade items and ethically sourced materials. Learn more about 1 Million Cups Fargo and upcoming speakers at our website.