Oct 22BusinessesFounders
The Office Made to Fit
A client can learn a great deal about a business on first impressions alone.
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Oct 22BusinessesReal Estate
Commercial Spaces Built For Business. Designed For People.
Floor to Ceiling brings products, design and project expertise together under one roof.
Oct 22BusinessesVenture
Is Your Basement Your Home’s Most Underused Asset?
The smartest homeowners don’t always add on or move up. They put the square footage they already own to work.
Oct 22BusinessesFinance
Financial Success Requires More Than Just Smart Investing
Navigating your finances through each phase of life requires more than just a plan. It requires a partner.
Oct 22
Oct 22BusinessesReal Estate
Big Deals Don’t Have to Move Slowly
When it comes to commercial real estate, a clear answer and the right financing structure can keep your plans moving.
Oct 22BusinessesFounders
Three Ways to Build a More Comfortable, Energy-Efficient Home
Radiant Homes’ David Reid points to three areas that can make a home both more efficient and more comfortable.
Oct 22Businesses
Functional vs. Theatrical Lighting: Striking the Perfect Balance
A great-looking room only works if the audience can clearly see the person speaking. Here is how lighting can do both.
Oct 22BusinessesSoftware
Don’t Invest Before You Validate Demand
One of the most expensive mistakes entrepreneurs make is building software before proving customers will pay for it. A Veterans Business Outreach Specialist explains how to avoid it.
Oct 22BusinessesSoftware
Your 2027 Plan Starts With Three Numbers
Facing the hard data before the wish list is how a plan actually delivers. Wendy Klug of the SBA and Gary Manske of Prairie Growth Solutions break it down.
Oct 22BusinessesFounders
A Scoreboard For The Second Half
Century Club founder Neil Keltgen did not build a longevity program. He built a place for men who miss being on a team.
Oct 22BusinessesSoftware
The Hidden Costs Of AI
AI is making work faster and sharper, but it may be quietly removing the experiences that turn today’s employees into tomorrow’s leaders.
Oct 22BusinessesReal Estate
The Next Map Of Fargo-Moorhead
Seven development zones, two clocks and one big question: how much growth should move outward, and how much should be absorbed by places the community has already paid to serve?
Oct 22BusinessesFounders
The Business Owner’s Perspective
Remodeling without closing the doors: for Brooke Erstad, renovating Apex Physical Therapy & Wellness’s approximately 10,000-square-foot West Fargo clinic meant improving the space without stopping patient care.
Oct 22BusinessesConstruction
The Contractor’s Perspective
Grafstrom Construction’s Hans Grafstrom answers the questions business owners should ask before they build or remodel an office, from budgets and bids to timelines and communication.
Oct 22BusinessesSoftware
Office Tour! With Connect Interiors
Connect Interiors recently relocated to a new Fargo showroom and workplace after recognizing an opportunity to better align their space with the way they work today.
Oct 22BusinessesReal Estate
A Different Kind Of Care
Alyssa Lakosky spent four years in emergency rooms before moving into commercial real estate at JBC. The skills she built at the bedside now shape how she guides business owners through big decisions.
Oct 22BusinessesSoftware
The Ones Who Built The Metro
From a wheat field on Fargo’s edge to downtown towers, suburban neighborhoods and adaptive-reuse landmarks, these developers changed where the region lives, works, shops and gathers.
Oct 22BusinessesManufacturing
Examining The Market With Andy Westby
Goldmark Commercial Real Estate’s Andy Westby breaks down the numbers behind Fargo-Moorhead’s industrial boom, the office squeeze and what owners should weigh before they lease, buy or build.
Sep 22BusinessesSoftware
Hidden-Gem AI Tools Worth Adding to Your Stack
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and the other major platforms receive most of the attention, but some of the most useful artificial intelligence products are designed for narrower jobs — verifying scientific papers, organizing interview notes, cleaning podcast audio, and more.
Sep 21BusinessesSoftware
NDSU AI Degree: Teaching AI From the Inside Out
North Dakota State University is preparing students and working professionals to answer AI's biggest questions through an expanding lineup of education. In fall 2026, NDSU launches a specialized artificial intelligence major built on its existing AI minor, data science curriculum, and certificate offerings.
Sep 21BusinessesSoftware
Applied Digital North Dakota Answers the Hard Questions
We understand that AI data centers in the region have generated controversy, so we decided to ask Applied Digital, the company behind Polaris Forge 1 in Ellendale and Polaris Forge 2 near Harwood, some questions. This is what they're saying.
Sep 21BusinessesFounders
Six Weeks to a New Foundation
For years, Ashley Ritteman tried to build the technology Valor Victoria needed. Working with Chipp.ai founder Scott Meyer, the West Fargo logistics company rebuilt years of freight-tracking software into an autonomous system in approximately six weeks.
Sep 21BusinessesSoftware
Inside Chipp AI Fargo: The Business That Builds Itself
Two years after Chipp made branded AI chatbots accessible to small businesses, Scott Meyer is making a much larger bet: that AI can build software, run workflows and handle entire parts of a company, without asking business owners to become technologists.