CONTENTS
COVER STORY
AUGUST 2016
ADDITIONAL CONTENT
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Editor's Note
Why we want the
Business Survival Guide
to be your go-to desktop
reference for everything
Fargo business.
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No mo' chores
Unfortunately, the amount
of time we have for chores
is inversely proportional
to how busy we are.
Thankfully, these three FM
companies are here to
pick up the slack (and the
dirty laundry).
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We want you to be an
Emerging Leader
Past the startup stage
and not quite sure what
direction your business
is headed? The Small
Business Administration
has an executive training
program for you.
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TEDxFargo recap
FARGO INC!'S
2016 BUSINESS
SURVIVAL GUIDE
This one-stop-shop is your field guide for all things
business in the Fargo-Moorhead professional
community, from events to organizations to
resources and everything in between. Whether
you're new in town or a card-carrying networker,
the Survival Guide has something for everyone.
ON THE COVER
Featured on this month's cover is Ryan Courneya, an account
executive at Newman Outdoor Advertising in Fargo. Before joining
Newman last year, Courneya served as a senior district executive with
Boy Scouts of America. He's also active in the FMWF Chamber of
Commerce's Young Professional Network (YPN)—even being featured
in the December edition of YPN's "One to Watch," has been a member
of Fargo Rotary for four years and serves on the PR committee for Lake
Agassiz Habitat for Humanity.
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AUGUST 2016
Emerging Prairie's Marisa
Jackels recaps the seventh
annual TEDxFargo,
which saw nearly 2,000
attendees who heard
from 25 speakers across
the country on a variety
of topics that all centered
around one theme:
acceleration.
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Hidden value:
activating
underutilized urban
space in Downtown
Fargo
Kilbourne Group's Mike
Allmendinger writes
about how one vacant
downtown building is
being temporarily reappropriated in unique
and exciting ways
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Yay for YEA!
Recruiting is now
underway for a FMWF
Chamber of Commerce
program that lets middle
and high school students
experience running their
very own business or
social movement.
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Ciara Stockeland:
Queen of Overstock
Local retail entrepreneur
and MODE Founder Ciara
Stockeland wants to open
75 stores in the next 10
years and she says she
might not be thinking big
enough.
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Office Vibes:
Discovery Benefits
It's Google...It's
Facebook...No, it's
Discovery Benefits! How
one Fargo company
brought Silicon Valley
culture to the Silicon
Prairie.
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Events Calendar
The State of Technology,
Business After Hours,
FargoConnect and many
more great business
events that you can't miss
in August.
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Proper preparation
pivotal
Go Fargo Jobs' Rick Berg
dishes on five common
interview mistakes he sees
when he's hiring.
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Take it from me
There's a lot of jobseeking advice out there.
Integreon U.S. Recruiting
Manager Holly Thingelstad
tells you which to heed
and which to ignore.
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Career Section
Two full pages of positions
at some of the best local
companies to work at.