NORTH DAKOTA

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Oil boom creates millionaires and animosity in North Dakota

"These people have been farming rocks for generations," he says. "It’s like winning the lottery."

Or the booby prize.

Entrepreneurial North Dakota!

Another renewed contact at the Governor’s Conference was with Esther and Shawn Oehlke of SEO Precision. When I first met them in rural Crosby, ND they had recently moved from Albuquerque, NM with their two sons. At the time they had laser technology which could lock onto a nickel from 20 miles away. "We now can keep it locked onto that same nickel from 100 miles."

University of North Dakota awarded $1 million to study Bakken shale formation, ways to tap oil

A report from the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the Bakken in North Dakota and Montana.

North Dakota farm land value sets another record

"The big difference now from the land boom in the 1980s is that a lot of the land is paid for with cash."

Wingspan of Grand Forks, North Dakota Offers Angel Investing Funds for Start-up Businesses

What separates Wingspan from other angel investors is the access to: marketing and advertising personnel; accounting, legal, and IT services; office, warehouse and operational space; and executive management resources that are available for Wingspan business partners.

Who Wants to be a Venture Capitalist in North Dakota?

To date, DVG claims it is the only completely student-managed venture capital fund within the United States.

North Dakota Leads Nation in R&D Increase

North Dakota shows how a small, largely rural state can become a player in the high tech, knowledge-based economy. It’s a tremendous story of how government, universities and industry can cooperate to build a high-tech economy in rural communities.

Delegation Announces Partnership Between SEO Precision of Crosby, North Dakota and Northrop Grumman

Agreement will bolster North Dakota start-up, development of high-tech tools for U.S. military

Center for Innovation at the University of North Dakota – a shining example of what can be done to develop an entrepreneurial state thanks to 24 for years of great leadership from Bruce Gjovig

Twenty-four years later, one of the first entrepreneur outreach centers in the country has earned national attention, helped more than 400 start-up companies, manages two technology incubators, has formed three angel investing networks in the state and is home to the Dakota Venture Group the only student-managed venture fund in the country where students make investment decisions.

"the emptied prairie" from National Geograpic – North Dakota ghost towns speak of an irreversible decline.

Ghost towns stud North Dakota, and this empty house is just one bone in a giant skeleton of abandoned human desire.