by kaitlyn | Nov 15, 2022 | Magazine, Success Stories
Featured in Carina Schell was in first grade when she first laid eyes on a tutu. From that moment on, she began a journey that would soon become her lifelong career. She enrolled in ballet shortly after and continued to dance throughout her childhood. When it came...
by Dakota Business Lending | Aug 10, 2022 | Success Stories, Featured
Great things come when people work together. That’s how it’s always been for Mid-America Aerotech. Formerly a subsidiary of Moog (a worldwide aerospace defense and manufacturing company), Mid-America Aerotech was originally founded as a maintenance/repair...
by Dakota Business Lending | Apr 13, 2022 | Success Stories, Featured
The story of Total Balance begins with one unlikely object: a gumball machine. It was this gumball machine that inspired Dr. Dan Johnson to open the doors to his entrepreneurial mindset and propose his business plan idea to his peers on the school bus: purchase 1,000...
by Dakota Business Lending | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured, Success Stories
Megan Wold loves coffee. Not just the taste or the variety of options, but the experience and atmosphere that coffee brings to the world. Whether it’s enjoying a cozy, warm cup on a winter day or going out with friends to a local coffee shop to catch up over a...
by Dakota Business Lending | Mar 14, 2022 | Magazine, Success Stories
Featured in Craig Helberg has always had a knack for fixing and repairing things. Even as a child, he was constantly taking things apart, figuring out how they work, and putting them back together. It wasn’t until many years later, when he had a wife and family of...
by Dakota Business Lending | Mar 14, 2022 | Magazine, Success Stories
Featured in 30 years ago, Woodland Resort in Devils Lake, North Dakota, was nothing but cattle pastures and farmland. The grandparents of Kyle Blanchfield had purchased and lived on the farmstead off the shore of Creel Bay since the mid-1940’s. In 1988, Kyle’s...