by Dakota Business Lending | Nov 15, 2022 | Magazine, Success Stories
Featured in Heather Arnt and Kelli Ellenbaum had been joking about starting their own private practice since they met as freshman at the University of North Dakota. After attending almost every class together, the Speech-Language Pathologists parted ways after...
by Dakota Business Lending | Nov 15, 2022 | Success Stories, Featured
The stories of our borrowers – the brave individuals who took the leap towards achieving their dreams – are filled with triumphs, challenges, and many twists and turns along the way. For many, this entrepreneurial journey began not when they went to school...
by Dakota Business Lending | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured, Magazine, Success Stories
Featured in “A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” – Shawn Hitchcock Ania Bartkowiak’s journey began when a trusted supervisor, Hettie Jans Wortelboer, saw something in her that she hadn’t seen in herself. She was...
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...
