Speaking of Dwolla and tight networks, Shane Neuerburg, one of Dwolla's co-founders lives in Osage, MN, a township with only 774 people in it. He's now working

Speaking of Dwolla and tight networks, Shane Neuerburg, one of Dwolla's co-founders lives in Osage, MN, a township with only 774 people in it. He's now working with a startup in Fargo, ND called BreadVault, but Fargo itself is full of startups working closely in incubators and community spaces, many funded by Doug Burgum, who built Great Plains Software and sold it to Microsoft in the 90s and is now Microsoft's largest campus outside of Redmond. Some of the Burgum funded projects work closely with Mayo Clinic and Sanford Health. And these are just the smaller startups in the upper midwest. Minneapolis is a hotbed for media startups.