May 18, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Omaha About halfway into my drive to Omaha last Wednesday for Big Omaha, I realized that I was in the car with two fellow Des Moines residents who were, as Big Omaha MC David Hauser affectionately … read more
Posts by Levi Rosol
May 18, 2011 by Levi Rosol
May 17, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Omaha Travis Kalanick is the co-founder and CEO of Uber, a startup working to provide high-quality, on-demand car service booked easily through a user's iPhone or SMS. His previous company, Red Swoosh, was sold for $19 million in April 2007. Prior companies include Scour, the world's first p2p search engine, where Kalanick also achieved the distinction of being sued for $250 billion. After giving a brief background on his childhood, Kalanick jumped … read more
March 31, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines For almost one year now Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg have been hard at work building Des Moines' newest startup, VineMe. VineMe is billed as a "social platform that allows the world to crowdsource content by time, tags, places and people." read more
March 3, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines Let's face it, the world is becoming more and more obsessed with sharing. Everywhere you go, someone is taking a picture of their meal and uploading it to Foodspotting, checking into foursquare with a picture of the people they are with, or taking a picture of a real estate ad to get more information about a property with Geosync Gobal's product. Boston-based Pongr Media (who also has an office… read more
February 8, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines (Photo by Rob Jensen via Flickr.) It's that time again. Startup Weekend is getting ready to kick off its third event in Des Moines and it's only a little over three weeks away. I personally have attended one of these events, and to be completely honest, at no fault of anyone but myself, I didn't get what I expected. I went into that first Startup Weekend with the mentality that I was about to jump into a… read more
December 16, 2010 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines This week I had an opportunity to sit down and get to know one of Des Moines' most active entrepreneurs, James Eliason. A 1997 graduate of Valley High School in West Des Moines, Eliason had a decision to make: play baseball for Central College or Wartburg College, or take a shot at the University of Iowa or Iowa State. Ultimately landing at U of I, James graduated in 2001 with an economics… read more