April 5, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Urbandale The "Marketplace for Makers" is now open to buyers. Goodsmiths, a website for crafters to buy and sell their handmade goods, on Wednesday opened its virtual doors to shoppers for the first time. Though Goodsmiths co-founders James Eliason and Levi Rosol characterized Wednesday as a "soft launch," in part because Dwolla was the only payment option immediately available — PayPal will be added … read more
September 30, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. … read more
September 20, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
What is Prairie Moves? - Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. … read more
August 9, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we'll miss covering because we can't get to all of them. If you'd like to help us increase our content volume, check out our post: "Calling all contributors: SPN adding to team across the region". read more
July 12, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Eliason Media founder James Eliason and recent technical hire, Levi Rosol, are teaming up to launch 9 Blue Labs on August 1. "At 9 Blue Labs," Eliason wrote in the company's first blog post, "we bring together exceptional ideas with … read more
February 10, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines A new take on online group buying opened beta sign ups today. The website, Craft.ly, is a service aimed exclusively at the "handmade goods" market. James Eliason, also of Eliason Media and Uppward, approached cofounder Levi Rosol, also of ScoreYard and a Silicon Prairie News contributor, with the idea after learning of it through his girlfriend, would-be crafter Julie Deeds. "[The] concept… read more
January 26, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, featuring round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News were joined today by Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News. read more
January 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, featuring round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News are joined today by Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News. read more
January 24, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1:30 p.m. for Episode 22 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. Our guests this week will be Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, that features round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl… read more
December 15, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
More exciting news for us here at Silicon Prairie News as we round out the year and prepare for 2011. We're expanding our team of writers by four, bringing the team to 10 and upping our presence to five cities across the Silicon Prairie – from East to West, we now have writers in Cedar Falls and Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. With the exception of Steven Adams, a recent college graduate, each of our new writers is deeply involved in the Silicon Prairie community. And Adams is on his way as he began writing for us this past September. read more