Levi Rosol

  • As second birthday nears, Goodsmiths founder reflects on changes, growth

    Just months before its second birthday, the founders of Des Moines-based Goodsmiths are reflecting on their business’ growth and making some changes. As both the startup’s revenue and sales have been on the rise 15 of the last 21 months, the startup recently reduced its team to focus on marketing and attracting users to its…

  • Goodsmiths’ party celebrates $1 million mark, hints at what’s next

    Amid a crowd of friends, fellow founders and startup enthusiasts of all stripes Wednesday night, Goodsmiths announced the arrival of its group buying option and milestone of $1 million in inventory. “Now we can finally say, hey, we’re different than the others that are out there,” co-founder Levi Rosol said in the startup’s West Des…

  • Aiming to teach kids code, CoderDojo returns Saturday to Des Moines

    Plenty of parents want their kids to grow up to be doctors and lawyers, but what about programmers and developers? CoderDojo Des Moines is ready to train the next generation of techies, from middle school on up. CoderDojo started in Ireland and is popular in Europe, but Des Moines and Iowa City are among the…

  • Goodsmiths brings on former Better Homes exec, readies group buying

    Often, startups are fueled by passion. For Deb Gore Ohrn, the decision to end her 18-year career at Meredith Corporation for an 18-month old startup was in following her heart. “It was just like, ‘Oh my God, I need to be working with (Goodsmiths),’ ” Gore Ohrn said in a phone interview Tuesday. That feeling…

  • Goodsmiths is open to buyers and ready to make more moves

    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…

  • Prairie Moves: Flying Hippo, Hurrdat, Grip and more

    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…

  • Prairie Moves: jTube, Shane Farritor, Levi Rosol and more

    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,…

  • Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more

    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…

  • 9 Blue Labs to connect ‘exceptional ideas with exceptional talent’

    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 …

  • Eliason & Rosol launch Craft.ly – Handmade goods meet group buying

    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…