WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of troubled U.S. banks leaped to the highest level in about five years and bank profits plunged by 86 percent in the second quarter, as slumps in the housing and credit markets continued. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data released Tuesday show 117 banks and thrifts were considered to be in [...]
We have an opportunity. An opportunity for people like us, an opportunity to define the future of our home – Boise.
Did you know that we have the oldest legislative body in the entire nation? Our state representatives, many senior business leaders and officials leading the education infrastructure are not tech savvy. Worse, they glaze [...]
8020’s publications are filled entirely with content generated by online readers. But will people pay for it?
Weary of his job as an urban planner for the city of Portland, Ore., Sloan Schang dreamed of making a living as a writer. How, exactly, he wasn’t sure. But he quit his job, sold his house and, [...]
Starting is the hardest part. I have this idea in my head that I have been rolling around for a while. The idea has to do with a fairly simple business that requires very little capitol to begin and a straight-forward, easy to understand product. I’m no rocket scientist, so the type of product I [...]
(This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007 by Paul Graham.)
There’s something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper.
There’s a pattern that we see over and over in technology. Initially there’s some kind of device that’s very [...]
