The IPO window is closed and won’t re-open until 2010.

Fast Company staff — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:50:17 -0400

Todd Kimmel, Principal at venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures, warns that new IPOs between now and 2010 and highly unlikely. The repercussions are likely to be felt by all, except early-stage companies "that plan to have their heads down for the next year or more working on proofs of concept and reducing technology risk. Those companies will be in a better position than those in need of capital to scale."

Fast Talk Question - Will Hollywood do better or worse during the economic downturn?

Fast Company staff — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:44:26 -0400

Will Hollywood do better or worse during the economic downturn?

Is there any point to owning an electric car while coal plants are still heavily polluting?

Fast Company staff — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:46:35 -0400

Is there any point to owning an electric car while coal plants are still heavily polluting?

By suspending its space shuttle program in 2010, the US is retarding innovation and adopting a policy of deliberate dependence o

Fast Company staff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:09:23 -0400

Josh Schwartz reports that in two years Star City will be the only place to send astronauts from any nation to the International Space Station. "From 2010, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shuts down the space shuttle program, to 2015, when the next generation of American spacecraft is scheduled to arrive, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station, buying seats on Soyuz craft as space tourists do."

Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature

Fast Company staff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:30:28 -0400

Centrifugal pumps consume massive amounts of energy and generate cavitation (tiny bubbles) as they work, causing vibration that makes them noisy and inefficient. The nature-spiraled volute pump doesn’t cavitate, and thus uses 20% to 40% less juice. It’s also gentler than its old-school counterparts: “The delta smelt [in the Sacramento River] has been munched up by pumps,” says Pax Scientific CEO Jay Harman.

The Vision of John Maeda

Fast Company staff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:30:19 -0400

Digital images from Shiseido calendar series, 2005.

Interactive graphics for Apple, 1992.

A “reactive graphic” translating between cursor motion and color, 2000.

Excerpt of cover art for the UCLA Extension School, 2005.

A New York Times Magazine cover, 1999.

Video stills of “John Maeda: Nature," 2005.

The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl

Fast Company staff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:30:09 -0400

Holl turned a conventional project into Linked Hybrid, a mini-city of towers with sky bridges and a “floating” cinema. The 2.4-million-square-foot space has the design world agape.

Holl’s redesigned interior of an 1890 building at New York University plays with light and what he calls “porosity.”

For the University of Iowa, Hold chose to cantilever part of the School of Art and Art History over a pond.

Which policy brought up in the presidential debate seems mostly likely to help the economy?

Fast Company staff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:17:07 -0400

Which policy brought up in the presidential debate seems mostly likely to help the economy?

Are plummeting oil prices bad news?

Fast Company staff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:41:27 -0400

Are plummeting oil prices bad news?

Small business is the economic backbone of America and certainly the path to any economic recovery.

Fast Company staff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:40 -0400

After last Friday's passage of the $700 billion bailout measure, there are still plenty of skeptics who argue there are smarter alternatives. Some critics argue that we are forgetting our country's core business identity: the small business.