Idaho Business Review IBR

As a business owner, you’ve worked hard to build your business. But what about the day when you might want to walk away from it all? Business transition planning is perhaps one of the most complex tasks a business owner ...

Law enforcement officers have no problem using the latest and greatest technologies to police the people, whether it’s using facial recognition tools, cellphone geolocation data, or recordings obtained from smartphone technologies such as Amazon’s Alexa. But it seems that when ...

Ryan Knoll thought social media sites like Facebook would be the best places to advertise his brand-new home cleaning service. Then he had an epiphany. “Put yourself in the customer’s shoes. How would that customer go about trying to find ...

Sometimes it’s simply about the money. More than one-third (36 percent) of lawyers in a recent survey said they would be most enticed to make a lateral job change to another law firm by higher earnings potential. Work-life balance ranked ...

Closed-end funds tend to be a misunderstood investment. Unfortunately, when something is misunderstood, it is often pushed to the side and something else takes its place. For long-term investors, though, I believe closed-end funds are investments worth taking the time ...

Your time — whether it is billable or not — is important to manage because the work still needs to get done and preferably in a well-organized fashion. Over time, I have learned that when I start my day with ...

The U.S. economy goes through cycles of growth and recessions. Once growth sustains a consistent pattern the Fed often intervenes by raising rates to thwart off potential inflation threats above 2 percent. This restrictive policy ultimately curbs growth in large ...

A decade ago, smartphones were in their infancy. The iPhone was not even a year old and widespread adoption had not yet occurred. Many were suspicious of the touch screen interface, and lawyers in particular clung to the idea that ...

The start of a new year provides the opportunity for a highly subjective retrospective on 35 years of patent law — where we’ve been and where we might be going. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (1965-1969) was reputed to have ...

While you work on your personal New Year’s resolutions for 2019, or dust off your 2018 … 2017 … 2016 resolutions, this year resolve to start with a review and solid implementation of legal compliance and financial goals for construction ...