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What could a second Trump presidency mean for Massachusetts? [Video]

Massachusetts’ all-Democratic state leadership and all-Democratic congressional delegation could put the Bay State at odds with President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration.Many local political leaders say they are gearing up for a return to a contentious relationship with the White House. They’re also already acknowledging the role that economic concerns played in Vice President Kamala Harris’ electoral defeat. “We’ll make sure that we are doing everything within our power as an administration to take steps necessary to bring about the very best for residents (and) for our economy here,” Gov. Maura Healey said. Adversarial history with TrumpEight years ago, after Trump’s first election, then-Attorney General Healey quickly emerged as an adversary of the Republican’s policies. Within a week of Trump’s first win, Healey announced the creation of a hotline for the victims of discriminatory harassment after the election. A few weeks later, Healey also announced that she was prepared to take …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine