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Debris removal slowly continues after Helene [Video]

Weeks after Hurricane Helene swept through the area, large piles of debris continued to line the streets of neighborhoods across Greenwood County. Residents say cleanup efforts are dragging on longer than expected, but county officials confirm progress is being made while also acknowledging that there is a long road ahead. According to Greenwood County leaders, in the immediate aftermath of Helene, the county experienced a 100% power outage, and nearly every street was blocked by storm damage. Local business owner Taylor Tucker, who runs Thayer’s Furniture and Fine Gifts, says she continues to hear stories of hardship from her customers. “It was like PTSD almost. They wanted to talk about it,” Tucker said. Like many others in the county, Tucker’s street remains cluttered with piles of debris. She worries the conditions are becoming hazardous. “When I come home at night, and it’s dark, and we don’t have a streetlight there, …

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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