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From ruin to recovery: The Bolton Access Road’s restoration ahead of ski season [Video]

Months after July’s devastating flooding left The Bolton Access Road in ruins, this vital connection to Bolton Valley has finally been fully restored.The route serves as the lifeline for the ski resort, local homes, and businesses in the area, which were left stranded by the storm.“It’s not a great trend that we’ve seen over the last few years,” said Molly Mahar, president of the Vermont Ski Areas Association, reflecting on the increasing challenges posed by extreme weather events linked to climate change.The July floods left the Bolton Access Road unrecognizable, cutting off the community and highlighting the need for immediate repairs.Benjamin Heath, vice president of Engineers Construction Inc., was among those tasked with the emergency response. His team was responsible for restoring all the infrastructure around the Bolton area.“I live in that neck of the woods, so I know there’s a big residential presence, and of course, there’s a ski …

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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