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Judge orders City of Lipscomb’s assets stay frozen 7 more days [Video]

The city of Lipscomb will have to go another week with no access to its financial accounts. “Judge, if you dissolve the TRO (temporary restraining order). They’ll just go out there and transfer the funds to some other account, that’s been unreleased, and we’ll never be able to retract those funds,” John Kachelman, the deputy attorney general, said.The attorney general’s office got what it wanted in court. The temporary restraining order freezing the city of Lipscomb’s assets will stay for another seven days, until it can prove how much money it actually needs to pay its employees.“The city’s services have to go forward. We also have to like I said, have restricted funds, deadlines to meet and spend, and we’ve got payrolls. I’m sure we’ll discuss,” Lucien Blakenship, legal counsel for the city of Lipscomb, said to Kachelman and a judge.Kachelman asked, “Do you have a number? Do you know …

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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