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Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie delivers first remarks as San Francisco Mayor-elect, shares vision for city [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie celebrated his victory on Friday in a speech and press conference in Chinatown, a day after incumbent London Breed conceded.

Lurie thanked his family and supporters and promised to build a “world class administration.”

“We have to take care of our teachers, our police, our firefighters and our nurses,” he said to a crowd of between 100-200 people under a clear, sunny sky at St. Mary’s Square. “We have to support neighborhood small businesses, attract business back downtown and foster a home for arts and culture.”

VIDEO: SF Mayor London Breed gives concession speech for mayoral race

San Francisco Mayor London Breed conceded to challenger Daniel Lurie on Thursday and said she called to congratulate the Levi Strauss heir.

He said he would declare a fentanyl state of emergency on his first day in office, without offering further details about what that would entail. He also …

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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