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Matters of the State: Previewing Gov. Noems budget address; Midwest economy update [Video]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – This week on Matters of the State, we look ahead to Gov. Kristi Noem’s budget address on Tuesday.

Rep. Chris Karr joins us to discuss the things he’s keeping an ear out for in the address, as well as what could be on the docket for lawmakers during the upcoming legislative session.

Meanwhile, South Dakota educators are urging state lawmakers to stay away from the possibility of a school voucher program, citing concerns about school funding.

We also sit down with Creighton University economist Dr. Ernie Goss to discuss the latest Rural Mainstreet Index and what it means for the Midwest economy, especially farmers.

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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