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Milwaukee traffic grant to study every traffic signal in the city [Video]

BEHIND THIS PROJECT. TRAFFIC SIGNALS CREATE ORDER OUT OF WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE TRAFFIC CHAOS. AND AS MILWAUKEE CITY ENGINEER WILL TELL YOU, THERE IS ACTUAL SCIENCE THAT GOES INTO THE TIMING AND COORDINATION OF THOSE SIGNALS. WE WANT TO USE IT AS A SPEED MANAGEMENT TOOL. WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO STAY CLOSER TO THE SPEED LIMIT ON EVERY STREET IN THE CITY. WE ARE ALSO STUDYING WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD BE REDUCING THE SPEED LIMITS. SO AGAIN, IF WE REDUCE THE SPEED LIMIT, WE MAYBE SHOULD BE RETIMING THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS. SO THAT WILL WORK. YOU KNOW, THOSE WILL WORK IN TANDEM. THIS CAN IMPACT A LOT OF THINGS LIKE EVEN IDLING OR FUEL USE OR IMPATIENCE. EXACTLY. YES. MILWAUKEE HAS A STAGGERING 760 INTERSECTIONS CONTROLLED BY TRAFFIC SIGNALS, AND THE CITY WAS JUST AWARDED 5.3 MILLION FEDERAL DOLLARS TO CALL IN NATIONAL EXPERTS TO HELP …

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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