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Trump has promised to end offshore wind. What will that mean for Californias big bet? Long Beach Post News [Video]

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California’s offshore wind industry could be a casualty if President-Elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to sign an executive order to “end” the offshore wind industry.

He cannot do it with the stroke of a pen. But Trump can deeply wound the state’s next-generation renewable energy source by cutting off funding just as it’s gaining a foothold in the U.S.

California’s offshore wind plans rely on a federal policy that offers billions of dollars in grants, subsidies and tax incentives.

Floating offshore wind farms, which bob in the deep ocean as much as 20 miles from shore, are still not common in U.S. waters. But the technology is well on its way to being deployed in the ocean off California, …

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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