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Interactive Resource Centers Greensboro executive director Kristina Singleton resigns [Video]

The Interactive Resource Center (IRC) Executive Director in Greensboro has resigned.The IRC said Kristina Singleton stepped down after eight years leading the organization. The move comes as the IRC ended its pilot program in early November that extended hours to 24/7 operations and instead will move to its original mission as a day center. In July, security concerns temporarily postponed the IRC’s funding from the city of Greensboro. “Our shelter system is bursting at the seams,” Singleton said at the time. “We are in a humanitarian crisis.”The IRC later implemented security upgrades , including adding outside lighting and launching a new digitized check-in software for guests. However, in October a 25-year-old man was shot in the parking lot of the IRC and later died. There was a security guard on site at the time of the shooting. The shooting occurred just weeks after the IRC announced changes to its service …

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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