Y Combinator's "How to Start a Startup" video and text.

Y Combinator has worked with hundreds of startups, this is distillation of their experience.

Worth reading and watching, if you take this as a way of building your own method, not as a cook book that you can use to avoid really thinking about anything when you're starting.

Read “Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup” by Sam Altman and watch YouTube video there, too.

5 facts about the minimum wage

My dad used to say that like the definition of a living wage (enough to live on), whether someone is for or against minimum wage laws depends on whether you are receiving it or paying it out.

Interesting article about the minimum wage over the years, check it out, decide for yourself: are the minimum wage laws good or bad for the poor? For employers? For our economy?

Click here:  5 facts about the minimum wage

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Grassroots Rules. : Save the Caucus? Why?

Grassroots Rules. : Save the Caucus? Why?: Why is it worth fighting for the Colorado Caucus? No one has ever explained it's value better than my friend Sue:   Caucuses ar...

Kill the Colorado Caucus Killing SB15-287

Is Mitt Romney paying Ryan Call to clear the path for Colorado's delegates?

It's a well known fact Call was 4-square behind Romney, his backing candidates in primary races is the #1 reason he was not re-elected Colorado State GOP Chair.

Now will Steve House, the new GOP State honcho let Call get away with pulling the rug out from under the Colorado GOP with the Senate Bill 287 he has ginned up.

Call has fool reporters into thinking he still speaks for the GOP, he really never did with his primary race diddling, he certainly does not now.

Owen Hill was the only Republican on the Senate kill committee to see through the smoke screen. Hopefully the Republicans will kill it in Appropriations Committee, possibly at 8 a.m. on Monday.

I wish Steve House would attend and put this caucus-killing measure down.

For more about why it's so bad see http://Facebook.com/Colorado.Caucus.News and links there.