Friday, September 30 Mike O'Donnell, Executive Director, http://ColoradoLendingSource.org/ will be with us at our Denver IDEA Cafe to talk about his career startup experience.

Join us to get help as you get started, to help yourself as you help others when you share your startup experience, brainstorm, and exchange information about upcoming events and other resources.

To RSVP go to our Meetup.com site or see the link to the meeting on our Facebook Page.

 

Next Friday's (Sept 23) speaker at our Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop: Daniel Epstein (photo)  http://UnreasonableInstitute.org/ on "My startup experience." After the IDEA Cafe at 4 p.m. there will be a discussion of Eric Ries's new book The Lean Startup, I've invited the meembers of The Lean Startup Meetup to join us.

Join us for the Denver IDEA Cafe any Friday to get help as you get started, to help yourself as you help others when you share your startup experience, to brainstorm, and to exchange information about upcoming events and other resources. For more information and optional RSVP, see http://meetup.com/Denver-IDEA-Cafe

This Friday, September 16, 2 p.m. Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, Free. We share startup experience and brainstorm. More info and optional RSVP at http://meetup.com/Denver-IDEA-Cafe or on the link to our Facebook group on our SBCC Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber.
This is our new monthly "reunion" meeting, we have held it on the final Friday for the last two months, we're making this change to a Friday earlier in the month to see if it help attendance, so far this has not been the case.

We'll try the monthly "reunion" for a while, see if we develop a core group. If so, we'll continue. If not, we'll go back to making every meeting a one off, when the meetings are successful people are too busy to come back the next week.

Dennis Krieger

Dave Westfall

 At the Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop Friday, September 9: Entrepreneurs Dennis Krieger (photo to left), founder of Zingers http://zingers.biz/ and Dave Westfall (photo to right) http://www.TheSmallBusinessAccelerator.com speaking on the topic, "My startup experience." Join us to get help as you get started, to help yourself as you help others when you share your startup experience, to brainstorm, and to exchange information about upcoming events and other resources.

What is the IDEA Cafe?

Since 1994, we help people people who are starting a new career, a new project or campaign, or a new business. How do we help? Those who attend (including you, we've all started something) share startup experience, we brainstorm, and we share information.

“ What a great concept, and it created a lovely opportunity to meet with other people in the community. Starting a business can be a lonely venture; I'd definitely recommend this to anyone looking to break that cycle. ” Megan Tackett on May 7, 2011.

“ This was a good experience for me. I enjoyed the people and the brainstorming. Since we all face challenges of some type, I would heartily recommend it to anyone involved in a startup activitiy. Jack Rouff on Apr 30, 2011.

“ Great format, small group works best for this. I encourage everyone to try this group if you want some help getting started. ” Anthony Sanchez, Marketing Club on Sep 25, 2010.

Meetings are free and open to everyone, we just ask that you bring your brain for the brainstorming!

Who should attend?

Anyone who is starting a new direction, starting a new career, new project or campaign, or starting a new business is invited to join us for the Denver IDEA Cafe, and we especially encourage members of local chambers who are interested in helping them provide more help to startups.

Join us any Friday when you are headed in a new direction with your work and need a boost at the end of a long week, or when you are willing to share your startup experience.

The first 12 to RSVP here on meetup.com each week are guaranteed a seat at the brainstorming table until the start of the meeting at 2 p.m., others are welcome to attend and either take the seat of a no-show or to sit in the peanut gallery to listen to the speakers and observe the brainstorming.

For more, go to http://meetup.com/Denver-IDEA-Cafe