Today!

Link for today's edition for The Startup Show will be posted on http://Facebook.com/John.S.Wren just before 10 am Mountain

Want to start a school?

Our speaker today has started 23 schools, join us and learn fro his experience. See http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber RSVP yes or no to get an invitation to future meetings. 

If you'd be willing to share your startup experience as a speaker or if you'd like help starting a new IDEA Cafe in cooperation with your local chamber or other group call us at (303)861-1447 

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JohnWren.com Start!: Let's talk...: Tomorrow (Fri, Dec 5) I'll be at Panera Bread, 13th & Grant, old guy with beard and red hat. Stop by and say hi, let's talk about how we can help each other and those who are just getting started. Or call me any time (except Friday afternoons) at (303)861-1447

Want help?

If you want help as you start in a new direction with your work, give us a call at (303)861-1447.

Leave a complete, confidential message. I'm the only one with the code to the voice mail box.

Someone will get back with you within 24 hours. 

This life is short, let's get started! Call now, (303)861-1447

John S. Wren
Founder and CEO
Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
"We cooperate with local chambers and others to  provide
 more help for startups and small business owners."
+ Recover + Start + Grow + Flourish + AGDM +
(303)861-1447

Post a short intro of your business and/or yourself on our
Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

Follow us on Twitter @IDEACafe 

Check out our Linked In Group and our Google+ Page.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best wishes as we have the opportunity to count our blessings.

I'm very, very grateful for all of you who have participated here on line and in our various meetings. You who have liked and shared, read and commented, attended and shared:

Thank you.

John S. Wren
Founder and CEO
Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
"We cooperate with local chambers and others to  provide
 more help for startups and small business owners."
+ Recover + Start + Grow + Flourish + AGDM +
(303)861-1447

Post a short intro of your business and/or yourself on our
Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

Follow us on Twitter @IDEACafe

Check out our Linked In Group and our Google+ Page.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are working through Thanksgiving weekend. If you want real help from a real person call (303)861-1447 and leave a complete confidential message and someone will get back to you within 24 hours. 

Also call if you'd be willing to help return phone calls and you are in general agreement with the book that we are adopting as our handbook, go to Amazon and search for the book "Daring Mighty Things: The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business.  

Startup: Pop, Ben Franklin and You.

Short video, preview of weekly online meeting. What to read, how to get your questions about startup answered. See: 

https://www.facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber/posts/871591356193682

Help your local chamber give more real help to startups.

If you'd be willing to help your local chamber of commerce, service club or community newspaper give more real help to people who want to start a new business, we'd like to talk with you.

What is real startup help?

Take a look at Daring Mighty Things-- The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business by our founder John Wren. (Some can read this free on Amazon, or the Kindle edition is only 99-cents.

If you'd be willing to help your local chamber call and let's talk. Call us at (303)861-1447

Life's short, let's start!

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Save the Real Entrepreneur?

Would reintroducing the real entrepreneur into our economy revive it like the reintroduction of the wolf in Yellowstone has revived it? What do you think? More at our FACEBOOK Page https://www.facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber/posts/866647770021374  PLEASE SHARE 

NPR about Socrates

A link to an excellent short NPR piece on Socrates just posted on https://www.facebook.com/DenverSocratesCafe check it out.

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New fall season for The Startup Show

We'll be announcing our guest for the opening show for the 8 week
fall season for The Startup Show soon.

If you'd like to be a guest to talk about how you started your business,
contact us after you've met the Google+ requirements (see top left on
this page.) Questions? Call us now (303)861-1447

My mother Martha Jane (Janie Edwards) Wren

Martha Jane (Janie Edwards) Wren: Jane Wren, 89, of Denver passed away on September 20, 2014 . A memorial service for mom, “Tutu’s Aloha” will be held at 11am on Monday, September 29.

New! Online IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop

Each Friday morning, our contribution to GEW Global Entrepreneurship Week. More info and optional RSVP at http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber. To be an announced guest to share your startup experience call and leave pitch on (303)861-1447 PLEASE SHARE! 

Most powerful tool for your startup and growth

Ever since Ben Franklin pulled together a group of his friends back in 1727, the phenomenal growth of the United States of America has been fueled by what until recently was one of our most American of institutions. What is it?

Small independent peer self-directed learning groups.

Ben Franklin writes about that first little band of brothers in his famous autobiography. 

They called themselves the Junto. 

We'll be writing here about that first small group here each day over the next week or so, and a Google+ Hangout will be available for those who'd like to discuss what is said here about them.

Stay tuned.

Free IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops

Not sure what you're going to do Monday morning?

Join us  Friday, then use this weekend to really START NOW Monday morning!

If we are successful, you'll be too busy to come back next week! But join us any time you want to start in a new direction with your work, starting a new career, a new project or campaign, or a new business.

Denver Capitol Hill IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, each Friday, 2 to 3:30  p.m. at Panera Bread, 13th and Grant. Free. We just ask you bring your brain for the brainstorming.

New Friday Morning Englewood IDEA Cafe, 10 to 11:30 p.m. at Englewood Library just north east of Sante Fe and Hampden in the Englewood municipal building.

Ask for help starting an IDEA Cafe or similar meeting in cooperation with your local chamber or other group. Our new slogan, "Only on Fridays. If this isn't Friday, it can't be an IDEA Cafe." When you call, we'll tell you why.

More about the above meetings and optional RSVP (Walkins welcome) see http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber or call (303)861-1447  

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New address

After 16 years at 960 Grant, we have a new address: 1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver CO 80120. Telephone remains (303)861-1447 

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How adversity can lead to new growth. PLEASE SHARE

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Join us this Friday?

Post by John S Wren.

Meetup.com is a great place to find new members.

Starting a new meeting? Check out our Meetup.com site, then sign up for an account of your own. Or let us post it on our site as you get started.

Want help starting your new group? We hold a weekly "How to Start a New Group online meeting each Tuesday afternoon.
Our Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop and Z-NOS Communication Campfire meetings are listed, feel free to join us any Friday afternoon you are in Denver.

Check out http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber  And please forward it along to any of your friends who you think might be interested in what we are doing.

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JohnWren.com Start!: IDEA Cafe in old Rocky Mtn News.: Item in old  Rocky Mountain News. We are still doing it, Friday afternoons at Panera Bread, 13th & Grant and elsewhere, now  http:// www.Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber  or http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

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Join us for Denver IDEA Salon and/or IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, Friday afternoons, 2:30 p.m. at Panera Bread, 13th & Grant here in Denver.

Online 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays, how to start a new group.

More info, optional RSVPs click here