Small Business Online 15-Minute Morning Show will now be just once a week, hope your join us this Friday (July 22) or any Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, or watch the recording of the show anytime during the week, see the small blue line "Small Business Chamber" underneath the TV screen to the right.
Internet expert and entrepreneur Dave Taylor will be with us next Friday for our Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, should be a great meeting. More info and optional RSVP at http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber, or to guarantee a seat for yourself RSVP at http://Meetup.com/Denver-IDEA-Cafe
I'm reading a couple of great books that we'll be talking about on the SBCC Morning Show this week. Tim Harford's Why Success Always Starts with Failure, see his 3 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_mCvb-KyY; and Wayne Rogers's (remember him from MASH?) Make Your Own Rules, see the Facebook Page.
This is www.SmallBizChamber.org SBCC Startup Method: Recover, Imagine, Think, Learn; to Start, Grow, Flourish. www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber, "Visit Group" and join us, it's free. Questions? (303)861-1447. Emergency? First call your local 911 or The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
We've started a new 15 minute online broadcast The Small Business Chamber Morning Show, see link to the right. It airs live each morning Monday thru Friday at 10:30 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. You can watch it anytime lin the link just below the color bars to the right.
If you have news about startup you'd like to have shared on the show, email the host/camera man/producer/one-man-band John Wren at John@JohnWren.com
We are recruiting Ambassadors to help us start new IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop in cooperation with local chambers across Colorado. Ambassadors will also encourage participation in the new online Colorado Business Directory & Almanac http://www.PioneerHQ.com. If you'd like to know more about being a Small Business Chamber/PioneerHQ.com Ambassador, contact John Wren at (303)861-1447 or John@JohnWren.com
Our Friday Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop is now the "beginners meeting" for your new, free Small Business Chamber of Commerce. To participate, click on the meetup.com link to it on the right of this page, or see the link on our Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber
This life is short, let's get started!
If you have news about startup you'd like to have shared on the show, email the host/camera man/producer/one-man-band John Wren at John@JohnWren.com
We are recruiting Ambassadors to help us start new IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop in cooperation with local chambers across Colorado. Ambassadors will also encourage participation in the new online Colorado Business Directory & Almanac http://www.PioneerHQ.com. If you'd like to know more about being a Small Business Chamber/PioneerHQ.com Ambassador, contact John Wren at (303)861-1447 or John@JohnWren.com
Our Friday Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop is now the "beginners meeting" for your new, free Small Business Chamber of Commerce. To participate, click on the meetup.com link to it on the right of this page, or see the link on our Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber
This life is short, let's get started!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
From John Wren's Daring Mighty Things-- The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business, endorse by Dr. Amar Bhide http://bhide.net. For a link to a free copy of the entire book, email John@JohnWren.com or call (303)861-1447.
The world will always have government, big-business, and big-labor: government for those things individuals cannot do for themselves and big-business and big-labor because of certain efficiencies of scale.
Unfortunately, the large scale of these three forms of bureaucratic operations leads to problems:
1) Efficiency comes at the expense of intelligence and creativity. The large organization has a tendency to get better and better at doing what eventually is the wrong thing.
2) Power corrupts. Governmental corruption is kept in check by our process of representative democracy. Big-business corruption is kept in check to the extent that the free market is allowed to operate. That is why big business hates competition.
The world view of the bureaucrat is necessarily different from that of the entrepreneur. The steps recommended here for starting a new business will not make sense to most bureaucrats.
If you decide to work with a business mentor, it is important that you work with someone who subscribes to the following philosophy of business. This person almost always will be an independent business owner.
Beware of seminars about how to start a new business; the most deadly advice for entrepreneurs comes from bureaucrats, public or private, active or retired.
Yes, the world really does need you to create a new business!
There is always a shortage of entrepreneurs, that's why it pays so well. This shortage of start-up specialists is caused by two things:
1) The infinite power of the human mind to create new ways to help people; and
2) People's unlimited need for help. Read today's newspaper. It's easy to see the world needs help. To the entrepreneur, these problems are opportunities in working clothes!
From "Daring Mighty Things-The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business by John S. Wren, MBA+, available on Amazon.com. Wren is a Denver business consultant and founder of the new Small Business Chamber of Commerce. For more see www.JohnWren.com or the Small Business Chamber Facebook Page. Contact Wren at (303)861-1447 or John@JohnWren.com
The world will always have government, big-business, and big-labor: government for those things individuals cannot do for themselves and big-business and big-labor because of certain efficiencies of scale.
Unfortunately, the large scale of these three forms of bureaucratic operations leads to problems:
1) Efficiency comes at the expense of intelligence and creativity. The large organization has a tendency to get better and better at doing what eventually is the wrong thing.
2) Power corrupts. Governmental corruption is kept in check by our process of representative democracy. Big-business corruption is kept in check to the extent that the free market is allowed to operate. That is why big business hates competition.
The world view of the bureaucrat is necessarily different from that of the entrepreneur. The steps recommended here for starting a new business will not make sense to most bureaucrats.
If you decide to work with a business mentor, it is important that you work with someone who subscribes to the following philosophy of business. This person almost always will be an independent business owner.
Beware of seminars about how to start a new business; the most deadly advice for entrepreneurs comes from bureaucrats, public or private, active or retired.
Yes, the world really does need you to create a new business!
There is always a shortage of entrepreneurs, that's why it pays so well. This shortage of start-up specialists is caused by two things:
1) The infinite power of the human mind to create new ways to help people; and
2) People's unlimited need for help. Read today's newspaper. It's easy to see the world needs help. To the entrepreneur, these problems are opportunities in working clothes!
From "Daring Mighty Things-The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business by John S. Wren, MBA+, available on Amazon.com. Wren is a Denver business consultant and founder of the new Small Business Chamber of Commerce. For more see www.JohnWren.com or the Small Business Chamber Facebook Page. Contact Wren at (303)861-1447 or John@JohnWren.com
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Denver Post reports today (click here) on a new Colorado governement effort to boost startups.
Here's the comment I just posted:
If formal planning and market research worked as well as the Small Business Administration, SCORE, SBDCs, and the academics their money and power have influenced think, we'd have a planned economy, not a market economy.
The big problem is that we have set up government programs to snuff out the entreprenurial spirit in America.
Local chambers of commerce, trade associations, and other ways business owners and entrepreneurs gather can do a lot of good. But the SBA/SCORE/SBDC cancer should be cut out, in my opinion.
Maybe a group like this can take a step back and see this very real problem.
John S. Wren, MBA+
Founder, Small Business Chamber of Commerce
IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops * Franklin Circle Peer Advisory Groups
See our Facebook Page: Small Business Chamber
(MBA is a warning. The + means I'm a recovering MBA, that much of what I learned in graduate business school I've had to overcome to be truely helpful to people who what to start something new. Does that mean I have all the answers? No, just the opposite. Again, it's a warning in the interest of full disclosure and transparency.)
Here's the comment I just posted:
If formal planning and market research worked as well as the Small Business Administration, SCORE, SBDCs, and the academics their money and power have influenced think, we'd have a planned economy, not a market economy.
The big problem is that we have set up government programs to snuff out the entreprenurial spirit in America.
Local chambers of commerce, trade associations, and other ways business owners and entrepreneurs gather can do a lot of good. But the SBA/SCORE/SBDC cancer should be cut out, in my opinion.
Maybe a group like this can take a step back and see this very real problem.
John S. Wren, MBA+
Founder, Small Business Chamber of Commerce
IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops * Franklin Circle Peer Advisory Groups
See our Facebook Page: Small Business Chamber
(MBA is a warning. The + means I'm a recovering MBA, that much of what I learned in graduate business school I've had to overcome to be truely helpful to people who what to start something new. Does that mean I have all the answers? No, just the opposite. Again, it's a warning in the interest of full disclosure and transparency.)
Monday, June 20, 2011
In today's Denver Post:
Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, a free weekly meeting for aspiring
entrepreneurs and others looking at a career change. This week's workshop
will feature Karl Dakin speaking on the topic, "My startup experience and how
I found my new job with Regis University as executive director of the John J.
Sullivan Endowed Chair for Free Enterprise." To be held at Panera Bread,
1330 Grant St., Denver. More info: SBCcBlog.com
For optional RSVP go to our Denver Small Business Chamber Facebook Group
or click on the link to the right for our meetup.com site. Of course, no RSVP is
every required, but it does help us plan.
This should be a very interesting meeting, hope you can join us if you are starting
in a new direction, and please email a link to this site to your friends who have
recently lost a job, had a bright idea, or for any other reason might find it helpful.
Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, a free weekly meeting for aspiring
entrepreneurs and others looking at a career change. This week's workshop
will feature Karl Dakin speaking on the topic, "My startup experience and how
I found my new job with Regis University as executive director of the John J.
Sullivan Endowed Chair for Free Enterprise." To be held at Panera Bread,
1330 Grant St., Denver. More info: SBCcBlog.com
For optional RSVP go to our Denver Small Business Chamber Facebook Group
or click on the link to the right for our meetup.com site. Of course, no RSVP is
every required, but it does help us plan.
This should be a very interesting meeting, hope you can join us if you are starting
in a new direction, and please email a link to this site to your friends who have
recently lost a job, had a bright idea, or for any other reason might find it helpful.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
I just posted this ad on Facebook, what do you think?
If you see it there, please DO NOT CLICK, since you
are already a member, we are charged for each click.
Curious about what happens for those who do click
on our Facebook ad? Hopefully, not you. :)
Those who click will be taken to this, so just click here:
Here's the copy from the Facebook ad:
Small Business Chamber of Commerce
Free help as you start a new career, a new
project or campaign, or a new business.
In exchange, you help with brainstorming.
How do you like the ad?
project or campaign, or a new business.
In exchange, you help with brainstorming.
How do you like the ad?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
PLEASE FORWARD to any of your friends who might like to join us.
Starting in a new direction with your work? Join us this Friday or any Friday for our Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop. No RSVP is necessary, walkins are welcome, but your RSVP on our Facebook Page or Meetup site guarantees you a seat at the brainstorming table.
Here's the release I just made to the media. Thanks to the Denver Business Journal, the Denver Daily News, the Denver Post, the Villager Newspaper, Westword, and all the other media outlets that help us get the word out to people who could use a boost at the end of the week. Here's the release I just made to them:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Here's the release I just made to the media. Thanks to the Denver Business Journal, the Denver Daily News, the Denver Post, the Villager Newspaper, Westword, and all the other media outlets that help us get the word out to people who could use a boost at the end of the week. Here's the release I just made to them:
June 7, 2011
Contact: John Wren cell (720)495-4949
New, Free Small Business Chamber Announces Startup Workshops.
Since 1994, free help for people starting a new career, project, campaign or new business.
DENVER—The Small Business Chamber of Commerce's free Denver IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. each Friday at Panera Bread, 13th and Grant in Denver. Speakers and brainstorming. For speaker this Friday and more information see http://www.sbccblog.com/ or http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber or call (303)861-1447.
Since 1994, the Denver IDEA Cafe has been helping people who are starting in a new direction by providing a free forum where successful people share their startup experience and then brainstorm specific questions or problems.
This Friday, June 10, Cowboy photographer Jim Keen, http://keenmedia.com/, "Startup with my cameras."
June 17, Mike Thompson http://www.thefathershowrp.org/ on "How I started my nonprofit for fathers."
June 24, Karl Dakin http://www.karldakin.com/ "My startup experience and how I found my new job with Regis University as executive director of the John J. Sullivan Endowed Chair for Free Enterprise."
IDEA is an acronym for: I= Inspiration or Identify the Problem; D= Develop Alternatives; E= Evaluate the Alternatives; and A= take Action. The meeting is free and open to anyone who is starting a new career, a new campaign or project, or a new business.
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John S. Wren, MBA+ http://www.JohnWren.com or http://Facebook.com/John.S.Wren is the founder of the new, free Small Business Chamber of Commerce http://sbccblog.com/ or http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber Contact Wren at (303)861-1447 or JohnSWren@aol.com.
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