Now broadcast each week on Mile Hi Radio, mark your calendar now. Mondays 5 to 6 p.m. Mountain on www.MileHiRadio.com, for more information now click:http://Facebook.com/SmallBizStartup   Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc., We create a Good Living* as we help others do the same.

Free Online Speakers. This is great! Take a look.

Great, free videos of University of Denver's Voices of Experience speakers,
including these CEO's:

*Howard Schultz, Starbucks
*Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines
*John Mackey, Whole Foods
*Michael Long, Arrow (my favorite)

Also DU's Cory Ciocchetti.

Take a look! Which is your favorite? (click here)

Starting? Want help?

Call The Startup Line. A volunteer will help you clarify what you want to do and what steps you can take today to just start! Call 303-861-1447. Also call if you are a CPA, consultant, or retired business owner who might like to volunteer to help. Please share! Thanks!

• Free IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop

  
  

  Friday, May 31, 2013

  2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• TONY'S MARKET & BISTRO

  950 BROADWAY, DENVER, CO (edit map)

  Just south of downtown Denver. Free parking in parking lot on south side of building.
• Get help to start in a new direction.

  We invite a couple of experienced business owners to share startup experience and we brainstorm.

  Join us when you aren't sure what you are going to do Monday morning. Life's too short for any of us to learn from just our own experience!
  
  Walk-ins welcome, we'll save a seat for you until the start of the meeting if you  RSVP where you'll also see a list of other upcoming IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops, and you'll get notices of future meetings.

We are trying something new...

We are opening up our Meetup.com site. If you want to start an IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, go right ahead and list it, see http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber

We'll talk about how this will work and why we are doing it on our free online IDEA Cafe Startup Google+ Hangout Tuesday at 4 p.m. Mountain. To reserve a seat around the video roundtable, RSVP on http://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber and we'll email you a link. If you just want to watch, come back here to this site for a link or search for it on Google+ or YouTube.com where it will be broadcast and that you'll be able to watch on demand after the live broadcast.

To participate, you need to be on Google+. See https://plus.google.com/u/0/

John Wren in the Wall Street Journal

A big part of the problem (with startup today) is all the energy put into academic wantrapreneurship classes and the wantrapreneurship seminars sponsored by the various off shoots of the Small Business Administration. Amar Bhide in 1994 wrote The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, a summary of personal interviews with founders of successful businesses, he found they, with rare exceptions, they just don’t start with market research and formal planning. Saras Sarasvarthy research has more recently found the same thing.

What would help? First, adoption of the book published last spring by Harvard Business Review Press,

The Startup Show, sponsored by your Small Business Chamber of Commerce, is on each Monday, 5 to 6 p.m. MST. Originates from the Five Points Media Center in Denver, Colorado, call in with your questions or announcements from anywhere in the world. More about the show on our Facebook Page, http://Facebook.com/SmallBizStartup