St. Stephen a Success?

Perfect icon for me today, St. Stephen who was stoned to death as St. Paul watched.

Somewhere Shakespeare tells us in one of his plays (Hamlet?) to "count no man happy until he is dead." I've had times where things were going well, everyone seemed to be for whatever it was I was doing. Not like that right now.

More on Startup Show in just a few minutes, on each day Monday thru Saturday if you "Visit Group" on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us now while it's still free.

Family and Economics

What would have happened if George Washington had a family emergency the day before Christmas?

Startup Show cancelled today because of (another) family emergency. More later...

New way to celebrate Christmas?

George Washington led an attack on the British across the Potomac River, the victory of the pre-dawn surprise attack through the dark was the turning point of the American Revolution,  on Christmas Morning. What lesson does that teach us for our Christmas morning tomorrow?

That’s the topic this morning on Startup Show, live at 10 Denver Time, click “Visit Group” button on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber, click right now and join if you haven’t already, the Startup Show is one of many benefits of SBCC Club membership. 

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GET IN THE BOAT! FOR MORE CHECK OUT www.SmallBizChamber.org 

  Life’s Short, Start Now!

Recover (Root & Branch) 

Mondays, 1:30 p.m.

1311 York St. 3rd Floor, Denver

Open Discussion

12 Steps & Meditation

Imagine (IDEA Cafe)

We share experience and brainstorm to help make this your start startup weekend. 

Each Friday 2:30 to 4 pm

The Commons on Champa, Denver

or by arrangement, see

www.Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber

 Think (Socrates Cafe)

Informal dialogue on a topic

chosen at start of each meeting.

Each Saturday, 6:30 to 8 p.m..

For other Socrates Cafe meetings, and help to start a new one  see:

www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society

Learn (Faculty Club)

Organizers and leaders of our Adult (True)Self-Directed Learning Groups.

Each Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Pete’s Cafe, Evans & University, Denver

www.Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles 

Visit a meeting here in Denver, or ask us to held one as part of your event. 

Small Business 

Chamber of Commerce, Inc

1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, 

Denver, CO 80210

www.SmallBizChamber.org

Meetup/Small-Biz-Chamber

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Twitter @IDEACafe

Startup Show, Monday thru Saturday, 

10 a.m. Denver 9 Pacific, Noon ET..

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: Here's a great American story that should become a...

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: Here's a great American story that should become a...: Here's a great American story that should become a book. M.E. Sprengelmeyer did a great job covering the Iowa Caucus back in his Rocky Mountain News days.

My little book on startup:

New to recovery? Open to spiritual way of living?

Each Monday, 1:30 p.m., 1311 York St. 3rd Floor, Denver.

What I learned from George H.W. Bush

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: What I learned from George H.W. Bush: I personally met with George H. W. Bush​, I'll share the effect it had on my life on Startup Show, today (Thur, 12-6),10 a.m. MT, 9 ... What do you think?

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Share your startup story?

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Share your startup story?: 1) I'm looking for startup stories to include in next edition of Daring Mighty Things, see the submission requirements tab above. ... What do you think?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me? reveals a new side of Melissa McCarthy: www.https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/can-you-ever-forgive-me-review-melissa-mccarthy-movie.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru via @slate

Stephen Kotkin on “Trump and Putin? What in the World Is Up?”

Very interesting discussion of Stalin and of populism.

Happy birthday to my daughter Allie! God bless+++

How to build community.

How would have you, or how did you, vote in 1968?
You comment here or on Twitter (click below) very welcome.

I'll talk about this on the Startup Show today. Join us!
www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber "Visit Group."

Why speak out?

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

                         --- Martin Niemöller

Want help? Call, appointments only.

What do you think?

Join us for Socrates Cafe, it's free and everyone is welcome.

We choose a topic, share our thoughts, ask each other questions, it's a lot of fun and I personally think it's a good way to practice listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.

More info and optional rsvp (walk-ins are always welcome) at www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society check it out!

PLEASE share this with your social media friends. You never know who might really like to know about tonight's meeting. If they appreciate your sharing they will thank you and so will I if you'll let me know what you've done.

How may I help you?

John

John S. Wren, MBA+
Founder and President,
Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
IDEA Cafes*Socrates Cafes*Franklin Circles
www.SmallBizChamber.org 

SBCC Startup Method-- the Practices of: Recover, Imagine, Think, Learn; to Start, Grow, Flourish. Socrates Cafe Society is another project of the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.

On this day, 1953

This is University Park Elementary School, I went to the 3rd grade on the 2nd floor. Not shown is the addition that had been built on and that survives today, this building is gone. Wooden floors, real black boards, a regulator clock.My first day was October 31, 1953, 65 years ago today.

This is the house mom and dad built, my bedroom was the dorm window in the middle of the house. 2305 S. Jackson St.

When we moved to Loveland Colorado in 1949 this was a house we rented. Some of my earliest memories.

                   

         

Accept what?

Today on the Startup Show: Imagine: is it enough? Live at 10 a.m. MDT, anytime by recording, on https://www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber "Visit Group" and join if you haven't already, members only.

Startup Show Mentions Today.

Below are items that were mentioned on today's Startup Show, which you can still see if you "Visit Group" on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us. I suggest you check it out first or these cryptic notes may not mean much to you.

The Startup Show is looking for sponsors, call me if you might be interested. (303)861-1447 For now I'm the only source of money for what we are doing, it's been a decades long labor of love. More about my alt-ego, the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc at www.SmallBizChamber.org

Also see www.Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber and www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society for more information about the free meetings here in Denver. 5280 Magazine has said they have "infused Denver with an entrepreneurial spirit," and I'd like to help you and your local chamber do the same thing.

A new group we are trying is the Speakers Corner Dialogue Group, it's each Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m., next week we hear from one of the statewide candidates, join us if you can! www.Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles where you'll also info about our two Faculty Club meetings.

This is the issue I mentioned on the startup show today as a way to meet new people. Check it out:

TAX PLAN ENDORSED BY MILTON FRIEDMAN: Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 Edition (Illustrated) by Henry George.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BXJONIM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4ncWBbE84J3XS via @amazon

Startup Show is live each morning at 10 a.m. MDT, by recording anytime (now) just "Join Group" on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us (it's free) if you haven't already. WILL YOU BE OUR AMBASSADOR TO YOUR LOCAL CHAMBER AND LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER? www.SmallBizChamber.org

Jordan Peterson is wrong about goal setting.

Peterson prescribes goal setting as a key ingredient in a happy, successful life. He is wrong.

Repeated studies show there is just no correlation between having written goals and success in any way you want to measure it.

Check out this foudational Harvard study of the question: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/09-083.pdf

Why do we hear so much about goal setting? Because it's a good seller in book stores, talks on the lecture circuit, and in consulting.

What do successful people do instead? My experience and education has taught me they practice the same recover, imagine, think, learn skills of the successful startup.

Won't you be my neighbor?

On the Startup Show today: Is Jordan Peterson our new Mr. Rogers?

New book is out about Fred Rogers and there was a recent documentary. Tom Hanks is playing Mr. Rogers in a new docu-drama about the very popular public TV show of his.

What I've suddenly realized is the young men who are so attracted to Jordan Peterson are the ones who grewup with Mr. Rogers instead of a father.

I'll talk about this more on today's Startup Show, live at 10 a.m. MDT, 9 Pacific, noon Eastern today and each morning Monday thru Friday, "Visit Group" on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us (it's free) if you haven't already.

SOLD OUT IN DENVER!

Jordan Peterson at Paramount Theatre here in Denver last night. Amazing. I didn’t see one ad. He’s as popular as the Cable Guy who I saw with my son, sold out with no Denver advertising. Stop to think about it, Peterson and the Cable Guy have pretty much the same message, “let’s git er done” 

Philosophy for CEOs, Startups and Serial Killers.

Socrates Cafe this evening at the University of Denver was excellent. Topic was Jung's idea that if we don't deal with the unconcious mind, we will never escape the shadow side of life.

Serial Killers? We may start including that in the title of the group, which is now "Socrates Cafe: Philosophy for CEOs, Startups, and Other Pioneers." Why the change?

Check out Netflix "MindHunters" if you haven't seen it already and you will understand. True story of FBI agents profiling serial killers who are joined by a psychologist who reads some of their interviews and realizes they fit the profile of the group she studies, CEOs. Really.

Join Julie Monday evening for the new Socrates Cafe near the Tech Center in the Castlewood Library, I'll be at the Englewood Library Tuesday evening, check them and others out at www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

Jordan Peterson is here in Denver tomorrow. Amazingly it is not sold out as is the usual case at all his talks, and I've not seen any advertising. I just Tweeted President Trump, suggested he join Peterson on the stage tomorrow. We'll see.

I'll post my reaction to what Peterson shares tomorrow right here and on the Startup Show. Have a blessed Sunday. +++

RIP Sally

One of the kindest, most caring people I've ever met. God bless Sally.
Memorial service at Hudson Gardens this morning, I just couldn't do it.
I'd changed an appointment to make time, but just too sad.

We need return to what built this country, vitalism & dynamism.

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: We need return to what built this country, vitalis...: We need return to what built this country, vitalism and dynamism. How can we best bring about the return. First, take a look at this short ...

Amar Bhide: In Defense of Human Judgment

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: Amar Bhide: In Defense of Human Judgment: Get rid of old mistaken ideas "root & branch," would be for the best, and an examination of why it does not happen in moder...

Don't start alone!

What ever you want to start, here's help. Join now, while it's still free:

Small Business Chamber of Commerce Facebook Club Facebook Group · 878 members Join Group Our purpose: to strengthen the grassroots! (NOTICE: Posts do not mean endorsement by John Wren, SBCC, or by the member here who posted it. We only po...

Coffee & Clausewitz: Peer Learning Groups

Milton Friedman Speaks - Is Capitalism Humane?

Why we should all be capitalists...

Capitalism vs Socialism

Make this your startup weekend!

You can make this weekend or next your startup weekend!

Small Business Chamber of Commerce Facebook Club Facebook Group · 804 members Join Group Our purpose: to strengthen the grassroots! (NOTICE: Posts do not mean endorsement by John Wren, SBCC, or by the member here who posted it. We only po...

New! Starts today! Speakers Corner Online.

For several months I've been experimenting with a way to recreate the Hyde Park London Speakers Corner Online, now here it is!

We'll be having our first session in just 30 minutes at Perkins, Buchtel Blvd (just South of I25) and Colorado Blvd. Join us! We plan on being there each Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Once we've built an audience we may move back to Denver Civic Center Park again.

If you'd prefer post a video selfie, or schedule a time for us to bring our video crew to you. You can do  both now on https://www.facebook.com/SBCCSpeakersCorner/ check it out!

Question: Phone calls dead?

Do you agree phone calls are dead?

WrenCollege.org is the SBCC educational division.: Startup Show

WrenCollege.org is the SBCC educational division.: Startup Show: Starting in a new direction with your work? Want to start a new career? A new project or campaign? Or a new business? Check out the Startu...

JORDAN PETERSON: HEATED INTERVIEW W/ ANOTHER LEFTIST HOST

Won't you be my neighbor?

Today (Fri, 7/29) at 10 a.m. Denver time, 9 Pacific, noon Eastern (or any time after that by recording) we will talk about Mr. Rogers on the SBCC Startup Show. Join us by "Visit Group" button on the SBCC Facebook Page (click here now.)

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Startup Show: Think!

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Startup Show: Think!: Today's topic on the Startup Show: Think! Starting today only members of our SBCC Facebook Club will be able to see the Startup Show. Yo...

What do you think?

What do you really want? What help do you need now?

De-Polarize!

A Trump Supporter and a Black Lives Matter Activist Discuss Policing and Racial Justice by Better Angels Media via #soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/betterangelsmedia/a-trump-supporter-and-a-black-lives-matter-activist-discuss-policing-and-racial-justice?

I'll talk more about www.Better-Angels.org today on the Startup Show, live each day Monday thru Friday on our www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber (click)

Come teach for us? You are invited to join our Faculty Club for lunch at 11:30 a.m. today and each Thursday at Pete's University Park Cafe. More info and rsvp at www.Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles

Recover and Flourish!

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Recover and Flourish!:


INVITATION: Join us today or any Monday afternoon for open discussion, we share Root & Branch, our problems and our experience with the 12-steps, meditation, and recovery. Free and open to everyone. In Denver a few friends (you today or next week?) each Monday afternoon, 1:30 p.m. at 1311 York Street, 3rd floor. If you have any questions call John (303)861-1447

Last call...

This is the last day for my Facebook Page 2-Way Prayer. I'll tell you why today and how I'm going to pass it on if you the Startup Show, live video at 10 a.m. MDT on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber  

Colorado Gov Attends Meeting in Italy.

 A diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media is invited each year to a world conference, this year Gov. Hickenlooper was invited and he attended. The list of participants is available on www.bilderbergmeetings.org.

The key topics for discussion this year included:

1. Populism in Europe
2. The inequality challenge
3. The future of work
4. Artificial intelligence
5. The US before midterms
6. Free trade
7. US world leadership
8. Russia
9. Quantum computing
10. Saudi Arabia and Iran
11. The “post-truth” world

Possible topics for a Socrates Cafe (click here)

Confronting Evil

Dr. Bud Harris: "Evil is a call, perhaps a demand from life, for us to develop a more profound sense of self-knowledge and consciousness. It may help us to recall Jung in an interview when he passionately says,

"The world hangs by a slender thread and

that thread is the consciousness of man.

WE are the great danger.

What if something goes wrong with the psyche?

But we know nothing about it and it seems

that if we are well fed and clothed we have

little urge to learn about ourselves and that

is our greatest mistake of all."

...Each time we integrate part of our shadow we reduce the evil in the world but when we fail to do this, to

Book Reading and Discussion: "Cracking Open"

Red Zone Playbook:

Aging Strong: Presentation at Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville, N.C. https://t.co/CiZg8e7bea via @YouTube

— John S Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) July 1, 2018

Climate Change Controversy on Colorado Board of Education.

6/14/2018 Oakland, Ca.--The Colorado state board of education voted to adopt a new set of state science standards on June 13, 2018, despite opposition from members of the board who "disliked the way the standards treated climate change as a real phenomenon," according to Chalkbeat (June 14, 2018).

Based in part on the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education, on which the Next Generation Science Standards are also based, the new standards (PDF) recognize, at both the middle school and the high school level, the impact of human activities on the global climate system.

In contrast, the previous standards were "pretty wishy-washy" on climate change, as NCSE's Glenn Branch told the Aurora Sentinel in 2017. By way of example, he cited the inclusion of the word "might" in a standard reading, "Human actions such as burning fossil fuels might impact Earth's climate."

The new standards received "overwhelming support ... from science teachers" in Colorado, according to Chalkbeat. Voting to accept the new standards were Val Flores, Jane Goff, Rebecca McClellan, and Angelika Schroeder; voting against were Steve Durham, Joyce Rankin, and Debora Scheffel.

National Center for Science Education

New Adult self-directed learning group forming now. Join us!

I'm starting a new adult self-directed learning group, it will be focused on practical local politics or science if I can find a good leader who knows and enjoys the subject here in metro-Denver If you're interested fill out the leader/learner application at https://t.co/iigk05nYZM Thanks! John Wren (303)861-1447 https://t.co/x37agL9pvZ

— John S Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) June 27, 2018

Jordan Peterson in 2009

What is real?

Topic for Socrates Cafe?

I'm going to suggest this as a topic for Socrates Cafe at DU this evening, Saturday, June 23. Free and open to everyone, join us! For more info and optional rsvp see www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society

Entreprenurs & Mental Health

Five Factor Model on UnderstandMyself.com

Jutno: Club Of Entreprenuers Driven By Benjamin Franklin's Principles

Ben Franklin's Junto

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Imagine! Today on the Startup Show.

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: Imagine! Today on the Startup Show.

What do you think?

Conversation with Niall Ferguson: Can we understand the basis of culture?

Radical Help | Hilary Cottam | RSA Replay

We'll talk about this video at Faculty Club luncheon, tomorrow (Thur, 6-14) at 11:30 p.m. at Pete's University Park Cafe. More info and rsvp at http://Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles Join us!

Why start or join a club?

DRAFT 6/6/18

Designed to Un-Polarize

Club is an English civil war neologism. It was a term with strong overtones... which are entirely lost today since we use the term casually for all kinds of societies and associations of like minded individuals for a purpose…'club-men' were those who deliberately suppressed political differences, in order to combine and protect their interests against all comers... 'Clubbing together' in self-defense. Lisa Jardine, "On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren," 2002 HarperCollins, New York, p 112 

We are working to bring back this type of club, updated for the 21st Century by way of Ben Franklin, Malcolm Knowles and Sugatra Mitra. Will you join us? 

Sir Christopher? Not even James Wren.

I've decided not to renew my subscription with Ancestory.com. After spending way too much time and money, this is what I now know about my dad's geneology:

Relationship between Joseph Wren & John Thomas Wren

From My Ancestory.com family tree (click here to see it)

Joseph Wren (1794 - 1854) 

2nd great-grandfather 

John Edgar Wren (1840 - 1910) 

son of Joseph Wren 

Is the world getting better or worse?

Want to make this your startup week?

Do you want to start a new career? A new project or campaign? A new business? This life is short, start now! Here's how I can help you:

Take a short break each morning Monday thru Friday with me as I talk about startup, live at 10 a.m. MDT, 9 Pacific, noon Eastern or any time after via recording, both on my Facebook Page John S Wren MBA+ (click here.) Your Facebook Message to me there will be answered the same day during or after the live broadcast at 10.

Read my little book on startup Daring Mighty Things, the Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business. (click here)

Check out the free face-to-face meetings with me here in metro-Denver through my Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc (click here) and ask me about helping your local chamber start similar free meetings with our help (I'll help for free if you will, or we can split the net proceeds, call me for the details.)

Questions? Call me and leave a complete, confidential message for me, I'm the only one with the code to the voice mail box. Take as much time as you need, be sure you tell me what you are hoping I can do for you. Call now, 24/7, while it is on your mind. I'd hate us to miss this opportunity to work together. Call now (303)861-1447

If you post a message on my Facebook Page or send me a message from there, post a question during my live 10 a.m. broadcast, or leave a telephone message, I'll get back to you within 24 hours.

If you'd prefer to not leave a telephone message and would rather meet together attend on of the free SBCC meetings here in metro-Denver. For more see our SBCC Meetup site www.Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber 

John S Wren: This woman deserves our help!

John S Wren: This woman deserves our help!: When Saira Rao decided to run for Congress, she vowed she wouldn’t accept any political action committee donations.  Instead, she deci...

More talk, fewer starts.

Only recently has startup been seen as an important part of the US economy.

Do you love wisdom?

What's ahead for our SBCC:

Sick of politics as usual?!

5-2-18__When Saira Rao decided to run for Congress, she vowed she wouldn’t accept any political action committee donations.

Instead, she decided to raise money the old-fashioned way. She made a list of everyone she’s ever met. Then she added the names of people who knew her parents before she painstakingly contacted each one by phone, email or text. The effort was worth it.

In the first quarter of this year, she raised more money than DeGette. “The remarkable thing was they came,” Rao said. “They gave. They believe in this need for change, this hunger for change.”

The first challenge was getting on the primary ballot. Now, Rao wants to connect with all the voters in Colorado’s 1^st Congressional District. The district of nearly 1 million residents, which includes Denver, Glendale, Englewood, Sheridan and Cherry Hills Village, has 120,000 homes. Rao wants to be able to hire enough people to supplement her volunteer base to knock on all those doors.

Rao, who with a college friend launched In This Together Media, publishes books for young adults and children that feature black, brown, LGBTQ, and immigrant kids as central characters. Just as her company serves an audience who has been ignored, Rao wants to serve constituents who haven’t been heard.

“Some people say we need to take back our country, but people of color never thought we had the country, to begin with,” she said. “We need to take our country and make it equitable, socially, racially, economically.”

Rao chose to run for Congress because she thinks that’s where she can make the biggest difference. “I’m disappointed in our current leaders. They aren’t advocating for the disenfranchised. They are too beholden to corporate interests.”

Rao squares off against
DeGette on the
June 26 primary ballot. 

DeGette, was elected in 1997, and touts her experience in Congress and membership on powerful committees as reasons why voters should keep her in office. In her April speech to district delegates, DeGette said if Democrats retake the U.S. House, she will become chairwoman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee.

“I just have one thing to say: Imagine me with subpoena power,” she said, pledging to subpoena EPA chief Scott Pruitt, the Denver Post reported.

Although the district is considered safely Democratic, the primary winner faces Casper Stockham, who also challenged DeGette in 2016, in November.

If Rao is able to defeat DeGette, she hopes her campaign shows candidates don’t have to have big money to win. And if she wins, Rao promises she won’t become focused only on raising money for her next race. Her goal is to listen to her constituents first.

Then she'll fight to secure federal housing and transit money and search for better ways than prison to rehabilitate criminals.

Rao said it’s time for American voters to stop electing the same people. Instead, voters should install a new Congress who isn’t beholden to corporate interests. “Voters should defeat anyone who takes PAC money,” she said. For more about Saira click here.

DU Online Networking.

The University of Denver has launched a new networking platform, Alumnifire, for alumni and students! This tool will allow our nearly 120,000 DU alumni to network with each other 

Alumnifire leverages the networking capabilities of LinkedIn and the robust job bank of Indeed.com. Using Alumnifire you can search for connections at your target companies, find jobs and internships, seek career advice, resume reviews, informational interviews, introductions and job shadowing.

To join Alumnifire, please click here: http://bit.ly/1NDIywq. You will be asked to create an account by entering your graduation date (or projected graduation date) and can then elect to sync Alumnifire with your LinkedIn account, or simply enter your email. Join today and get started on expanding your network!

Star in your own reality show!

SOCRATIC STARTUP-- HOW?

1st check us out online:

Watch Good Morning Grassroots
each morning Monday thru Thursday
at 10 a.m. Mountain, 9 Pacific.

Fridays Watch the Startup Show, same
time, 10 a.m. Mountain, 9 Pacific.

Both live or any time after via recording
on www.Facebook.com/JohnWrenMBA

Then make this weekend your startup weekend.

If you want, we will help you make your startup
into a reality show with you as the star.

What now? Watch the Startup Show (see above.)
Then join us for the IDEA Cafe here in Denver,
check it out www.Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber

Questions? Call me on (303)861-1447.
Emergency? First call 911, then my cell (720)495-4949

This life is short, start this weekend!

Effect of Feminism on Feminine and Masculine

A message for the gun control protestors:

MUST READ! PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING STORY: "A Most American Terrorist: The Making Of Dylann Roof" https://t.co/bhWwxsJNVr #NRA #COPolitics

— John Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) April 16, 2018

1970: When demagogue became populist.

Today's Good Morning Grassroots! Comments?

Bob Wilson TJ '65

 Topic for Good Morning Grassroots 3/16 at 10 a.m.

Bob Wilson was our quarterback at Denver Thomas Jefferson High School, his new book was just published:

https://t.co/g5TfGK3pREhttps://t.co/6H1QYN5Kzjhttps://t.co/M5JF087Vfm

(search Ripple Effect Bob Wilson)https://t.co/MwPMPO7qeO pic.twitter.com/74gyRvMJAv

— Bob Wilson (@A_RippleEffect) March 8, 2018

I'll talk about it tomorrow on Good Morning Grassroots, 10 a.m. MDT, 9 Pacific, live on Facebook/John.S.Wren Join us?

Good Morning Grassroots at 10 am MT, 9 Pacific.

Good Morning Grassroots (click here.) You can listen live then or listen by recording any time after we stop about 10:10. To be on the show call me at (303)861-1447.

As promised just now on Linked In --are you and I Linked In? (click)-- I'll be talking about the meditation for today (Thur, 3/8) on Pray as You Go (click) and the coincidence of finding this book again this morning, haven't read it in years. See photo to right here on this page, or see it on Twitter (click.)

Wren College in DU Magazine.

Nice mention about new https://t.co/iigk05nYZM in current edition of @DU_Alumni magazine pic.twitter.com/Fc3f8wwPoN

— John Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) February 8, 2018

Will you welcome newcomers to your neighborhood?: John S Wren: No snitching— Part 1.

Will you welcome newcomers to your neighborhood?: John S Wren: No snitching— Part 1.: John S Wren: No snitching— Part 1. : “Mind your own business, work with your own hands.” 1Thessalonians 4:11 KJV Part 1.  Tuesday (9-5), Par...

Calling All Colorado Citizen Journalists:

Will You Tweet From Our March 6 Caucus With These 3 Hashtags:

#COCaucus, #(My County’s Twitter Address), #(COGOP or CODems plus Precinct Number.) 

If so, post comment on www.COCaucus.org, then share this with your friends!

We will talk about "grassroots" Saturday:
Socrates Cafe @ University of Denver
Join us! www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society

Want to bounce? Join us this afternoon or next Monday?

1:30 pm each Monday here in Denver. Free.

Join us here to watch game?

How are you enjoying this #SuperBowlSunday?  Are you cheering #GoPats  in the #SuperBowl  or are you rooting for the #Eagles ?  Kickoff time for #SB52  is 6:30 p.m. MST Where are you watching? Join us here, pizza at half-time. John Wren

Small Business Chamber Now on Google Maps.

How are you enjoying this #SuperBowlSunday?  Are you cheering #GoPats  in the #SuperBowl  or are you rooting for the #Eagles ?  Kickoff time for #SB52  is 4:30 MST p.m.  where are you watching the game? Join us, we’re going to order pizza for whoever is here for kick-off. We’re right by RTD University Station, and parking on east side of building. Join us? John Wren 720-495-4949

Self-directed learning in Army Leadership Development.

Photo: "Alternative Advertising: Re-Cycle."

"Alternative Advertising--Re-Cycle." Wren, 1/24/18 California just NE 16th Street Mall, Denver.

Question: what caused the December 2011 spike of interest in the Internet (blue line)?

Interest in Internet, Apple, Google via Google Search

Discussion, debate, dialogue usage trends.

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: 7/16/13 IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop Sponsored by Sm...

Start Now! SBCC Startup Method.: 7/16/13 IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop Sponsored by Sm...

The Good Man:

Good Morning Grassroots! with John Wren

Starts today! For details see Facebook.com/John.S.Wren

What if we took Martin Luther King's words seriously today?

Friends,

I just asked this question here on Facebook and I'd be very interested in your answer: what if we took some of the words of Martin Luther King seriously today? What would we do?

Pro-life Rally, Women's March, and What Divides Us.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

My last post here, one post back, was about my big idea with the Colorado Caucus. It produced no comments. There were readers, or at least visitors to the page. But no comments. Maybe everyone was just bowled over, awe struck with the brilliance of my simple idea.

The Colorado Caucus: a proposal to save it from John Wren.

I've posted thing of interest and made comments here on www.JohnWren.com for a long time.
As always you are welcome to use it as "content" if you are desperate enough to do so.
Attribution to www.JohnWren.com is not required but appreciated. Questions? Call me (720)495-4949

Thinking career rather than startup.

It was not until the 1960s that the startup fad began.

Startup has never been written about as much as careers.
And the more talk about startup the fewer startups.

Startup Show at noon today!

Join us via link right here at noon for the Startup Show.
Link will be posted right here just before noon.

If there is a technical problem and it's not possible to post a link:

Check our www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber
Twitter @IDEACafe

Or see the Small Business Chamber site
www.SmallBizChamber.org

Join us this evening or tomorrow or next Tuesday for
Socrates Cafe see www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society

Today on the startup show: self-directed learning as a tool for
doing well while doing good. To be a guest on the Startup Show
call me to schedule a date and time for my interview with you.
Call over the weekend or Monday (720)495-4949

Probate Courts

I'm forming a community of practice to dialogue about the probate process. Two brothers I know well have been drawn into a ridiculous legal battle that has  resulted in each of them paying lawyers some $250,000 I'm told. My brother Randy dying without a will has resulted in a similar situation that has the potential of the same sort of thing, a concern that is not at all frivolous or trivial. Others have shared their probate court nightmares with me.

I'm calling the University of Denver law school and a couple of academic departments to find students who might be interested. I will bring this up as a topic at our Socrates Cafe at the University of Denver tomorrow (Saturday, 1-6) which is free and open to everyone, you reading this now would be welcome to join us. For the last couple of years we've been meeting in Anderson Academic Commons (was Penrose Library), more info about it and other metro-Denver Socrates Cafes at www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society  

Pot and politics.

What do you think? Is pot ok? My views here later.

I'll be suggesting a related topic at Socrates Cafe in LoDo this evening: how do we individually and as a society make decisions regarding what's healthy and what is not healthy. Have health concerns and fitness centers become our religion? If so, what is the accepted dogma?

Usually a good discussion, 6 p.m. at Panera Bread LoDo, more at www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society about this evening (Fri, 1-5) and our other metro-Denver Socrates Cafes. Join us!

New! Free! Better Online Franklin Circle.

A new Better Online Franklin Circle (click here) is now forming. Join Better, the new app, by clicking to the left, if you like it join (it's free) and check out our new Better Online Franklin Circle and consider co-leading or joining!

Want free help? See my new offer on Linked In Profile (click here).

The SBCC (Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc click here) Join us! We offer real help from real people to business owners, entrepreneurs,  consultants, accountants, and lawyers who want to find their first or  next great customer.

The SBCC Method is comprised of  7 Practices: Recover, Imagine, Think, Learn; to Start, Grow, and Flourish. 

Contact me if you want to start a new hyper-local SBCC branch office in your neighborhood to help your neighbors start new careers, new projects or campaigns, and new businesses.

The first step towards opening a new branch office is for you to take an hour or so and read my little book Daring Mighty Things, available to down load right now on Amazon (click here.)

Then attend a free meeting in Denver, and if you like it we will give you free help to start a SBCC group in cooperation with your local community newspaper, local bank, association and service club or other group offering a free monthly IDEA Cafe (Imagine); free Socrates Cafe (Think); and Franklin Circles (Learn.) 

More info and optional rsvp (walk-ins welcome) at https://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber (click here) 

If you have questions call me right now while it's on your mind. Leave a complete confidential message, I'll have a volunteer get back to you ASAP. Call now, I'd hate for us to miss this opportunity to work together.  (720)495-4949