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 

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

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

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

Startup Show

Candidate Endorsements

I'm the registered agent for Save the Caucus click

We will be posting endorsements this afternoon (Sunday) at 3 p.m.

John S Wren
Save the Caucus
www.COCaucus.org
(303)861-1447

Colorado's best networking opportunity.

Every two years neighbors gather across Colorado in 6000 or so small meetings to nominate to the primary election ballot. It's the best chance the common person to get his or her voice heard and to make a real difference. That's why so many of the rich and powerful hate the system.  Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/Colorado.Caucus.News/posts/10152822579832241

Starting a business in Colorado? Free online help from Colorado.

Online tutorial from the Colorado Secretary of State's Office, Starting a Business in Colorado. 
Use the Secretary of State's website to check and make sure the name you have chosen is not already in use.  To do this, go to the Business Database.  The tutorial also includes a link to this database. 

Colorado primary election

Low turn out was astonishing. Denver had less than 10 % of registered voters cast a ballot, disgraceful. That's 10% of registered voters and most aren't registered.


Big opportunity of the county political party that starts aggressively reaching out now in anticipation of the 2016 Colorado Caucus.


GOP Governor's race was bound to be a surprise, no matter what happened. See my comments, posted at bottom of this Denver Post editorial that's worth reading, too:  http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_26027687/second-chance-bob-beauprez 


President Eisenhower told us that in our system of government politics must be the part-time occupation of every citizen.


Let's all promise to do just a little bit more in our part-time job between now and the Colorado Caucus of 2016. You can start right now just by taking a couple of minutes to read the above editorial, reading my comment there, and then letting me know what you think, and more importantly what you are going to DO.

Me? What am I going to DO? I'm going to start by renewing my subscription to the Denver Post.


Post your comment here, or call me. (303)861-1447.


Life is short, but it's only too late if we don't start now!

Release: : Mass Flourishing Point of Plan.

From:  Small Business Chamber 

            of Commerce, Inc.

            960 Grant St. #727, Denver, CO 80203

            www.SmallBizChamber.org 

             (303)861-1447

Contact:  John Wren 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Friday, December 20, 2013

MASS FLOURISHING IN COLORADO AND BEYOND POINT OF DYNAMIC PLAN.

Group to start study groups using Edmund Phelps’s new book. Mass Flourishing and James Martin’s Jesuit Guide.

Denver— At an IDEA Salon today, longtime community activist and adult educator John S Wren announced the preliminary 2014 plans for the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc, a Colorado non-profit. Everyone is invited to comment on the dynamic plans at the free IDEA Salon open discussion meeting, each Friday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Panera Bread, 13^th & Grant, Denver. Free. For more see http://www.SmallBizChamber.org or call (303)861-1447

“Since 1727 our mission is to strengthen the grassroots in business and politics through adult education,” said Wren. “When people ask me who is our other co-founder, I tell them it’s Ben Franklin. He founded the first startup group in America, he called it the Junto.”

“We’ve now joined the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry and will be reaching out to the 70 or so local chambers in Colorado who are members of it and others, helping where we can to provide more real help to startups and small businesses, and helping to educate everyone in the community about the realities of the new economy, the return to the vitalism and dynamism that Nobel economist Edmund Phelps talks about in his new book Mass Flourishing, in light of James Martin’s Jesuit Guide, thinking in line with my Daring Mighty Things—The Simplest Way to Start Your First (or Next) New Business, and with what Ben Franklin advocated.

“To promote the study groups, next week we’ll announce a contest we believe will result in more media interest in the Colorado Caucus, the best chance for the common person to serve in elected public office, than we’ve seen in the past. More informed participation from those who are new to Colorado or just new to Colorado politics in our unique, wonderful neighborhood system for nominating to the primary ballot is needed if the grassroots is really going to be restored.”

Wren www.JohnWren.com (303)861-1447  attended Denver Thomas Jefferson High School, Cornell College, the University of Denver (BA’69, MBA’80) and Regis University where he studied adult learning with an education grant from Charles Schwab. He has been trained as a Great Books Discussion leader, and he is one of the founders of Denver Socrates Café, the IDEA Café Startup Workshop, Franklin Circles, and the Jesuit Guide Faith Sharing Groups. He is the co-founder & CEO of the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc. whose purpose is to help people create a Good Living—a useful and necessary product or service, an adequate income, and personal growth. Edmund Phelps, Mass Flourishing, Princeton University Press, 2013.  James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, HarperCollins, 2010. John Wren, Daring Might Things, Creative Space, 1994.

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Help to strengthen the grassroots.

For years I've had an interest in the Colorado caucus-assembly system for nominating to the primary ballot, in my opinion the best chance the common person has for serving in elected public office. See http://www.COCaucus.org 

Here's a new idea. Let's created a new business, doing well by doing good, with grassroots civic education and a Welcome Wagon type neighborhood marketing network. 

Let's write a handbook for Colorado citizens, update every year, sell to newcomers through a network of neighborhood representatives who will welcome newcomers and be the hub for neighborhood communications.

The citizen handbook will cover the caucus system, referendum , recall and initiatives, as well as how to get elected to public office. 

If you'd be interested in being part of this project as a sponsor, neighborhood representative, writer, or advertiser, contact me via John@JohnWren.com or (303)861-1447 see http://Facebook.com/goodNeighborsWeVote PLEASE SHARE 

Hate?

Take a look at our Facebook Page http://Facebook.com/WeVoteOrWeRecall Lots of info on civil unions, the gay marriage in sheep skins that's being rammed through the Colorado legislature. We say, let the people vote.

Our new Colorado Political Committee to fight SB11 and Civil Unions being ignored by media

But a reporter for CNS did Tweet this: @kevinjjones: Tireless community organizer @JohnSWren was at anti-#civilunions rally yesterday spreading word about his site http://t.co/B1dvBwPy

Article in Denver Catholic Register to follow? I'll let you know if they call.

Jesus criticized the lukewarm, but that's exactly where the Catholic Church is in Colorado with it's lobbying efforts. The Colorado Catholic Conference Facebook Page that had been up for a long, long time had less than 140 "Likes", maybe it's time for the office to be shut down and the staff sent on retreat. When your tank is disabled and blocking a bridge, sometimes it has to be shoved into the river.

What really irritates me is that now they don't even allow posts on their Facebook Page. Big waste of time and money. I think a case could be made that civil unions wouldn't be about to pass in Colorado if the Colorado Catholic Conference had just stayed clear out of the elections last fall.

Hickenlooper and Denver in news

See Twitter.com #J-Hic re Denver drops from #3 to #24 in 2nd edition of Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class rankings of most creative cities.

Has #J-Hic been watching The Good Wife?(politician's wife main character, they separated, he went to jail, she's now helping him run for Governor.) NYT article says he claims his wife offered to not leave him if he ran for US President. Does that mean she will come back if he runs against Hillary Clinton in 2016?

This should be no surprise. (Also Tweeted link) #J-Hic and mental health in news.