New! I work exclusively for members of Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.

John S Wren, Founder, President, and CEO.

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.

+Education to Strengthen the Grassroots+

1881 Buchtel Blvd, #501, Denver, CO 80210

www.SmallBizChamber.org  T @IDEACafe 

14th Annual Ben Franklin/ Martin Luther King 

Birthday Party/Annual Meeting, Monday after 1/17.

2020 Membership is free, join to generate publicity for the work you do:

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4) Most important: call, tell me what you've done and how I may help you. 

I'll get back with you, it may not be right away but I will call 24/7 (303)861-1447. 

eFranklin Circle M-F at noon Denver, Starts Monday, 7-6-2020

Join us for first eFranklin Circle Monday, to be on the show as a guest we promote on Facebook call me (303)861-1447

Startup advice from 1st Christian:

"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it... the gate is narrow and the road is hard." Jesus quoted in the book of Matthew, Chapter 7, in beautiful meditation by UK Jesuits: https://t.co/paw5PkOtAP

— John Scott Wren (@JohnSWren) June 23, 2020

The value of history:

Startups Try Harder.

I wrote this as a staff member of the' 65 Denver Thomas Jefferson High School yearbook, 5 years before Robert Townsend wrote the best selling "Up the Organization" about learning in 2nd place. "We try harder" is how CEO Townsend put it in the headlines of the ads for his #2 Avis (Hertz was #1 in market share.)

But throws fall short,

And scores come too late,

All teams can't finish first.

Learning is second place.

From TJ Yearbook, thanks Classmates.com

For more about my thinking about startup see my "Daring Mighty Things." 

Starting in a new direction with your work?

Or do you want to start in a new direction?

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Media Advisory at 12 Noon

My media advisory will be posted here today and each Friday until the 2020 Presidential election.

How should we pray?

LORD'S PRAYER, THE:

By: Kaufmann Kohler

Table of Contents

• Original Form and Meaning.
• Relation to Messianic Expectation.

Name given by the Christian world to the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. vi. 9-13; Luke xi. 1-4). According to Luke the teaching of the prayer was suggested by one of Jesus' disciples who, on seeing him holding communion with God in prayer, asked him to teach them also to pray, as John the Baptist had similarly taught his disciples a certain form of

Startup Weak or Strong?

Topic today on Startup Show, free Monday thru Friday, live by 10 a.m. To be a startup catalyst for your neighborhood where you live or work, become a member by clicking "Visit Group" on our Facebook Page and then doing a Facebook Watch Party with your Facebook friends. We will contact you with an invitation to be with us at an IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop. Check it out at https://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber Questions? call (303)861-1447

How to Do More Good Work: Love HP, Love Neighbor.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Want to be a Startup Catalyst for your local community? Join our IDEA Cafe Meetup Group, we will help you start an IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop with your local chamber, club, association, college, and community newspaper.

Join us now, while it's still free:

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New Practice Resources for Startups.

PRACTICE RESOURCES

(RECOVER) Social Gathering. Mondays at 1:30 p.m. Walk-ins only,“a time and place where new people might bring their problems… to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.” From  BB P. 159. This month at 1311 York St, 3rd Fl. Denver www.DACCAA.org

(THINK) Socrates Circle. We choose a topic, share our thoughts, ask each other questions. Saturdays, 6:30 p.m.University of

Cornell College's Val Green shares her startup story.

God, Country, Commerce.

This is why we are starting the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc to cooperate with local communities to help them do what 5280 Magazine says I've done here in Denver over the last 20 years, "John Wren... has infused Denver with an entrepreneurial spirit." I work to preserve the opportuity my father had to start a business for my grandkids.

More about this on Startup Show, today (Fri, 4-12) at 10 a.m. Denver time, noon Eastern, "Visit Group" on our Facebook Page www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us right now to be able to see it, it's free and fast! John Wren.

SBCC Startup Method-- Practices of: Recover, Imagine, Think, Learn; to Start, Grow, Flourish. OODA Loop. BE A STARTUP AMBASSADOR FOR YOUR LOCAL CHAMBER.

Who cares, red or blue?

Who cares the most about the grassroots, red or blue? Vote in straw poll, then share this with your friends:

Just posted on our SBCC Facebook Page (click here):

Who cares the most about the grassroots? Who will "Share" this new message the most, red or blue? Your red or blue share is your vote. See red and blue posts below and then please SHARE!
To be a guest on the Startup Show, share the daily red or blue question posted at the start of each show, see "Visit Group."

New interview with General Stanley McChrystal

PLEASE SHARE this very interesting interview with Gen. McChrystal, we will discuss it tomorrow (Fri, 2-8) on Startup Show, live at noon Eastern, 9 Pacific Time, tomorrow free and open to everyone. See Startup Show tomorrow, join us right now or any time via "Visit Group" blue button, on SBCC Facebook Page https://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

Where were you in 1992?

Reading about Julia Cameron in today's New York Times Style Section  it's worth reading. Her Artist's Way first printing sold out the first day when it was published in 1992, makes me think back to what I was doing then, and why I instantly disliked her and the book she rode in on.

In 1992 I was living with Fr. David Morgan's Center for Christ Centered Ministries with a room mate who eventually was killed bicycling through France. For years I'd held what came to be called the IDEA Association, and I intended to hold it there.

The IDEA Association grew out of a TV and radio show I had back then which I started just after Janet left me with 4 kids and a note

Want emergency help?

Recovery, getting back up, sometimes requires help. How do you find help? That's the topic today on Startup Club, click on "Visit Group" on www.Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and join us, it's free and fast.

My last bible study with Fr. Bruce.

Friday 4 January https://pray-as-you-go.org/player/prayer/2019-01-04 #Prayasyougo

Fr. Bruce Youngquist was an Episcopal priest who was ordained at Christ Church in Denver when Fr. David Wilson was the pastor.

Fr. Bruce had been an Intervarsity organizer for decades, starting bible studies on scores of college campuses.

I had the great privalage of being in a small group he and his wife Jo led at Christ Church and then again at St. Gabriel's Church. He helped me start a bible study in downtown Denver when I was working at Mountain Bell.

This was the text in one of the very last sessions I participated in with Fr. Bruce, in a home in Cherry Hills owned by a couple from England who attended St. Gabriel, where we all were members at the time.

Friday 4 January https://pray-as-you-go.org/player/prayer/2019-01-04 #Prayasyougo

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.

How to build community.