Since 1994, what we now call IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops have been held to help people who are starting down a new path with a new project or campaign, a new career or new business. 5280 Magazine has said we've "infused Denver with an entrepreneurial spirit."

Our Denver IDEA Cafe Group holds a startup workshop each Friday afternoon, and it serves as a model for new groups, we hope to have 10 or 12 in Colorado by the end of 2012.

Each week we invite speakers to share their career, business, and political startup experience and we brainstorm. We've heard from people such as: Dan Brogan, 5280 Magazine; Jared Polis, entrepreneur and U.S. Representative; Kenton Kuhn, Black-tie; Paul Lewan, Lewan & Associates; John Youngquist, Principal of East High School; John Brackney and Joe Blake from the South Metro and Denver Chambers of Commerce; and hundreds of others.

All IDEA Cafe Groups are free and open to all, we just ask that you bring your brain for the brainstorming. Each group is autonomous, except as they effect other IDEA Cafe Groups or the Small Business Chamber of Commerce.

Our mission is to strengthen the grassroots in business and politics. How? We help you increase your ROI (Return on Inspiration)! Some of the best networking in Denver almost always takes place right after the meeting. But please, join us to learn, never come just to network.

Join us any Friday you need a boost as you get started in a new direction with a new career, new project or campaign, or a new business!

The IDEA Cafe is now part of your Small Business Chamber of Commerce, which is cooperating with local chambers to help start new IDEA Cafe startup workshops across Colorado and beyond. For more about the SBCC, see our Facebook page , we'll schedule our first "Big Event" soon, free to those who attend and free to exhibitors who have joined the SBCC Meetup, http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber