Over the past several weeks I've been meeting informally with a half-dozen or so folks from Humboldt and surrounding neighborhoods about starting or expanding businesses in the Target Area. We're talking about general business strategies right now. There has been some limited discussion about participants individual ideas.

My question: Is there interest in working together in a peer support capacity to share ideas, give advice and direction to one another? I'm considering asking one ''expert'' to join us from time to time, and make presentations on marketing, finance and management topics.

What do you think?