Support and networking group for those doing startup ventures

Startup Saturdays is all about empowering the global community through offering knowledge to enhance leadership, entrepreneurship and technical skills. With the knowledge and skillset taught though Startup Saturdays individuals are able to explore new business and career opportunities that lead to a better quality of life and higher earnings. Explore new pathways for your life by attending one of our classes. We are here to assist individuals with personal growth and help eliminate unsightly hu …

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This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Meetup to discuss starting up and running small businesses - exchange ideas, network

This Meetup Group is about the Lean Startup Methodology developed by Eric Ries. It is centered on the implementation of this methodology to the Internet startups where participants work. Participants will be able to share their successes and difficulties of implementation with the group so as to create a learning process. We will focus more on tools than concepts, and on practice than on theory, as our interest is in the immediate implementation of these tools in our startups and the lessons lea …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and, in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, …

This is a group to connect Big Data start ups and entrepreneurs in San Francisco for networking, pitches, workshops, demonstations and much more. This group is ideal for: * Big Data Startup Companies * Entrepreneurs * Developers and Programmers * Investors * Big Data Recruiters * Big Data Service Providers

This group is for startups building on the Microsoft platform.  You may be part of the Microsoft BizSpark startup program but this is not necessary to join. This group will share in our experience with being a startup based on the Microsoft platform and related technologies (.Net, Azure, Silverlight, etc. - you name it). Note: this group is not affiliated with Microsoft, though it was started by a BizSpark member startup and we are big fans! BizSparkSF is now a BizSpark Network Partner and can r …

Startup Sales Circle is focused on getting early-stage companies and entrepreneurs together to talk about sales and sales strategies. We'll focus on what has worked, what hasn't, and we'll also try and get at least one seasoned speaker every meetup to talk about startup sales strategies and tactics that work.

We are the San Francisco Business Makers, independent small business leaders who come together once a month to network, to share referrals, to support and celebrate each other as we strive to achieve our goals for success. We at SF Business Makers believe there is always business to be made by working together as a team. Our group is independent of other local and national networking organizations. Since we have years of knowledge and experience between us, we offer each other ideas and encourag …

Our first Group Summit with great speakers and venue will happen in 2013, projected month: October. Location: Maui, Hawai'i - beautiful Beaches, Palm Trees and Sunset! Yes, we are working to make good things happen!  Join us! Our non-profit LGBT Business Summit Meetup Group is focused on: Business Professionals, Managers and Owners in our Community. Bringing our Community of Business Professionals, Managers and Owners together. Acknowledgement of our Community Contribution, Talents and Accom …

Are you in the workforce and looking to go back to graduate school for your MBA? Are you a business school graduate in need of some refresher courses? Are you a business owner looking to better manage your business? If you answered yes to any of these, join us for free MBA lessons, each geared toward a specific topic and taught by students in the accelerated MBA program at the Hult Business School.

Bay Area Entrepreneurs, Business & Service Professionals, Sales Executives are invited to join the network. By building powerful partnerships with like minded professionals we can grow our businesses together. Through our networking events you will meet potential business partners, advisers, mentors and friends and generate referrals and other contacts to build on your success. See you at our next event.

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Cool startup ideas are hard to find! But so are good technology partners. The right execution of cool startup ideas matters! Join the Startup Development meetup group and share your successes (and failures) on developing startup in-house, hiring onshore and offshore contractors, share tips and learn from others.

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

This group is for companies and for individuals who are interested in internationalizing their business towards Europe. Either, because they want to expand their business activities to Europe... Or because they have been living and working there and they want to share experience and network... Or simply because they are looking to find partner companies in Europe. Initially the group focuses on Germany, mainly on the cities of Munich and Berlin. Munich, as it is an international high-tech hub, b …

This group is for anyone who is interested in meeting other Startups or Developers in the San Francisco area, while enjoying a good night. We will either sponsor or be part of events around the city, where we can just hang out and get to know each other.

We all love the breakthrough platform for startups called AngelList [http://angel.co/]. It's time AngelList has a User Group. This cluster will share experience about how to get the most from AngelList. Like the best user groups, we are independent, sponsored by users only. Join us to continuously develop your expertise with AngelList, share stories, have some impassioned conversation and hopefully a lot of fun.

Keiretsu Forum's Entrepreneur Academy equips you, an entrepreneur, to accelerate your access to the capital, expertise, and resources you need to grow your business. Each of the courses is led by seasoned industry executives and delivers practical, relevant, and timely knowledge and practices that are critical to your business.

This Meet Up Community is for helping entrepreneurs and startups learn how to expand their creativity around business ideas, problem-solving, and team building to produce expansive results and competitive advantage. This group is being set up to offer a platform and space for creative coaching and guidance to help overcome challenges and learn new ways to be innovative- it makes having a problem, 'fun'. Did you know that most of us are trained automatically, through our education and societal sy …

Description of Community Group: It takes skill, resources and a community to create a successful business, be it a high-tech start-up or a small business. At Golden Gate University, many of our students choose to start their own ventures upon graduation, building on the knowledge they've gained with us. Business owners also come to GGU looking to fill gaps in their training and gain the confidence it takes to compete in the climate today. Many of our faculty are themselves investors and entrepre …

Rapid SaaS (formerly Dane Maxwell's Entrepreneurs and Advocates) brings together like minded entrepreneurs committed to get out of the rat race by launching a Software as a Service business that accumulates predictable and automated revenue. For those who understand the profit potential of SaaS but need help starting, we provide a powerful platform and support group One of our goals is to demystify SaaS and web based businesses. If you thought you needed tons of money, a technical background, o …

FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHSF.org has become the leading network for all things fashion and technology in Silicon …