Poker Night for the Cincinnati Startup Community. Take a break from work, grab a drink. Leave your business cards at the door.

Led by veteran entrepreneurs and investors, the Startup Advantage Lecture/Workshop Series is designed to stimulate your thinking and tilt the odds in your favor regarding tech-related business startups.

Lean startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning through fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. We are Louisville area entrepreneurs taking lean startup and customer development techniques to practice in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

Bluegrass Elite Mastermind Group is the place where Kentucky’s best, brightest, and most aggressive small business owners and entrepreneurs with a love for personal growth and financial success, come together to learn, share, be accountable, and implement the most cutting edge small business strategies in the Bluegrass. Our ideas, successes, and methodologies are attributed to the principles of the Mastermind Group as originally discovered and outlined in the greatest business book of all time, …

Are you looking for alternative sources of capital to help grow your startup or small business? Are you interested in investing in something besides the stock market? Would you like to help support your local community, create jobs, and build a sustainable economy? Join our meetup. At our meetings we discuss crowdfunding and other alternative forms of financing. Businesses have the opportunity to present their concepts and get feedback from the group.

This is a group of entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters who are interested in leveraging the amazing accessibility, quality of life, and business community in Woodford County to start, accelerate, and grow businesses. If you have a great idea, a vision, or even a growing company - this group is for you. Our goal is to share ideas, help each other grow, and build a thriving small business community in Woodford County.

We have a thriving CincyBusiness meetup for entrepreneurs that meets in Norwood, but that's a long trip in rush hour for north-Cincinnati entrepreneurs. So You should join if: you have a start-up business and want to network with folks just like you and get advice from our network of local experts. You Shouldn't join if you just want to sell stuff to the other members. In this interactive group. You pick the topics, and I recruit the experts. Let us know what you want to discuss at our meetings.

This is an exploratory group for people interested in learning about, participating in, or starting worker-owned and worker-managed collectives, cooperatives, businesses or organizations. Wikipedia explains worker self-management (or autogestion) as “a form of workplace decision-making in which the workers themselves agree on choices instead of an owner or traditional supervisor telling workers what to do, how to do it and where to do it... [It] is often the decision-making model used in co-ope …

This is the group for all dedicated business owners in the Lexington, KY area to come and learn from each other and from an ActionCOACH. Nowhere in Lexington is there a place strictly for business owners and Senior Managers to come together to network, learn and grow as business owners. The group serves two purposes, to form a community of business owners and to provide proven strategies that can be implemented that afternoon to improve your revenue and profits. Be a business owner can be a lone …

The purpose of this group is to enable entrepreneurs to learn about Lean Start-Ups, as described in Eric Ries' book by the same name, and to help each other. As defined by Eric, entreprenuers aren't just people who want to start a business- they can be anyone who is venturing into the unknown under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Members can come from non-profits, education, any walk of life, or be of any age where people have new ideas that they want to try, and need help.

This group is for anyone that follows or wants to learn more about the principles behind Joe Polish and Dean Jackson's "I Love Marketing" This is an opportunity to share and learn the latest marketing tactics for your business and your life. This will be extremely strategic and I hope a huge value for everyone. The groups have sprung up all over the country. You can go to www.ilovemarketing.com to learn more

I LOVE MARKETING TOO is for business owners and entrepreneurs who listen to the I LOVE MARKETING Podcast with Dean Jackson and Joe Polish. Dean and Joe are both wildly successful entrepreneurs who have made millions for themselves and their clients. In this meetup we talk about how to apply money-making, freedom generating marketing principles to our own businesses.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more 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. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just an id …

Our energetic network of local entrepreneurs shares tips on growing our businesses, solving problems and sharing recommendations for the best resources. THE MEMBERS PICK THE TOPICS, and we'll bring in local experts to lead discussions as needed. This is YOUR GROUP, so come to the meetings, help set the agenda and contribute to our success. Send your ideas to the Organizer or post them on the site. Our Goals: - Give mutual advice to each other, leveraging our experiences and our contacts. - Find …

We have a lot going on at The Brandery and want to make sure everyone has access to our calendar. We are going to post Brandery sponsored events and links to other meetup groups, happy hours and classes that host events in our space at 1411 Vine Street. Come out and join us!

A group for social entrepreneurs in Louisville and the surrounding region to come together to share ideas, learn and inspire each other.

Join together for an informal discussion of topics of interest to business. Come with something to share, whether it is a problem you're having or an idea you want to promote. We'll collect the topics, vote on them, and the vote tally will set the priority for discussion. We'll set a time limit of 7 minutes per topic. At the end of the 7 minutes, the group can vote to continue the discussion for another 7 minutes, or move on to the next topic. This is a relaxed environment and should not be …

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events will generally focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development.

InnovateLTC & Health 2.0 have partnered to create Louisville Health 2.0. This collaboration will continue to harness the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of Louisville's Cluster of providers, suppliers and payors by building a fierce a network of innovators, educators, mentors and funding sources. This provides a rich environment for thought leadership and collaborations to ignite the creation of purposeful, disruptive and innovative solutions across the health care continuum.

Cincinnati professionals that want to network with others while playing the game of poker. This group is for games that are within 20 minutes of downtown CVG. The term "professional" is being used here to distinguish a group of people who take their life seriously AND are not JUST super serious poker nuts. Members are encouraged to attend events and invite others as well as create their own events. Hosts are allowed to charge for optional food and beverage but games are not allowed to have a ra …