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This new group is intended for Lexington, Kentucky area entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, independent contractors, and growing businesses to increase awareness of how to grow a successful small business. The Lexington Business Project is a group to help start-up and small businesses grow.  The purpose is to promote cooperation between local Lexington businesses and increase awareness of how to grow a small business.  It is difficult to grow a small business and The Lexington Business P …

Startup Grind is a global event series and community designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story 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.

Calling anyone interested in medical device or product development startups! This group is a chance to pitch your ideas for medical devices, share the vision for your startup, or inform the medical device community about your company's newest product. Come join us at our monthly meeting to get involved with great technology. You will make new friends and at our evening events, enjoy some good, local beer. Got an idea you want to share, or a half-baked prototype in your garage you'd like to show …

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.

Business Women Connect is an organization designed to provide resources to facilitate personal development, make real connections and encourage communication. Inspired collaborations will create innovation and success both personally & professionally!

This is a group for small business owners interested in learning the skills needed to build and manage a small business website. No web design knowledge or experience required! The meetups consist of 5 very structured training sessions. The meetups repeat and are numbered to help members keep track. Intro to WordPress CPanel, Themes, and Settings WordPress Plugins and Time Saving Tools Graphics, Photos, & Video Shopping Carts and Selling Tools. Requirements: A laptop computer or iPad or other …

Columbus Business Owners Group (CBOG) aims to help local business owners develop new ideas and strategies through the collective knowledge of the group. Meetings focus on discussing what strategies are working best and what obstacles have been problematic in past months. CBOG also sets time aside every meeting for keynote speakers as well as networking.

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.

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.

eWomenNetwork is the #1 resource for connecting and promoting women and their businesses worldwide. We are committed to helping women and their businesses achieve, succeed and thrive in the new economy. We are first and foremost a loyal, dedicated community of women-owned businesses, corporate professionals, and entrepreneurs who want to support and network with other dynamic women. With our exclusive trademarked brand of Accelerated Networking events occurring in cities all across the United S …

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.

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 …

Fellow Entrepreneurs, Mentors, & Investors meet once a week to grab coffee and chat about startups.  Entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network, ask questions, and do deals all around the world...it's about time we Cbus hops onboard. This isn't the place to pitch; it's the place to connect, ask questions, and learn about what's happening in Columbus' local startup scene.

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 …

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.

PitchFeast is a bi-monthly community meal hosted by Dreamapolis, in which a $5 ticket gives you not only food and fellowship, but also the opportunity to FUNdraise for a creative, Indianapolis idea. PitchFeast welcomes all kinds of creative types for a unique crowd-sourcing competition that leverages the power of the community to fund innovative ideas. If you have a great, creative idea that you think can change the world, or if you're interested in fellowship with like-minded folks, PitchFest …

Calling all Tech Igniters! This group is for anyone interested in igniting more tech startups, especially those that are focused on a fast-growth Silicon Valley type of model. We want to help cultivate and launch startup ideas across the board including Internet-based ventures, mobile apps, ecommerce sites, niche social networks and online communities, digital media content and programming, social and mobile games, clean energy, warp engines, beam-me-up technology ... and much more! Let's hone …

It's a group for those looking to brainstorm, collaborate, give and get feedback on mainly entrepreneurial pursuits but also personal issues as well. Business is personal. None of us is smarter than all of us.

Imagine being part of a network of inventors, entrepreneurs and other creative people; a non-profit group run by inventors for inventors, and having access to the support, guidance and experience for making your idea a reality..... The CKIC is that and much more. Our monthly meetings address topics such as patent law, marketing, business plans, prototyping, funding, technologies and more. Find out more at www.CKIC.org

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 …