Come together for a meetup and not only learn how to create a Tiny Startup, but make real progress on starting your own. These aren't 'get inspired and never do anything about it' type of events, these are 'come learn how to do something, then do it--while you're still at the event' type of events. It's gonna be really fun and it's going to make you smarter and better than you've ever been before.

Come join us for GREAT business connections and ideas! Let's discuss issues that are unique to those of us who work from home-based offices, and of course, let's share our entrepreneurial attitude and spirit! Let's focus on enriching ourselves and our businesses. This group is open to ALL home-based & small business owners who love what they do for a living, so we respectfully ask that you share your product or service, not your business opportunity. Let's empower each other by sharing ideas and …

This Group is designed to fuse established and new businesses together to share opportunities, expereinces, strategies and successes all while networking in a fun and social way.

This group is for Business Networking and education. We will be featuring " Breakfast with Fran" Fran Tarkenton, Hall of Fame Quarterback and Successful Entrepreneur will be telecasting a Monthly Interview with Selected Business Experts and opening it up for Q & A. This is an excellent opportunity to meet with Fellow Business owners to network as well as share ideas in a "mastermind" group.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Portland Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Portland serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complements you …

Meet some of the most interesting startups in Portland. And grab a bite to eat with your peers. All for free. Interested in participating? Sign up to host Portland Lunch 2.0. Interested in suggesting a venue? Please use Meetup to do so. Coordinated by Silicon Florist and PIE. Brought to you by the awesome Portland, Oregon, startup scene.

This group is for starters in Portland who wish to create software businesses that provide them a very comfortable lifestyle while contributing to the world around them. If you are building (or considering building) Software as a Service applications that require no co-founders or any outside investment, this group is for you.

This is for people who have made a decision to strike out on their own either out of necessity or to follow their dreams. This is for people that don't have investment funds to rely on, 401k's to cash out, bank loans to borrow. This is for the truly inventive and driven Clark County residents to come together like puzzle pieces to help one another start or grow their small businesses. We will engage in "smart" networking. This means methodically discovering each other's goals, needs and skills t …

To bring together business people of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, and networking support

The Portland, Oregon Lean Startup Circle Meetup. “A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/what...... "A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a product or service in conditions of extreme uncertainty" (Eric Ries) The number one reason that Startups fail is lack of customers (~90%), not product development failure (~10%). The Lean Startup is an approach that attempts to acknowledge this and create …

This is a group for anyone interested in startups, technology, entrepreneurship, engineering, etc.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning drive to succeed,  to make it big 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, fin …

Demolicious shines a well-deserved spotlight on some of the best work from Portland's web and mobile tech communities. Each event includes about five demos on the stage of the Mission Theater. Judges provide feedback, critique and questions. Then the attendees determine a winner. Previous presenters have gone on to raise money from PIE, the Portland Seed Fund and other investors.

A group of entrepreneurs who meet regularly to stimulate the free flow of entrepreneurial ideas and share real life experience and wisdom. Some of our events will be sponsored and some will promote specific programs.

Open Capitalist - Portland is a spin-off from opencapitalist.org. We are starting a well outfitted community workshop in Portland, Oregon to facilitate entrepreneurs. Need shop space to move your project forward? Need specialized engineering help? Want to help others build small businesses? Come join us! We are initially focusing on metal working, electronics, plastics, and composites. These require specialized tools and we are going to provide them and the support you need to be success …

Blog: http://thingtuesday.com/ We decided to create our own open meetup to discuss and learn about the Internet of Things. We encourage the curious, the hackers the entrepreneurs and the executives who are engaging in this area to come join us to listen to talks, share in conversation and networking. Each session we will have talks, "show and tells "and space to hack and network with others. Modelled on two phenomenally influential and successful groups, Mobile Monday and the catalytic Silicon V …

Meet other iOS iPhone iPad Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups from the Portland area to discuss how to build and promote iPhone based apps and businesses. This is an open meetup. You are welcome to participate, or present your iPhone app, ideas, or solutions.