… We care about a variety of topics including: Founding teams Business and capital formation Strategy, business and financial models Recruiting, benefits and retention Sales, marketing, business development Intellectual property and licensing Aligning business goals with founder goals Our objective is to forge new connections among peers who are dedicated to sharing what they know and being responsive to questions from their fellow Startup Alliance members. If you're a founder or CEO, we invit …

Are you involved in a startup or want to be? Startup Grind was started to help entrepreneurs meet new people face-to-face, and continue to build a lasting relationship with them online after the event. It's a monthly event held in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York City, Ottawa, Seattle, San Francisco and features a range of speakers from founders, to journalists, to investors. More importantly it has the coolest community you've ever seen. Come to our event or go to Commonred.com to meet ama …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance   And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralightstartu …

Welcome to VLAB on MeetUp, an extension of www.vlab.org. Established in 1990, The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (http://www.vlab.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We host one of the leading ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively gro …

PingEast.com is a tech blog with China/US cross-border tech writers, to connect Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors and observers with China—the most huge and mysterious Internet/mobile market in the legend. We generate first hand and in-depth contents including insights, commentaries, cases studies and exclusive fireside interviews related to China startups, entrepreneurs, tech investment as well as the whole ecosystem. PingEast Meetup is a community connecting entrepreneurs and investors b …

Purpose Purpose of this group is to have designers founders thinking about starting up to meet and networked. Who should Join? Computer Software Engineers Designers (graphics, iOS, Android, Windows), Web Application Front End Engineer Search Engineers Back End Engineers Entrepreneurs Why should you join? Bay Area Designers Startup group will allow designers/Entrepreneus to interact during meetings to exchange ideas, share and exchange contacts.

Solid State Startups make physical things. Things that hurt if you drop them on your foot. SSS is a place to share experience and wisdom that only comes from building stuff in the real world.

We work under the principles that there are three key elements to start with that will create a successful startup: good people, a product the market actually wants, and money (either by spending as little money as possible or having access to enough money to it see through to customer interaction). Startups that fail at any one of these three key elements will likely fail. But all three are doable. And that’s what makes startups so exciting – they may be hard but they are doable. Cofounder Clu …

The Community For Silicon Valley Chinese Entrepreneurs to sharing resources and promoting collaboration amongst entrepreneurship and startup initiatives. We provide a comfortable environment for Chinese engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, students, business owners, startup founders, executives and investors. Besides hosting technical and business events as well as social networking lunches, we provide an effective support network and platform by bringing together all kinds of information and r …

Rainmakers is series of miniconferences focusing on entrepreneurial education. Each event is centered around a technological theme on which relevant startup founders and professionals from the industry are invited to share their experiences.

… Red Carpet Monday/RedCarpetMonday, Biznik, Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, Mercury News, Business Referral Network, San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber, Ewomen, Start up/ Startup, Real Estate Professionals, BNI, Keiretsu Forum, infoBAyArea and other networking group members are welcome.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- marketing techniques, marketing communications strategy, product development process, course, trai …

This Meet Up Community is for finding pre-seed funding for iPhone, and Android app development. This group is being set up for for connecting professionals with experience in finance, product development, sales, marketing, and business development to fund and/or create new businesses around the iPhone and Android platforms. Come network, learn, and help new ventures in Silicon Valley launch. We get together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing businesses on …

… This group is more focused on the policies, applications, ideas, startups, and innovations around online data than it is about specific coding languages or underlying technologies.   Potential Data 2.0 Meetup Focuses: - API's and Standardization: Utilizing and contributing to the "structured cloud" - OpenGov Data: Initiatives, Applications, Visualizations, and Analytics - GeoData: From Check-ins and Events to Market Intelligence - Business Intelligence 2.0: Startups who are innovating how busine …

We believe innovation happens when bright minds get together to discuss, share and implement their ideas. Our Mission: We want to enable great minds like yours and help you bring your passion to life with the support of a community of like minded driven individuals. Who we are : A startup community of engineers, designers, investors, advisors and entrepreneurs co-working on innovative ideas big and small. How we operate : We are a startup community facilitating knowledge sharing events, entrepre …

TEC - The Entrepreneurs Club (formely CoolTechClub) is a strong international multi-ethnic network of high-tech entrepreneurs, executives and other professionals. Our members speak English, Russian, Hebrew and many other European languages. We are headquartered in the Silicon Valley and hold regular meetings in Palo Alto, New York and Moscow. Our goals are: * To provide a networking platform for high-tech entrepreneurs coming to Silicon Valley and other high-tech centers from different countr …

Join us for great conversation over a casual lunch.  Meet other entrepreneurs in the same space and network in-between delicious bites of food.