Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. We bring the San Francisco lean startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. What works? What doesn't? Is lean just a buzzword? Or can it really help build businesses? * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

A Webmission is a delegation of Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurs that travel abroad to promote their companies and to network, taking advantage of an international Internet/Tech event and the secondary happenings around it. Taking advantage of this year's Google I/0 event (19-20/05), We are organizing a new Webmission for Belgian entrepreneurs, journalists bloggers and Internet, mobile and tech enthusiasts, interested in promoting themselves in the US markets. This is a great opportunity …

Startup up boot camp for Android, iOS, HTML5, WP startups.

TechCentralSF is San Francisco’s exclusive online directory resource and collaborative community for High Tech, Biotech, and Cleantech with over 1,000 start-up companies and established innovators making breakthroughs across San Francisco. TechCentralSF is a B2B exchange to support entrepreneurs, startups & the SF tech ecosystem. TCSF brings together the hottest startups and entrepreneurs through popular events such as the startup crawl, the startup mixer, and visionary leadership panel discussi …

Vision: To promote and cultivate a tech entrepreneurial spirit within the U.S. Latino community; to increase the amount of Latino led technology innovation not only in Silicon Valley but globally as well. Mission: To encourage the inspiration and cultivation of Latino led technology startup ventures by providing a strong support network of fellow entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, & mentors.

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

San Francisco Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch. The leadership team is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch. Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment. Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the San Francisco, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to prac …

We connect startup entrepreneurs with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors,  and learn how to build startups from successful entrepreneurs. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our entrepreneur community …

Welcome to StartupMonthly Startup Accelerator Startup Accelerator in Silicon Valley providing an ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become your …

At Startup EduTech you will find people who can help you take your educational mobile app or digital learning ventures to the next level. Submit your EduTech Startup: http://goo.gl/W9z91 Pitch your game changing idea: Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded It's all possible, when you 'empower young minds and the hands that guide them!' Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/StartupEduTech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ByParents4Kids Twitter: http://t …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on personal finance or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups. To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services. Although we welcome everyone there is not a …

I decided to start this group to support returning veterans - come from a military family and wanted to honor them and others who have served. We will bring the tech community together with vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to help them with integrate with the tech eco-system in SF Bay Area. Vets returning from Iraq/Afghanistan and members of the tech community are encourged to attend and work together on entrepreneural endeavors. Our vets bring a unique perspective to many of our tech st …

ARE YOU A STARTUP / SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR IN PALO ALTO & SAN FRANCISCO LOOKING FOR FUNDING? MEETUP WITH ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS AND LEARN WHAT BUSINESS CROWDFUNDING CAN DO FOR YOUR COMPANY. Hello, As entrepreneurs, we know how hard it is to raise funds for a Startup or small business. Too often it becomes a full-time job, distracting us from running and growing our business. This meetup will hold events in SF to bring founders and investors in the same room and help them get ready to …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This was a group for people interested in issues such as sustainability and economic justice and wanting to create a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. That currency has since been created. Check it out: www.bay-bucks.com. Bay Bucks is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, structured as a non-profi …

Startup California and Startup Bay Area are regions of The Startup America Partnership a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case See www.startupcal.org for more information. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game. GOALS We have three main goals: 1. Provide valuable …

AfriTank is a support network geared towards budding entrepreneurs in the diaspora who wish to do business on The Continent. We meet up with the premise that accountability and feedback are great ways to ensure our ideas move forward and become tangible ventures that will help transform the African society. The agendas for our meet up will consist of brainstorming, business plan development, and mock investor presentations where ideas are pitched and critiqued by the group. Our mission is to con …

Build, Find and Fund Next Big Mobile Apps, eBooks and Games in Education (K-12)

This group is to get people in the community together for lunch once a month! We want to meet interesting people who are working in tech startups and LOVE fried chicken!

Do you have start-up idea, side-project, or just a hobby, and are having problems finding the time to turn it from just a concept into reality? The idea of impetus afternoons is to give you a push to do the work required to turn it your idea into something more concrete. We will get together in a coffee shop for a few hours on a weekend and actually hold our collective noses to the grind stone so we can actually make some progress on our side projects, whatever they may be. I am a software engin …

This group is for developers/startups that are interested in creating apps for smart glass technology, i.e. google glass project and vuzix smart glasses. We hope to work together on ideas and coding but since this technology is not available yet to the public it will have to rely on members bringing their own resources if possible and sharing with the rest of the group. We will host MeetUps with speakers and networking. Please feel free to contact one of the organizers if you can sponsor a MeetU …

This group is created to facilitate Growth Hacking practices to allow businesses to accelerate growth in a defined metric. Growth hacking is the art and science of creatively fostering awareness, traction, adoption, engagemant, new customers and advocacy using unorthodox and surprising means (many digital). It’s quite literally a hack for traditional processes to accelerate business. The vision of this group is to hold events and meet ups where entrepreneurs with established businesses get toget …

The "Verticalize your Startup" meetup group is dedicated to hosting events in San Francisco around tech startups in 30+ industry verticals. These industry-specific tech startups will be invited to come together once a year for the Verticalize conference & expo - and meetup group members will get special perks! Here's a complete list of industry verticals we organize around: http://verticalize.me/2013/verticals/ All Verticalize group members will get free expo passes to Verticalize 2013 and big d …

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If you believe in a fulfilling career outside of traditional paths, then you are ripe for "Uncubing"! Join the movement. If you are a talented dev, designer or hustler looking to access a whole slew of great opportunities in one single place, then you'll fit right on in! Be the first to learn about upcoming events, early bird discounts, exclusive workshops, and advice for getting face-time with some of the leading startups in across the US. About Us: Wakefield is a media company that publishes o …

Startups for Profit * Purpose is the community and launchpad for startups that make a difference in peoples lives, solve the worlds problems, and achieve amazing financial success all at the same time. For anyone with a passion for charities, causes, entrepreneurship, and/or technology this is a community dedicated to your success.  This is the space for community leaders, philanthropists, technologists, creative talent, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs to come together to combine their ef …

Potrero Hill startups! PubNub wants to meet you! Our neighborhood is expanding with new start ups at a rapid rate. Let's connect over everyone's favorite activity...DRINKING! Of course, it's not all about the drinking. It mostly is, but it's a bit early in the relationship to reveal just how fond we are of imbibing in potent potables. Although, I suppose the cat's out of the bag now. Join us as we get to know our neighboring companies and local bars!

Interested in getting more involved in the entrepreneurial scene in SF but not sure where to start? This group provides an authoritative but friendly firsthand look at the current Bay Area landscape. From impromptu drinks with mentors and hiring managers to both speaker-centric and straight-up social events at cool offices around SOMA, we'll give you an insider's introduction to startup culture in the area code where it all started.