Founded in 2008, Tampa Bay WaVE is a non-profit charity (filed as a 501c3) dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into growing tech businesses in Tampa Bay. Today we have over 100 members who are building, launching or growing over 100 web and mobile tech ventures. WaVE's officially stated goal is to help build an ecosystem here in Tampa Bay in order to build & launch 50 new tech ventures a year within 5 years. We are working with the local universities and other like-minded organization …

A discussion of generating traffic, obtaining venture capital, finding staff, and other start up related topics.

Minorities in Tech is a Monthly meetup that hosts Tech & Digital Media Professionals from in Orlando and surrounding regions. Our attendees include Tech Business Owners, Software Developers, Angel & Venture Capital Firms, Marketers and Digital Media enthusiasts. This group will serve as a forum for collaboration, networking, education and to lift each other up and develop mentorship within women and minorities in technology-related fields. Our objectives also include programming to help tech com …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Tampa Bay 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 Tampa Bay 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 y …

The Battle Begins... Do you need to find funding for your company?  Then you need a strategic plan of attack!  The competition and investment landscape for corporate funding is a brutal battlefield. You must be better prepared than the rest – there’s absolutely no room for weakness on these front lines! Very simply, either do it right or don’t do it at all! The process of raising capital will be one of the toughest battles of your life. It’s a process made for warriors who are committed to the s …

This is a forum for local tech innovators, geeks and entrepreneurs who want to connect with others to discuss how we can make Tampa Bay more startup friendly. Topics include startup challenges, emerging industry trends as well as public policy issues that need more attention and investment from our local elected officials and economic development agencies. Current participants are founders of tech companies, free lance developers / designers and people with boring day jobs looking for the next b …

A group for members of tech startups in Gainesville to network both socially and professionally. We'll start out with regular Happy Hour outings in downtown and go from there. Between the Florida Innovation Hub, the Sun Center, and Union Street Station, downtown Gainesville is chock full of entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators. Let's meet each other.

Global Entrepreneur Week (GEW) is an annual event that features the best and the brightest entrepreneurs, emerging companies and educational programs for fostering startup growth. The Kauffman Foundation, the worlds premier catalyst behind programs and policy for small company creation and growth is the world wide sponsor for GEW. Check out these mentions of last year's GEW in Tampa Bay: http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/11/17/daily25.html http://entrepreneurshipweekusa. …

This is the regional affiliate of Startup Florida, a state affiliate of Startup America.  Startup Spacecoast is for those who have started or are thinking about starting a business as well as those who can mentor or back these companies. The Spacecoast area has some of the deepest per capita technical talent in the US but has not realized its full potential as an entrepreneurial haven. As a founder of several startups and having worked for venture capital funds, I started this group to help fost …

Welcome to Central Florida Tech Startup Investments, a technology start up investment network powered by local investors. Our goal is to identify capital for early stage tech companies and to identify potentially lucrative tech investments.

TiE  started in Silicon Valley 20 years ago. It's a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and business professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE provides a platform for mentoring, networking, and education to entrepreneurs and business professionals. Each TiE location is called a chapter. TiE presently has 61 chapters globally and more than 25,000 members. It's the largest and oldest entrepreneurial organization in the world.  TiE TampaBay meets monthly to con …

Have an invention or idea that you haven't been able to get off the ground? Do you have skills that may be helpful to get a business or invention started? Maybe just want to get involved with a group of innovators to spark new ideas? This is the place to be, lets get together and see if we can get things rolling!

A group of Entrepreneurs eager to make new contacts and grow their business in a fun social and educational environment. Through provided live seminars, business related webinars and meet and greets as well as great events, networking and education. Join us for loads of resources and like minded positive encouragement from fellow small business owners.

Hello Orlando Tech Community! Orlando Tech Meetup happens the 3rd Thursday of each month at various venues around Downtown Orlando. Each Month we have 5 different web product companies out to demo the product they've built to the live audience. The company has 5 minutes to demo their product, then the audience has 5 minutes to ask questions and give real-time feedback to the companies that demoed. We desire to encourage openness and community within the Tech community here in Orlando. We hope to …

A forum for learning, coaching, mentoring, training and networking. Join us to grow ideas, strategies, relationships, and nationwide business contacts. More than 100,000 members worldwide

Coworking is a place where freelancers, technical artisans and entrepreneurs meet to work, chat, collaborate and think. We are here to help foster growth of Tampa Bay's emerging, but well hidden grass roots tech community and to make central Florida a more start-up friendly area. For more info: http://www.ideafield.org Sponsored by: startupmonkey.com

Founded in 2008, Tampa Bay WaVE is a non-profit charity (filed as a 501c3) with a mission is to enable and support the founders of tech startups and the supporting technology innovation community throughout Tampa Bay. Today we have over 60 members who are building, launching or growing over 80 different web and mobile tech ventures, 30% of whom are profitable and cash flow positive. One of our member ventures (Wufoo) was acquired earlier this year for $35 million, and we hope our efforts will g …

Welcome to Palm Coast's Community for the Entrepreneur, Startup Founder, Small Business Owner, and Technical and Creative Folks! We hold free coworking sessions, coworking-jellies, special-topic  meetups and more (most of which have no cost to attend). If you operate in (or have interest in) one of the following areas; then this group and the meetups are for you: Tech & Web Startups Entrepreneurship Small Business Issues iPhone or Android Apps and App-Development Website Design and Development …

Are you a Professional Coach (Life, Business, Executive, Health, etc.) wanting real, practical support from fellow coaches on running your business? How about developing new relationships with your "peeps," to toss around business strategies, brainstorm that new project, share marketing tips, find resources and referrals, and discuss joint venture/partnership opportunities? Then this group is for you! We don't focus on lecture learning (speakers). I don’t know about you, but I am up to my ears …