Welcome to the STARTUP Columbus meetup group! WHO WE ARE STARTUP Columbus is a small group of individuals with a huge entrepreneurial spirit! We share a common goal to network with other like-minded professionals. Whether seeking assistance, offering advice, learning new skills or feeding off of one another's ideas... all win-win situations. WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN Are you an individual with a new idea but not sure how to get a business started? Are you a small business owner looking to expand an …

It's about time there was a place in Cincinnati for entrepreneurs interested in exploring innovative techniques for growing their businesses. This group will focus on the guiding principles of the Lean Start-up movement: build, measure, learn. You should join this group if you are an entrepreneur or business owner looking to launch your business or efficiently evolve your business. You probably should NOT join this group if you're seeking to sell products or services to businesses. By definition …

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.

Calling all Tech Igniters! ... This group is for anyone interested in igniting more tech startups, especially those that are focused on a high-growth, high-value Silicon Valley 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! ... …

Meet other local Small Business Owners, Self Employed Individuals, startup owners and Entrepreneurs. Come to a Small Business Meetup to network and meet others in business. No hidden agenda, an informal and great opportunity to meet new people and exchange business cards!

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 …

Continuous Web-Cincinnati is a growing group of web startups, designers, and developers that meet monthly at area coffeeshops or bars. Members connect and learn from professionals what it takes to start, build, and lead a great web startup. If you’re a web entrepreneur (creator of a web-based product, services, platform, or community), an owner or operator of a website, or just someone who has a great web idea, come visit the Continuous Web at our next event.

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development. Subscribe to the TechLife newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/xrfwL Please check out a couple of other "on ramps" to o …

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!

InnovateLTC & Health 2.0 have partnered to create Louisville Health 2.0. This collaboration will continue to harness the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of Louisville's Cluster of providers, suppliers and payors by building a fierce a network of innovators, educators, mentors and funding sources. This provides a rich environment for thought leadership and collaborations to ignite the creation of purposeful, disruptive and innovative solutions across the health care continuum.

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 …

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, …

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 …

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!

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events will generally focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development.

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.

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.