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 …

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 …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

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.

Startup Grind is a global event series and community designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Fellow Entrepreneurs, Mentors, & Investors meet once a week to grab coffee and chat about startups.  Entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network, ask questions, and do deals all around the world...it's about time we Cbus hops onboard. This isn't the place to pitch; it's the place to connect, ask questions, and learn about what's happening in Columbus' local startup scene.

Calling all Tech Igniters! This group is for anyone interested in igniting more tech startups, especially those that are focused on a fast-growth Silicon Valley type of 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! Let's hone …

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!

This is a group for anyone interested in Non-Profits. If you are starting one, have started one or just want to get involved then this group is for you. When we started our NP (Lean On Me Outreach-LOMO), we had many challenges and very little help. So, we decided to create this group to offer help, support and a place to network with other NP’s. Our main goal is to create a community that works together to help support build up and grow our NP’s together, so that we all can impact our communitie …

East Side Business Network was created to offer small business owners in the Reynoldsburg, Pickerington, New Albany and Gahanna, OH areas an opportunity to meet, network, share ideas, and trade services. ESBN will foster collaborative culture and will strive to strengthen the east side small business community.