Drinks event for anyone involved in technology and startups in Notting Hill and West London.

Standford University is offering 2 startup-related courses in 2012: Technology Entrepreneurship (aka "venture-class", from January 2012) How do you create a successful start-up? What is entrepreneurial leadership in a large firm? What are the differences between an idea and true opportunity? How does an entrepreneur form a team and gather the resources necessary to create a great enterprise? This class mixes in-depth case studies and research on the entrepreneurial process. Lean Lanchpad (aka …

… Using a combination of Lean Startup, The Four Steps to Epiphany, Crossing the Chasm, and Miller Heimann methodologies, at the end of the programme you will: Have pivoted several times and aligned your target market with your product development Defined your business model and extracted KPIs that measure your business growth Sat with potentail customers and gottent their feedback Sat with potential customers and engaged in selling Developed a robust go-to-market strategy Begun executing that str …

Welcome to the Business Mentoring Group. We help London based SME’s, including Pre Starts and Startups, and Business Mentors. London based SME’s gain from free business mentoring sessions. These sessions are usually held in an open environment where they can benefit from an outside perspective. We are also in the process of encouraging Professional Business Mentors to offer their services for free via our group.  This allows London based businesses to gain access to professional business mentor …

… We'll be hosting Startup Week in January, followed by Social Media and Fashion Week. We'd love for all you startups, entrepreneurs, small businesses and freelancers to get involved. We're based on Tottenham Court Road - pop in for a quick tour if you're in the area.

The CoFounders in London Meetup aims to tackle the current challenge of disconnected early stage networks and aims to connect crucial startup founders and partners together. There's always that one key person we all want for our game-changing idea or venture. That added skillset we currently don't have. Well, CoFounders in London is the space where we hope to connect each of us with that partner, stakeholder or cofounder we so greatly require. We plan to organise monthly events where tech guys w …

This is a group for people involved in start ups, want to be involved in start ups or want to invest in start ups. If you have a killer idea and you dont know where to start...come along have a chat... We can learn a lot from those who've been there and done that....whether failed or succeeded! If you know someone who you think would be a good member please do invite them but also tell us you are doing so - to ensure we accept their application.

I created this group after being rejected and realising that there will be many people with awesome ideas that didn't make it through, and that maybe, just maybe, we might be able to help each other to get our ideas off the ground (with or without their help). Let us work together and help each other to create some awesome projects. We will be putting on a series of events to help with networking, product development, pitching, etc. turning this slight bump in the road into an opportunity. As …

If you are part of a business or idea that will need financeing over the coming years then it typically takes 6-9 months minimum to secure and requires you to have very strong relationships with investors. This MeetUp group was created by BankToTheFuture.com for entrepreneurs, businesses and investors to meet each other and share the challenging process of raising finance for businesses and finding good investable businesses. It was also to created to educate entrepreneurs, businesses and invest …

The City Enterprise Service is a free walk-in centre offering legal and business advice. You will be interviewed by law students at The City Law School of City University London supervised by local professionals and start-up owners. We can assist with: *business planning *business structure and incorporation *contractual agreements *funding opportunities *intellectual property issues *marketing and multimedia When: Tuesday evenings - to be confirmed

The Flagons Den is a social event for entrepreneurs who: - are looking to build teams to work on their ideas, or - want to join teams to work on great ideas - want more value from the networking events they find the time to attend.  

This group offers a platform for entrepreneurs with complementary skill sets to connect with each other, facilitating the initial team-building process. As strong believers in the lean approach, we feel start-ups should not have to spend their hard-earned funding or personal savings to recruit team members. Instead, you just need the opportunity to meet likeminded co-founders/new team members in a relaxed environment. Whether you're a co-founder with a technical background looking to find a busi …

Start-up Now is where technology, web, and mobile start-ups really START. Quickly identify collaborators / co-founders, quickly agree how you are going to work together, and START.