Startup California and Startup OC are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. 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. Startup Orange County is part of the Startup California ecosystem, and has three key goals: 1. Provid …

This is a Techology Startups oriented group using group members collaboration to help kick off local tech companies and support those who have ideas but don’t have the resources to bring it to market. There are so much talents that is under-utilized that we wanted to create an environment that help channel creativity and entrepreneurship and be specifically focused on early ideas and how to support transforming those ideas into tangibles. We welcome professionals in all fields (business, account …

Join us as we explore the technical and production side as well as sales and marketing, channel development, revenue, and other aspects of live streaming production. We believe that peer-to-peer networking is a vital part of any meetup community. If you are currently streaming, or hope to develop streaming capability, come and join us!

The OC Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self-experime …

This is the premier monthly marketing summit for business owners and sales people who what to massively expand their results. Each month Pete Mitchell and Mike Crosby dive deep on a marketing topic that you will be able to take and use right away to increase your sales. Formerly a GKIC meeting, we are proud to be sporting the colors of Joe Polish and Dean Jackson's I Love Marketing.

Are you looking for inspiration? Seeking community? Hungry? Thirsty? Join the FLF community of hungry startups and entrepreneurs and help us change the world. www.thefreelunchfriday.com. We feed the startups and entrepreneurs that feed our global economies. Free Lunch Friday (FLF) is a non-profit with a simple goal; to provide community, content, connections and access to capital to the hungry startups and entrepreneurs who drive global economy. Free Lunch Friday is a connector for startups, ent …

A group that connects entrepreneurs, startups, investors, educators, and pioneers interested in using technology to improve the learning process.

Calling all Writers! Want to join a fun engaging group and learn how to write blogs and online content?! Do you want to help others and get help with your writing? Do you want to share your fun stories with others? Do you want to have the ability to become a writer for a news site and make money!? If you answered yes, to one or all of these then come to our meet up!

TCVN is one of Southern California’s premier technology business networks. Through a wide variety of forums, pitch sessions, workshops, and other networking events, we bring together entrepreneurs and resources from every facet of the technology and startup landscape.

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A community of accomplished women committed to connecting & establishing authentic business connections A Femfessional is a savvy business woman characterized as positive, open-minded, driven, professional, ambitious and desirous of forming strong strategic connections with similar minded professional women to benefit each other personally and professionally and to benefit their community. Not only is she motivated to succeed, she is passionate about the success of others around her. A Femfessio …

Building Trades Network is a highly respected group of professionals within the Home Improvement industry. This is an invitation-only collective of design professionals and hands-on craftsmen who have a long-standing and proven track record of reliability, fair business practices, competitive pricing, punctuality, and accountability to all other members within the BTN group. With weekly meetings throughout the year, we hone our business practices, engage in learning sessions with guest speakers, …

It does't take a village to start a business, but a little help along the way couldn't hurt. FastStart.studio is a mixed-use business incubator in Irvine. FastStart.events are our free events to help entrepreneurs in Orange County. Meet other entrepreneurs and learn from awesome subject matter experts on subjects like; Lean Startup Strategy, Rapid Prototyping, Angel Investors, Creating a Team and Mobile platforms. The goal of FastStart.events is to provide OC with a location and the content that …

Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 event to promote the creation of new networks among aspiring entrepreneurs, current entrepreneurs and investors in innovative cities globally. Both men and women are invited to attend Founder Friday. Founder Friday is hosted in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Austin, New York, Boston, Detroit, Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Bogota (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Vancouver (Canada) and …

TEDxChange 2013 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature local speakers. Our event is called TEDxIrvineChange, and is one of many TEDx events happening around the globe on April 3rd that will expand on the ideas brought up a …

“Calling all Entrepreneurs and Business Owners! We believe in face to face events where long lasting true partnerships can be built and maintained. We are unique group of business owners who enjoy social events and classy experiences. We meet at cool venues around town and enjoy and celebrate each others success. We welcome YOU and your passionate authentic ideas to do business with.  We want to refer you so join us today.

This group is all about bringing together ideas, execution, and funding. There is movement happening in Southern California and we can all take part in this experiment to make it the next big hub of successful startups. Please join us whether you just have an idea, you are on the development side, you are a doer, an investor, a lean practitioner, or just want to meet future successful entrepreneurs in your community.

The purpose of this Meetup is to provide education and networking opportunities for those involved in providing services and products to other businesses.

Who We Are No stressed-out elevator pitch here! There is plenty of passion and ideas and great food to discuss them over; our mixers come with a difference! We offer support for business networking groups by organizing business mixers and business networking group events. Corporate business people and entrepreneurs get together in a fun, relaxed setting. The Vibe also known as the Caribbean Vibe Business Mixer and Referral is, as the name suggests, a referral resource. We create a laid-back envi …