ARE YOU A STARTUP / SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR IN PALO ALTO & SAN FRANCISCO LOOKING FOR FUNDING? MEETUP WITH ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS AND LEARN WHAT BUSINESS CROWDFUNDING CAN DO FOR YOUR COMPANY. Hello, As entrepreneurs, we know how hard it is to raise funds for a Startup or small business. Too often it becomes a full-time job, distracting us from running and growing our business. This meetup will hold events in SF to bring founders and investors in the same room and help them get ready to …

Interested in getting more involved in the entrepreneurial scene in SF but not sure where to start? This group provides an authoritative but friendly firsthand look at the current Bay Area landscape. From impromptu drinks with mentors and hiring managers to both speaker-centric and straight-up social events at cool offices around SOMA, we'll give you an insider's introduction to startup culture in the area code where it all started.

Do you have start-up idea, side-project, or just a hobby, and are having problems finding the time to turn it from just a concept into reality? The idea of impetus afternoons is to give you a push to do the work required to turn it your idea into something more concrete. We will get together in a coffee shop for a few hours on a weekend and actually hold our collective noses to the grind stone so we can actually make some progress on our side projects, whatever they may be. I am a software engin …

At Startup EduTech you will find people who can help you take your educational mobile app or digital learning ventures to the next level. Submit your EduTech Startup: http://goo.gl/W9z91 Pitch your game changing idea: Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded It's all possible, when you 'empower young minds and the hands that guide them!' Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/StartupEduTech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ByParents4Kids Twitter: http://t …

A networking group to discuss top of mind content to help grow startups and small business around the San Francisco area.

A group for: 1 Writting as startup 2 Entrepreneurs who plan to publish book

Potrero Hill startups! PubNub wants to meet you! Our neighborhood is expanding with new start ups at a rapid rate. Let's connect over everyone's favorite activity...DRINKING! Of course, it's not all about the drinking. It mostly is, but it's a bit early in the relationship to reveal just how fond we are of imbibing in potent potables. Although, I suppose the cat's out of the bag now. Join us as we get to know our neighboring companies and local bars!

TechCentralSF is San Francisco’s exclusive online directory resource and collaborative community for High Tech, Biotech, and Cleantech with over 1,000 start-up companies and established innovators making breakthroughs across San Francisco. TechCentralSF is a B2B exchange to support entrepreneurs, startups & the SF tech ecosystem. TCSF brings together the hottest startups and entrepreneurs through popular events such as the startup crawl, the startup mixer, and visionary leadership panel discussi …

We're a group of developers originally from Seattle doing a startup based in San Francisco. San Francisco brings a lot of diversity , culture and new ideas. We'd love to meet up with folks interested in startups, business, technology who are new to the area and may be missing home as well.

This group is to get people in the community together for lunch once a month! We want to meet interesting people who are working in tech startups and LOVE fried chicken!

Meet other Apple iOS iPhone iPad Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups, investors from San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley Area to discuss how to build and promote iPhone based business. This is an open meetup. You are welcome to participate, or present your iPhone app, ideas, or solutions. We meet every month. Usually we have the follow agenda: 1 Networking 2 Speakers Presentations. 3 App Demos 4 Announcements We welcome to app demos, speakers, sponsors, blogs, news: 1 Please submit your  demo …

Missions: This meetup group is all about getting YOU FUNDED!!! It's also a very fun and interactive group as we have on  the last Wed. of each month we partner with Plug & Play Tech Center for Pitch Demo to Investors. If you have a project that falls in any of the categories listed in http://www.gazillionfund.com, feel free to send me your excerpt. All of our own meetup events are free, and we even provide food to most of them! And this meetup group also provides free passes or discounted price …

Enterprise technology is changing the face of large organizations by bringing efficiency, increased profitably, and employee happiness. The SF #EntTech Meetup works to foster innovation in enterprise tech, build a community of learning, and promote the best and brightest within the space. Organized by PaperG and Acceleprise.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

This group is created to facilitate Growth Hacking practices to allow businesses to accelerate growth in a defined metric. Growth hacking is the art and science of creatively fostering awareness, traction, adoption, engagemant, new customers and advocacy using unorthodox and surprising means (many digital). It’s quite literally a hack for traditional processes to accelerate business. The vision of this group is to hold events and meet ups where entrepreneurs with established businesses get toget …

Let's Meet Up and check out Innovation Alley at the Israel in the Gardens festival, Vote for your favorite non-profit start-up, check out emerging Israeli imported companies, hear a live set by Mosh Ben Ari and other Israeli performers, bring your resume if you need a job, bring your check book if your looking to invest, meet some cool entrepreneurs. You never know who you will meet while charging your phone at the hot spot charging station. There is something for everyone in the Alley, give you …

Anyone who has ever done anything amazing has never done it alone. This group is dedicated to forming new apps, websites, businesses and nonprofits by bringing together ideas, skill sets, and dedicated people. We'll meet regularly in San Francisco (and maybe the surrounding area). Envisioning this group to be part networking, part brainstorming, part troubleshooting, but all fun. Let's start it up!

For those of you that are bootstrapping a business or are early stage ventures, feel free to meet-up with the group for communal work sessions. The idea is sit down around other productive, like-minded individuals who are striving toward a similar goal. We will choose coffee shops, libraries, bars w wifi, ext to meet, do work, and collaborate. These will be regular meetings in the Mission District, San Francisco CA.

Mobile Reviewers for Apps, abbreviated MR.A  meet up group is to help start ups, mobile app developers to help with their feedback. When you launch new app in the market this group will help find people who can give honest feedback and share their thoughts and download the App and report any issues... I believe this is going to be of huge help for start ups, developers, testers and everyone who would like to share their opinion and help new Apps deliver better from the start up...! All are welco …

Networking is great but sometimes you need to sharpen your skills. We are a group of marketers that are committed to life-long learning in marketing. We will be hosting talks and classes that are taught by industry experts from companies that you know and love. Maybe you are a marketing professional looking to expand to new channels or a recent grad looking to learn some new skills, either way come join us and get your learn on. Classes will range from beginner to advanced.

API Hack Day brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on projects, start new ventures and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with. API Hack Day events are sponsored by a core group of companies that are built on and around APIs, including Mashery, Twilio, Apigee, SimpleGeo, and SendGrid. Most of the companies are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we hold API Hac …

The reason why I started this Meetup: http://www.charlottehan.com/post/43449623357/its-time-to-be-real-women-in-tech In short, this is a place where women can be safe and comfortable to be real "women", in tech. • We started in SF, but we’re (more than) happy to be in other cities in the world • We are women who share the common interest in tech • We co-work, learn, help and share. Most importantly, we have fun! • We also discuss broader “girlie topics”. After all, "technology" is just one part …

We are a business networking group in Pacifica, California of over 20 members. Our goal is to create commerce in a non-compete environment. We meet at the Sharp Park golf course on Thursdays from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM for a lunch meeting. Please join us and bring business cards!

"This Group is for the Design District, Potrero Hill and Greater SF Start Ups and People in the Tech Industry to get out of the office see some great art, drink some great drinks and hopefully network with people in the in Neighborhood and Industry" Hosted by a Different Start Up every week learn about who is building what and how all while drinking a beer or playing a round of ping pong.

Ever since I moved from San Francisco to the East Bay to start a family, I have enjoyed my days of sunshine, not waiting in line to get into the Trader Joe's parking lot, and my backyard. What I'm missing are the networking events of San Francisco and Silicon Valley which all happen around the same time I have to give my newborn a bath. If this sounds like you, or if you are in the start up world (or want to be) but are on the East Side of the Bridge + Tunnel, join this group. Our restaurants an …

Wisdom 2.0 Women is created to support and inspire women to tap into and live from their own internal wisdom. It is created and inspired from Wisdom 2.0 which asks: How do we live with greater mindfulness, presence and compassion in the digital age?

This group is for all queer professionals in the tech industry. Whether you write code, support customers, recruit, plan events, draft copy, design sites, sell product and whatever else, we want to hear and learn from and with you. This group is about offering support and solidarity to queer folks who generally work in straight spaces. Let's have fun, share stories, offer advice and be together.

Social innovation is transforming education, healthcare, and government, and now it's time to bring it to the streets to one of the biggest issues in our city: homelessness. There is a huge need for new innovations around homelessness and we already have the skills and resources to make an impact - now we just need to get connected! This group is for technologists, entrepreneurs, community organizers, and anyone who wants to help form a homeless innovation community in our city. We will bring in …