If you are looking for co-founders or want to join super-early-stage startups, this is the group to be in. Our goal is to organize face-to-face meetings. We are starting with Silicon Valley, but we intend to conquer the world and spread entrepreneurship everywhere!

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

The Startup Alliance is a peer group for active startup founders and CxOs committed to helping each other maximize their business success. We share information and ideas in face to face events and online. We care about a variety of topics including: Founding teams Business structure and capital formation Strategy, business and financial models Recruiting, benefits and retention Sales, marketing, business development Intellectual property and licensing Aligning business goals with founder goals …

Startup up boot camp for Android, iOS, HTML5, WP startups.

Black Founders connects black tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world. Our mission is to increase the number of successful black entrepreneurs in tech. We are an inclusive group of entrepreneurs and welcome all to join the community.

Mobile Forum is an open  community in the mobile industry in Silicon Valley. Mobile Forum provides valuable information exchange for Mobile & App ecosystem at Silicon Valley, from developers, entrepreneurs, leaders, visionaries; from Android, iOS, WP, Mobile HTML5, Apps, platforms, devices, platforms, solutions, tools, to startups. Mobile Forum holds various event activities and opportunities for members to meet with leaders, including mobile internet leaders, app experts, solutions leaders, and …

We are a network of startup founders and investors in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Our community is dedicated to helping Silicon Valley Chinese Entrepreneurs to share resources and promote collaborations amongst engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, students, business owners, startup founders, executives and investors. Besides hosting technical and business events as well as social networking mixers, we provide an effective supporting network and platform by bringing together all kinds of talents of different technology backgrounds and competences. Please join us!

This meetup is for Entrepreneurs and like minded people to come together, network, attend TiE Silicon Valley's Events,  Fostering Entrepreneurship and create long lasting relationships.

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

The Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Networking is a meetup group created for startup entrepreneurs to attend networking sessions, seminars, workshops, coaching and mentoring programs organized by incubators and accelerators. Entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, executives, startup founders and business owners, please join us if you want to get help with business basics, participate in networking activities and cofounder mixers, find marketing resources and strategic partner …

Startup California and Startup Bay Area are regions of The Startup America Partnership a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case See www.startupcal.org for more information. 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. GOALS We have three main goals: 1. Provide valuable …

Join the world class Startup Leadership Program, a training program for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who aspire to be exceptional startup CEOs. Startup Leadership Program’s fellows have founded over 300 successful startups in the 6 years since the program’s inception. The Silicon Valley Chapter was launched in 2009 and 60+ fellows have graduated till now. This Meetup is for SLP informational and recruitment events. The 2nd event for the summer is on Wednesday, July 11th!

A support community to connect people to their True, ALL KNOWING Self (Higher Self, Soul).To support others to live their Higher Purpose. Inspired by the teachings of "The ALL KNOWING Diary" by Daniel Rechnitzer

This is a Meetup for international founders who want to connect and share knowledge with venture capitalists, angels, local founders, subject matter experts and the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay community.

Tech Connect This group is for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, tech startups, investors, and small businesses. Tech Connect was designed for the technically minded that believe learning is a life long endeavor. In this day and age, technology and ideas are constantly evolving.  Tech Connect features active experts in their fields who lecture on relevant and useful topics.  Tech Connect's interactive events are tailor made to allow for group networking. Speakers Workshops Pitches Co-founder pairin …

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

If you kitesurf / kiteboard you know it's one of the most addictive sports going. We kiters go to extreme lengths, spend loads of cash, put our personal relationships in peril, and travel ungodly distances in search the right kite experience. Entrepreneurs similarly risk their financial safety, put heavy stress on their personal lives, and travel a long road in search of that world changing opportunity. Kiters and Entrepreneurs, clearly, are cut from the same cloth. Any windy day at 3rd ave reve …

Welcome to Woman, StartUp! You are: a woman, startup entrepreneur & want-trepreneur or potential co-founder material a coder, hacker, geek chick, you name it...you are a technically hot woman. independent, unique, good at what you do, a visionary, or a game changer. You face challenges in the technology world.... Let us guess...you go to lots of networking events, workshops, speaker panels, hand out a lot of business cards...oh yeah!, you have nice evenings shared with other entrepreneurs. …

We're looking for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real tech startups at the hackathons of our DataWeek.co and DeveloperWeek.com conferences! Our hackathons are usually the 'kick-off' events for our giant conferences where we invite dozens of speakers, advisors, and partners to provide coaching and free services for our hackathon teams. You can expect direct coaching from 12+ silicon valley VC's and engineers in Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML 5..... We've …

ASL’s Emerging Business Group supports you through the start-up and growth stages by helping you: - Tackle and move past business problems with proven ideas and resources from ASL personnel and our large professional network. - Gain traction in the market by planning for and securing the financing necessary to fund key initiatives and projects. - Get the most out of your capital by identifying and eliminating operational inefficiencies. - Connect to a peer network of other founders, owners, and …

Fashion Technology (FT) Accelerator is a program in Silicon Valley exclusively dedicated to start-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology. FT Accelerator works with a selected group of companies that are already generating revenue and are typically ready to achieve sustained growth. For pre-revenue start-up there is FT Start-up Showcase, a monthly discussion / demo centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries at the intersection with Technology …

This group is for startup founders and entrepreneurs who love to build, learn and scale successfully. We are holding weekly or bi-weekly after-hours events at UpWest Labs, a startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. We are geared to introduce new ideas, techniques and share knowledge with our community of entrepreneurs.

Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. Another definition: "Serendipity = value creation based on unexpected encounters". This meetup is about helping these happy accidents happen for startup founders. Zappos CEO - Tony Hsieh - says: I think you can create your own luck. The key is to meet as many people as you can and really get to know them. If you're in an environme …

We work closely with smart, creative and insanely hardworking startup founders to help them focus their product’s value proposition, refine their product and pitch to investors and ultimately make personal introductions to help get their companies the resources and funding they need to scale. More info at: www.founderbase.net This is a monthly meet that brings together promising entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and around the world.  Join us for founder’s brunch, interactive panel discussion, o …

Silicon Valley is THE hotbed for hardware startups, so we thought it time to bring a showcase-style Meetup to the South Bay/Peninsula! We're a proud offshoot of the SF Hardware Startup Meetup, but aside from the different locale, we want to emphasize products that are, above all, smart! This means things that think for themselves, use novel materials/design, or otherwise make our world a better, more connected place. This Meetup aims to not only expose you to the newest of products, companies, c …

A group for Stanford Entrepreneurs & Silicon Valley Founders who have a burning desire to grow their Startup & are looking for 1st 100, 1000 & 10,000 customers. Tweets @IgniterSV Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Igniter/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/igniterSV/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4970423 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordIgniter/