… To create a foundation of shared experience, membership is open to people living in who live in the Bay Area's 510- and 925- area codes...and are current or former: officer-level (VP or more senior) executives and entrepreneurs/founders from technology companies of all types (hardware/software, communications, digital media, Internet, cleantech, etc.) partners in technology-oriented VC firms partners in technology-oriented accelerators and incubators technology transfer executives EBTE gatheri …

Evolvers are hope fiends and utopian pragmatists. We see the creative chaos of this time as a great gift and opportunity to rethink, reconnect, and reinvent. Evolvers appreciate pristine mountains, open source economics, and the precocious laughter of small children. Evolvers belong to the regenerative culture of the future, being born here and now. As part of the Evolver Social Movement, the Spores serve as hubs of cultural incubation and environmental activation that bring together diverse ind …

"Ahead of the Fashion" (AF) is an accelerator program for technology start-ups in the consumer, fashion, and retail industries. For more information, please visit www.afaccelerator.com. Each month, AF gathers entrepreneurs, investors, excutives, and professionals who share the same passion and interest for technology, consumer goods, fashion, and retail. Its primary goal is to secure business and technology partnerships, launch customers who can help companies gain initial market traction, and e …

The Next Level Up: Bobby Fishkin and David Hodgson have been chatting, and have discovered that there are only 24 hours in the day. We have therefore come to a fresh hypothesis as how to meet two objectives. The first objective is that an abundance of humanizing dialogue with diverse fascinating social entrepreneurs, visionaries, futurists, revolutionaries, empathetic humanizers, socially responsible business incubators, social intrapreneurs, culture hackers, social innovation diffusion speciali …

This Group is for people who want to make bring the the Open Technologies available in the Mkt, along with other to the table and create applications targeting Social, Casual, Online Apps for both WEB and DEVICES together... Open, Free & other Technologies like: - Google CODE - Android - Chromium - Android - iPhone OS - Microsoft technologies Social Platforms: - Facebook - Web - Android & Chrome Mkt place - Windows Mkt place - iPhone & iPad Mktplace - Kindle Mkt place - Devices: - iPhone, iPa …

Transmedia SF is a network of SF Bay Area media and start-up creatives who come together to develop our own projects, to promote and educate the world about transmedia storytelling, and to make San Francisco a center for transmedia production and education. San Francisco is a natural hub for transmedia since it boasts robust creative, technical, media and education communities. Our vision is to create the SF ASIS – San Francisco Agency, Studio, Incubator, Salon – that brings together media, ad a …

Build a successful startup by learning from the experience of other lean startups. Every other month we invite a Lean Startup expert to come speak to the group at UCSF. Past speakers include Eric Ries, Steve Blank and David Weekly. After the talk we stay for drinks and discussion. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

… A sort of Internet Marketing Incubator. The possibilities are boundless. Also, we were one of the few Meetups worldwide to be able to have Ed Dale visit and spend time with our members. If all goes well, I think we can get him back again. :-) One last thing... be sure to keep up with the 30DC Daily Lessons. Let the FUN begin! Cheers, Craig Eubanks P.S. If for some reason you find your way to this group, and you have No Idea what the Thirty Day Challenge is about... I sugges …

It's a place for Chinese entrepreneurs in Bay area to get inspired, get connected, and have fun together. All the meetups will be in Chinese :) Please take a minute to participate in our polls at http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Chinese-Entrepreneurs/polls/. Let's have fun and make things happen together! We are always looking for quality speakers for our events. If you are interested in speaking, please contact us with the following information: brief description of your topic, your background(yo …

Northern Calif. branch of very successful, 25 year old business incubation club with Multi Billion $$ track record!!

This is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Sqoop (incubating).   Sqoop is a system designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. You can use Sqoop to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational data …