Sacramento Entrepreneurs will be a deciding force behind economic growth and future of the region! The Sacramento Alliance of Entrepreneurs is a community for CEOs, Small Business Owners, Business Decision Makers, Startup Founders, MBA students, and Innovators. Our mission is to provide peer-to-peer support, bring forward expert resources and information, and to form a Sacramento Entrepreneurial Community to rival Silicon Valley! Join us today for fun, support, community ... and shared success …

South Bay Entrepreneurs will be a deciding force behind economic growth! The South Bay Alliance of Entrepreneurs is a community for CEOs, Small Business Owners, Business Decision Makers, Startup Founders, MBA students, and Innovators. Our mission is to provide peer-to-peer support, bring forward expert resources and information, and to form a support network for entrepreneurs who are leading the economic future of our nation! Join us today for fun, support, community ... and shared success! …

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

About SVCWireless Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit, non-bias independent professional organization to bridge the technology industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 6000 members and 50 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners. US Mobile Apps and Interne …

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 is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Flume (incubating). Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. Its main goal is to deliver data from applications to Apache Hadoop's HDFS. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. The system is cent …

BIG strives to demystify the video gaming industry for people of color. We assist individuals in evolving from consumers to producers of video games and apps. To accomplish our goals, BIG provides networking, outreach, mentoring, and entrepreneurship guidance to professionals and students.

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 …

East Bay Technology Executives (EBTE) has been formed to take advantage of and leverage our common East Bay location and unique cultural attributes. 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, et …

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 …

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

The startupPerColator Series is dedicated to the startup community. Our dynamic and interactive seminar series is a forum for entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the startup ecosystem to learn business and legal best practices, build their networks and grow their businesses. We host the series in our Palo Alto or San Francisco offices, and participants will be offered a savory complimentary breakfast, lunch or evening hors d'oeuvres.

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 …

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 …

Together Berkeley and Emeryville represent a dynamic center for discovery and manufacturing in biosciences. A significant concentration of life science companies make their home in our midst.  We want to increase the connectivity among existing companies -- and create a vibrant, welcoming community for new Bioscience startups and incubators.

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

This group promotes the development of technology based business in the greater Stockton, California Area. It will focus on the following activities: 1) Supporting technology start-ups. 2) Expanding the use of technology at existing Stockton area businesses. 3) Helping Stockton area businesses show case their technology research and development. 4) Supporting and promoting Stockton area education programs focused on science and technology.

This group extends hospitality to foreign nationals visiting the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area to learn about entrepreneurship and startup companies. WB, B-1, F-1 OPT and J-1 (without 2-year restriction) nonimmigrants are highly encouraged to participate.

Help with all aspects of the startup process. Brainstorm with others. Work on pitches, listen to others. Help with funding & more.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

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 …

This group is for COEPians who are interested in entrepreneurship. As a COEPian if you want to network with other COEPians in Silicon Valley to learn, share, help, be helped, bounce ideas, form founding teams etc, this is the group. We plan to meet periodically in a casual environment to accomplish the above.

For all committed to professional growth and embracing new exciting tools and skills. You are curious, authentic and moved to elevate not only yourself but those around you. Are you ready to swing full out to find new levels of success?

Feeling Arranging is a primitive form of Shamanism, which is nature based and very ancient. It’s about finding our original self through arranging our feelings. This group is for the adventurous and the fearless. Feeling Arranging is uniquely different from the shamanism and healing methods we know such as journeying, soul retrieval and meditation. We use darkness as a positive force to heal ourselves and to connect with our ancestors and nature. Like a seed needs a dark place to incubate before …

“In the Future Everything Will Be A Cafe" ! 1. Universities will become Cafes (virtual classes and the high price of an education) 2. Book Stores have become Cafes(Ebooks are coming of age-you can keep your library in your pocket) 3. Cafes will Displace Most Retail Shops (you can shop from the comfort of a Cafe, while avoiding crowds, parking, bad service, etc on Amazon.Com). 4. Offices Become Cafes Again (with the exception of Yahoo employees, notice all of the empty cubicles in most offices?) …

Bridging the French & US Entrepreneurs' communities by organizing events and technology showcases.