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?

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 …

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.

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. We bring the San Francisco lean startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. What works? What doesn't? Is lean just a buzzword? Or can it really help build businesses? * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

Non-profit Festivals & Events covering tech challenges with emphasis on artistic expression and creativity. Bringing together independent artists, coders, game developers, creators, performers and musicians celebrating Art and Technology. CODAME exists to incubate and support artists, technologists and designers that push the boundaries of hardware, software, and physical/digital mediums. At the intersection of ART+TECH, CODAME is accelerating the way we interpret and express our rapidly changin …

*Join our Google Group to participate in discussions in between events!* Artup is a Bay Area community-powered incubator for forward-looking work stationed at the intersection of contemporary art and digital technology. Welcoming artists of all disciplines, Artup provides a foundation for a consistent and engaging stream of high quality work for and by curious aesthetes throughout the Bay Area. The Bay Area is technological ground zero. Bay Area residents are the first to experience the impact …

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.

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.

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 bay area is full of the entrepreneurial spirit and here in San Francisco we thrive! The goals of this group are to….. Inspire other moms to pursue their business ideas and offer suggestions. Support other moms by providing resources, referrals etc. Need help? Pitch your idea! Achieve help other moms to make their goals/dreams a reality. Who should attend: Aspiring and accomplished mom-preneurs who are looking to meet like-minded mamas! This is a MOM only group for issues do arise about mothe …

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.

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 …

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

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.

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 …

The Liminal Art Salon meetup group is a forum for incubating authentic expression. Its purpose is to guide, stimulate and inspire artists and seekers to renew the spirit and power of true, authentic creative expression. Liminal literally means "threshold". To create from a liminal state is to cross the threshold between everyday reality and the invisible realms of supra rational consciousness. We aim to generate, brainstorm and cultivate ideas, imaginings, creations, events and collaborations. O …

Hello and welcome to the official Meetup home of Thirty Day Challenge for San Francisco! This is the 5th year of the Challenge, and the buzz is bigger than ever, and this year should be the best year yet. This group has been formed to create actual face-to-face gatherings for all the enthusiastic members of Thirty Day Challenges. Veterans and those new to the challenge are welcome. We wanted to set up this meetup group as a way for 30DC folks to meet in person, share ideas, and form teams. …

Meetup to discuss starting up and running small businesses - exchange ideas, network

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 …

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 …