This is a safe environment to learn about lean startup execution techniques  based on peer exchange. Most startups fail not because they fail to execute and build their product, but because they fail to build a viable business around it. Startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Customer development and lean startup help us do exactly this. Lean startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning tho …

... Je hebt een mooi idee en je krijgt positieve reacties. Als ondernemer wil je er ook wat mee doen; dus spelen met je businessmodel en er een business van maken. De vraag is hoe? "The Lean Startup" van Eric Ries geeft richting om verder te gaan, hoe je het kunt aanpakken. Het boek is de theorie ... nu de praktijk ... en die is lastiger dan verwacht. Lean Startup Zwolle wil niet alleen praten over Lean Startup methodes, maar er actief mee aan de slag. Geen groep voor Wantrepreneurs, maar voor E …

The Utrecht startups Meetup group is where we try to gather everyone affiliated with or interest in the Utrecht startup community. We host monthly Utrecht startup meetups, you are welcome to join and visit our meetups. Through our events we hope to contribute towards establishing a real community in Utrecht too. If you help us in making sure everyone from the Utrecht startup scene joins this group, we'll be able to map the community and connect those in need.

The purpose of this group is to spread some basic financial concepts to the startup community in Belgium. This will happen through Meetup's with: Presentations Case-studies Workshops No financial knowledge is required to join. Just bring your own questions to this group and we will answer them together, or point you in the right (financial) direction. Martin & Xavier P.S. Just for the record, we are not accountants, nor bookkeepers.

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is an amazing opportunity to connect with other passionate and skilled individuals, and perhaps even find a co-founder or two to transform your idea into reality. Check out our website  http://amsterdam.startupweekend.org/ for more info.

What is TechMeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Meeting for internet and media entrepreneurs for the Euregio.

We love to talk about fashion startups & the future of fashion. Can we predict fashion trends? What are the possibilities of 3D printing? Join the group and get to know when our first meetup is being held. Wish to talk, sponsor or co-organize meetups? Send a message to René. http://www.fashiontechamsterdam.com/

Open Coffee Amsterdam is a monthly event held at the Bovendebalie coworking space. It's an informal meetup for web enthusiasts: entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in entrepreneurship. Open Coffee is held every 1st Thursday of the month at 9:30am in De Balie at the Leidseplein. Start the day with a cup of coffee before going to work. You just might meet some interesting folks.

Open Coffee Club is an informal meeting in a friendly setting, where starters, entrepreneurs and investors can get to know each other over a cup of coffee (or a beer). Expand your network to create alliances, exchange ideas, discuss business ideas and much more! No slides, no conferences, just conversations. Be cool. Organized by @ramonsuarez

An active community of innovative entrepeneurs, developers and designers. Join us and meet like-minded people. Go to www.utrechtinc.nl and read more about our incubation program and network. Go to www.pluginc.nl and read more about our coworking space for developers and designers.

This is a group to exchange ideas on technology, funding, business models and adoption around Linked Data knowledge visualizations and discovery as the next thing beyond traditional business analytics and intelligence. First focus on healthcare and life sciences but open to engage in other industries! Looking for passionnate and engaged members willing to share lessons learned and demonstrate showcases.

This is a group for WordPress developers, webmasters and users. The goal is to meet up and have talks on diverse topics about WordPress, such as development, design, to business and more. And of course meet great people and have fun. The aim is to meet at least once a month.

We'll be having some drinks the day before Capital On Stage. It's open to everyone, so you don't need a ticket for the conference to attend the Tuesday night drinks.

Clojure is an exciting programming language for the JVM. Whether you are a highly skilled functional programmer or just starting to learn the ropes and wanting to check out the waters, you are more than welcome to join us in: - Teaching each other Clojure - Presenting ongoing work and new technologies/libraries - Hacking on our own Open Source projects (Dojo sessions) - Looking for Clojure startup opportunities - Drinking a couple of beers! Warning: Once you have seen the true power of Lisp …

For anyone interested in Node.js we like to get you all together and share each other's experiences. We plan to have 1 or 2 short presentations every meetup, which will range from introductions to Node, to the philosophy of/behind Node, and actual companies/startups that use Node.js. Feel free to come, whether you're a Node.js veteran with decades of javascript experience or just have an interest to see what happens in Node.js land. And yes, beers will be available.

Launchdesk organizes drinks and lectures for startups, freelancers, designers, marketeers and developers. We aim to connect everyone that rents a desk at one of our amazing offices, but everyone is welcome to join!

I created this group to help business owners to network together and share quality referrals while having the pleasure of making new friends, sharing their experience. The pourpose is not only to market our services or/and products but also improve together the sales and marketing methods, so we can see our businesse's grow faster. Join us and feel the happines of this new experience of business networking ! I wish you all the best, Alma Mushi E-mail: am@netbbs-grop.com Mobile: +32 471/38 88 24 …

Open Coffee events are regular informal meet-ups for entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in entrepreneurship - most of the time with an online component. OpenCoffee Meetup Den Haag is scheduled every 1st Wednesday of the month.  Meeting language is Dutch and/or English. The idea is that there is one place and time where people can have a coffee before going to work and might meet some interesting folks - sometimes there's a Meetup topic and a speaker, but networking with people at the …

/dev/haag is a monthly gathering of like-minded programmers, designers, journalist and others who share an interest in both technology and design. We try to keep things open and free format so we organize a few workshops ourselves and leave the rest open for attendees to fill in (like a BarCamp).

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

In this group we play games to learn UX principles. Want to know more about UX (User eXperience)? Want a feel for what we, 'ux people', do? In this group, we will learn the specific mindset and skillset of UX by playing games. We play games to learn UX principles and learn games to improve our UX work. You'll experience a hands-on, fun, creative workshop in which you will learn one of the many ux principles (Quality through Quantity, Everything lives in a context, Feedback is crucial, etc.). Eve …