Since 2010 LeanLA has helped Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs build successful businesses by learning and practicing Lean Startup techniques. We are smart and driven high tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products that they want. Our startups achieve sucess faster that most because we get out of the building to talk to customers, use agile software development to decrease time to market and leverage continuous deployment to learn as fast as possible.  This is …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with jus …

Are you involved in a startup or want to be? Commonred's Startup Grind was started to help entrepreneurs meet new people face-to-face, and continue to build a lasting relationship with them online after the event. It's a monthly event held in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and New York City and features a range of speakers from founders, to journalists, to investors. More importantly it has the coolest community you've ever seen. Come to our event or go to Commonred.com to meet amazing professiona …

This group is for early stage Start ups looking to find Co-Founders, funding, pitch ideas and most importantly help bring a tech identity to Downtown LA. Right now there is a huge trend on the westside for the tech startup community, leaving a huge void in Downtown LA. Our objective is to have various events including workshops on best practices, hackathons, entrepreneur/investors panels, demo days and open forums with a focus on the tech community. This group is for coders, entrepreneurs, inves …

Start Engine is a rapid accelerator focused on helping Los Angeles-based technology startups build a solid foundation for success in 90 days. Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses. Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not …

SOCAL Business Ties group meetings where Trendsetters, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Start Ups come together to Engage, Network, Mentor, Collaborate, Participate and Innovate. You will meet our contributors who are high achievers and successful in their own right, considered experts in their field of industry. Check out their profiles at www.caypenmag.com/contribute.  Gain access to people who have “been there” and “done that” including venture capital financing, authors, a renowned indus …

We build awesome tech companies in LA. We are looking for cofounders & others to scale our companies. We go to events to learn actionable information to help us scale our startup. We come to Tech Cofounder Dating LA events to connect and scale our tech companies. Twitter: @AaronAbram613 06/07/2012 NOW AVAILABLE! Your User Experience (UX) 5 Guests: Asher Hunt.............Product. UX. Design, Look.io/ Chill Sarah MacKinnon.....Senior UX Designer, eHarmony Ruth Kaufman..........Senior Interact …

The Burbank Hackers Club is a group of hackers who want to hack away and create cool interesting apps using Node.JS. We have several nodejs ongoing projects to choose from, or bring your own for everyone to work on. The goal though, is to have rapid development by having everyone work on a common project and see what can be hacked up in a single night. Hackers Unite!

Welcome to Hackpit, a workspace for Developers, Technologists, & Makers to meet & collaborate on projects.  People arrive at Hackpit to work for a certain period of time on the projects they wish to, in the same room as the people who they need to talk to about their ideas. Hackpit has partnered with StartEngine to provide the space to hack.  StartEngine is a startup accelerator based in Westwood, CA - across the street from UCLA.  Their cutting edge technology combined with comfortable and tech …

Decided to start a health care IT and web 2.0 focused group because, to my knowledge, one does not exit. The purpose of the group will likely evolve over time. Here are some of my initial goals for the group:   1) Provide health care IT professionals and web developers a venue for networking, discussing health care IT trends, and the intersection between health care IT, web 2.0, mobile, apps, and the social web. 2) Be a resource where health care providers can come for health care IT and web/app …

Indie Desk is a coworking space—a middle ground between working out of your loft and renting your own office. More importantly, though, Indie Desk is a community. We want to help creative people get to know others who are going through similar things in life and in business. We're looking for freelancers, startups and anyone else who is looking for a place geared toward doing work in the company of creative people. Because our concept is built around community, we're especially looking for p …

I've thought many times how good it would be to get a group of creative web minds together. Looking for advanced and intermediate internet developers of all kinds, coders, designers, developers, SEO, etc... A good meeting showing each other new technologies, programs and designs. And time to help each other out with puzzling questions and issues. With absolutely no egos... Hopefully the right people might even be able to start some projects together. Web startups can't survive with 1 person! so …

This is a group for folks making video for the web.

This meetup has been organized by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners. Events are intended for company founders or founders-to-be who are looking for intensive, unbiased, arms-length educational sessions pertaining to how to raise capital for a startup, as well as a desire to network with like-minded people. Classes are taught by Jon, a veteran local vc who's backed some of the area's top companies, including Rent.com, Shopzilla and Sandpiper Networks. Ocean Road Partners supports the startup and te …

… For a room of one hundred people we generally see teams between 5-10 people and a total of between 10-15 teams working away on 10-15 new startups.  At after Friday evening people come in early on Saturday and work work work for the rest of the weekend until giving a demo of the newly created startup on Sunday evening. We’ve had teams that were generating revenue on Saturday evening in the past! It’s a great learning experience, great networking, and a lot of fun to roll up your sleeves a …

Are you a Startup? Freelancer? Entrepreneur? Coder? Tired of working alone through the night? We've got you covered. Twice a month, from 7pm - 12am, come to Coloft and work the night away in an inspiring, and creative atmosphere, around like-minded, ambitious people. Who knows what can come out of this... the next billion-dollar idea perhaps?  A $15 cover charge applies. Coloft members get priority registration and pay no cover. Added Bonus: work space, wifi, super awesome people.  p.s. Foll …