The goal of this meetup group is to develop an interesting community of web publishers Join this group if you like: Publishing websites (blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) Web programming Tech meetups Startups

The Berkeley Startup Cluster is a resource for growing, innovative companies and budding entrepreneurs in Berkeley. Looking for connections to mentors, networking opportunities, early stage investors, partners or just cool tech companies close to the UC Berkeley campus? Join us to get to know your neighbors and stay connected!

This Meetup Group is about the Lean Startup Methodology developed by Eric Ries. It is centered on the implementation of this methodology to the Internet startups where participants work. Participants will be able to share their successes and difficulties of implementation with the group so as to create a learning process. We will focus more on tools than concepts, and on practice than on theory, as our interest is in the immediate implementation of these tools in our startups and the lessons lea …

Join the world class Startup Leadership Program, a training program for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who aspire to be exceptional startup CEOs. Startup Leadership Program’s fellows have founded over 300 successful startups in the 6 years since the program’s inception. The Silicon Valley Chapter was launched in 2009 and 60+ fellows have graduated till now. This Meetup is for SLP informational and recruitment events. The 2nd event for the summer is on Wednesday, July 11th!

Startups working on cool stuff and not-so-cool stuff for families, kids, moms, dads, parents, grandparents..... co-hosted by ActivityHero and 500 Startups Monthly meetups with panel discussions and networking.

Each month we will have a startup engineer or entrepreneur share technology tips, and tricks that helped build their business. This is a highly technical group and in the past we covered topics such as "Scaling PInterest", "Introduction to Data Science", "Making Mobile Development Less Painfull", .... Come join the group and learn about how we build technology startups here in Silicon Valley.

Tri-valley group to discuss funding, technology, marketing ideas related to high technology startups. Looking for people with ideas, experience who have started or looking to start up a high tech business.

Bring Your Site, Improve Your Design Are you building a website without a designer? Do you feel like there's something wrong, but can't quite put your finger on it? Are you a designer looking for some feedback? No matter how much time you’ve put into your website, chances are it could still benefit from a designer’s “fresh pair of eyes”. We’ll review your website and make suggestions for improvement. We’ll go through examples and analyze the content, typography, look and feel, accessability, etc …

Apparently there are several dozen internet and software startups in downtown San Mateo. This is a group for techy startupers who see each other in line at Pancho Villa and think "I wonder what that guy does?" http://www.quora.com/What-startups-are-located-in-San-Mateo We'll do tech talks, lightning talks and most importantly, have a beer! Men, women, devs, sys admins, and even you business people are welcome. Enjoy the fact that for once, we don't have to get on 101 to go to a meetup. Huzzah!

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups, SV's largest entrepreneurs & Startup community From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, Angels, Investors, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, HTML5 , Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entre …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Angel Launch (which has been active in LA for two years attracting hundreds of members) now launches in the SF Bay area. We are designed to connect startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners to investors for early and mid stage funding.  We produce our own events, and also promote free events from our partners.  With the large number of startups competing for funds, its difficult to raise funds and increase brand awareness to get the attention of potential funders. Many investors are look …

Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralightstartu …

The Startup Alliance is a peer group for active startup founders and CxOs committed to helping each other maximize their business success. We share information and ideas in face to face events and online. We care about a variety of topics including: Founding teams Business structure and capital formation Strategy, business and financial models Recruiting, benefits and retention Sales, marketing, business development Intellectual property and licensing Aligning business goals with founder goals …

We work closely with smart, creative and insanely hardworking startup founders to help them focus their product’s value proposition, refine their product and pitch to investors and ultimately make personal introductions to help get their companies the resources and funding they need to scale. More info at: www.founderbase.net This is a monthly meet that brings together promising entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and around the world.  Join us for founder’s brunch, interactive panel discussion, o …

"Are you a techie with a passion to work on new ideas/startups ?" Do you wish to have a meetup to connect with other like-minded techies but found that the existing meetup groups are too chaotic to let you meet the right people?" Do you have an idea that you would like to find people passionate to work on? The goal of this group is to help developers and  ideators connect together to work on early stages of developing an idea/creating mockups etc. You can expect to make new friends, brainstorm a …

Gartner predicts that by end of 2013, number of people who access the web through a mobile device will exceed the ones using a PC. In this environment, it makes sense to design your applications and plan your new web based business first for mobile devices and then adapt that to the web, rather than the other way round. This group is for Entrepreneurs, Developers, Product managers/ Product Designers and others involved in planning, designing, implementing, selling or marketing Mobile Applicatio …

Silicon Barn is not an incubator, accelerator, co-working facility, etc. Silicon Barn is something new. It is a Startup Launcher. Silicon Barn is dedicated to building Startups. A lot of entrepreneurs have a problem finding a technical co-founder.  A good Tech co-founder has 10 job offers. The best Techies are not qualified to determine the viability of your idea if they do not know the industry. The Entrepreneur is asking the Techie to work without pay based on a plan. The Entrepreneur may not …

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

Located in Fremont, weibel area. Specially for students who want to start a business based on cool ideas that change the world or at least change the way we accomplish something today. Though focused on students - everybody is welcome to join.

Founders helping Founders About Let's get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them. This group focuses on issues that technology startup entrepreneurs run into when building the startup. We will meet at HackerDojo or Microsoft Bizspark labs in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. Events include brown bag lunch sessions, pitching events and other startup related events. Brown Bag Lunch sessions These are group discussion sessions with a small numb …

We work under the principles that there are three key elements to start with that will create a successful startup: good people, a product the market actually wants, and money (either by spending as little money as possible or having access to enough money to it see through to customer interaction). Startups that fail at any one of these three key elements will likely fail. But all three are doable. And that’s what makes startups so exciting – they may be hard but they are doable. Cofounder Clu …

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.

A group for Stanford entrepreneurs & Silicon Valley founders who have a burning desire to grow their Startup. Join us at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordIgniter/ Tweets at : http://www.twitter.com/igniterSV/ LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4970423 Website: http://www.IgniterSV.com/ (coming soon)

This Meetup is for those who have a strong interest in new technology and its application either for profit or the sake of interest in the innovations coming our way. Innovators, Discoverers, Tinkerers, Experimenters and those who want to do more than just consume technology are the backbone of progress in our world. From Android to Zip Cars, 3D Printing to the newest Web Services, Analytics to the X Prize, there is a lot happening around us that is significant, interesting and often profitable …

This is a group for professionals in the Bay Area who are involved with, or are otherwise interested in, Mergers & Acquisitions and corporate law.  This group is also an ideal venue for startup founders to learn more about corporate law applicable to the operation of their businesses and how M&A exits work. Each session will begin with a presentation highlighting cutting-edge issues from a legal, financial and technical perspective, followed by a Q&A session and then networking.  Food and bevera …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. 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 ico …