A Webmission is a delegation of Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurs that travel abroad to promote their companies and to network, taking advantage of an international Internet/Tech event and the secondary happenings around it. Taking advantage of this year's Google I/0 event (19-20/05), We are organizing a new Webmission for Belgian entrepreneurs, journalists bloggers and Internet, mobile and tech enthusiasts, interested in promoting themselves in the US markets. This is a great opportunity …

Bringing designers + geeks together to talk shop, startups, and do some knowledge sharing. All types of designers + geeks welcome. Designers + Geeks Newsletter All Designers + Geeks events, news, and giveaways are announced through our newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: Join The Designers + Geeks Newsletter We hate spam, and will only use your contact info for Designers + Geeks news. Connect with us on Twitter & Facebook: @DesignersGeeks Facebook Page

TechCentralSF is San Francisco’s exclusive online directory resource and collaborative community for High Tech, Biotech, and Cleantech with over 1,000 start-up companies and established innovators making breakthroughs across San Francisco. TechCentralSF is a B2B exchange to support entrepreneurs, startups & the SF tech ecosystem. TCSF brings together the hottest startups and entrepreneurs through popular events such as the startup crawl, the startup mixer, and visionary leadership panel discussi …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

Pylons Project technologies powers many important and varied web sites that call the bay area their birth place. The python web frameworks pyramid, pylons, groundhog and turbogears all are stewarded by the Pylons Project Community. This group exist to help the folks in the bay area who build these sites share their experiences, knowledge, and love of beer as well as to help other learn how they can benefit from the only python web framework unafraid of admitting it's passion for Egyptology and I …

Traditional marketing sucks! No budget, no resources, just pure creativity and innovation is what startup marketing is all about. You love it. You thrive on it. Join the SF startup marketing meetup group and share your successes (and failures), how you executed them and what you learned with the group. Each meetup we'll pick a new topic and have marketers present their stories. Topics might include acquiring customers, demand creation, blogging, analytics and measuring marketing effectiveness, s …

The Lean Startup Machine is a weekend-long startup competition that conforms to Lean Startup principles, a method of using customer feedback to rapidly iterate your product to reach product/market fit. http://theleanstartupmachine.com/ The Lean Startup Machine SF Meetup Group is an official extension of #LSMSF 2011, created in order to keep the energy going and to support a network of people in the Bay Area who are actively working on Lean Startup principles. We hold semi-regular gatherings to s …

San Francisco Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch. The leadership team is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch. Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment. Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the San Francisco, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to prac …

A meeting of the minds for the startup founders and engineers leveraging Scala to build great startups. Scala allows for distributed data processing and type safe web development, making it possible to build a whole startup in a type safe, functional, test-driven way. Let's discuss how we do it!

We connect startup entrepreneurs with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors,  and learn how to build startups from successful entrepreneurs. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our entrepreneur community …

RainMaker poker is for entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, and anyone else involved in or interested in startups to come together, play poker and meet people. We plan to hold Poker games in San Francisco and around the Bay Area, and while they are primarily about playing poker and having fun, we plan to only allow founders of tech businesses and people with tech related skills to attend, so it should be a wicked networking opportunity too. If you are looking to hire someone, or if you are tryin …

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on personal finance or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups. To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services. Although we welcome everyone there is not a …

ARE YOU A STARTUP / SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR IN PALO ALTO & SAN FRANCISCO LOOKING FOR FUNDING? MEETUP WITH ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS AND LEARN WHAT BUSINESS CROWDFUNDING CAN DO FOR YOUR COMPANY. Hello, As entrepreneurs, we know how hard it is to raise funds for a Startup or small business. Too often it becomes a full-time job, distracting us from running and growing our business. This meetup will hold events in SF to bring founders and investors in the same room and help them get ready to …

Startup California and Startup Bay Area are regions of The Startup America Partnership a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case See www.startupcal.org for more information. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game. GOALS We have three main goals: 1. Provide valuable …

Find other individuals, startups, or existing companies to collaborate with on topics and activities important to you or your business. Collaborate on existing topics, or list your own topic to collaborate on. There is a monthly mixer on the first Wednesday of each month beginning in May 2013. Collaboration is 50% social so the meetups are in a social, informal environment. The purpose of the meetings are: a) To get to know other members and what they are working on. b) As a planned meeting plac …

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!

This meetup is to network and connect local talented and skilled web developers who like to work on side projects (on nights and weekend basis from home) and make a few extra bucks, with companies and startups in need of talents that can get things done for and willing to work on their own hours for a slightly reduced rate. So you are welcome to join if: 1) You are a sharp/seasoned web developer with any of the following skills: - PHP - Python - HTML/CSS/Javascript/JQuery - Web Design - Etc …

We're looking for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real tech startups at the hackathons of our DataWeek.co and DeveloperWeek.com conferences! Our hackathons are usually the 'kick-off' events for our giant conferences where we invite dozens of speakers, advisors, and partners to provide coaching and free services for our hackathon teams. You can expect direct coaching from 12+ silicon valley VC's and engineers in Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML 5..... We've …

Calling all Marketers working in startups in San Francisco. Let's get together and share our experiences while drinking a cold beer!

The Elegant Ruby Web Framework: Padrino. This group is for anyone interested in Padrino or already uses Padrino on a regular basis. http://www.padrinorb.com/

Do you have start-up idea, side-project, or just a hobby, and are having problems finding the time to turn it from just a concept into reality? The idea of impetus afternoons is to give you a push to do the work required to turn it your idea into something more concrete. We will get together in a coffee shop for a few hours on a weekend and actually hold our collective noses to the grind stone so we can actually make some progress on our side projects, whatever they may be. I am a software engin …

Are you a solo-consultant or running a consulting firm that provides engineering or design in the San Francisco area? Or are you an entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Join our community of people in the area helping to build products and make ideas into reality. Our meetup welcomes engineers and designers from all disciplines and the businesses that support them such as product-based startups and other firms who write custom software. We'll have regular even …

The "Verticalize your Startup" meetup group is dedicated to hosting events in San Francisco around tech startups in 30+ industry verticals. These industry-specific tech startups will be invited to come together once a year for the Verticalize conference & expo - and meetup group members will get special perks! Here's a complete list of industry verticals we organize around: http://verticalize.me/2013/verticals/ All Verticalize group members will get free expo passes to Verticalize 2013 and big d …

We're a group of developers originally from Seattle doing a startup based in San Francisco. San Francisco brings a lot of diversity , culture and new ideas. We'd love to meet up with folks interested in startups, business, technology who are new to the area and may be missing home as well.

Potrero Hill startups! PubNub wants to meet you! Our neighborhood is expanding with new start ups at a rapid rate. Let's connect over everyone's favorite activity...DRINKING! Of course, it's not all about the drinking. It mostly is, but it's a bit early in the relationship to reveal just how fond we are of imbibing in potent potables. Although, I suppose the cat's out of the bag now. Join us as we get to know our neighboring companies and local bars!

There are lots of developer skill building talks/events etc but not enough meetups for Product Managers to get together and share lessons learned, tools, processes, tips/tricks etc. That is what this group is for. A way for tech/web/startup Product Managers to get together and hang out with other PMs, to learn, share, and network.

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.