[UPDATE] This meetup is now call Startup Ecology and is dedicated to sharing insights and training for entrepreneurs and those of you wit startups. [UPDATE] Active Startup is under new leadership and will be rolling out an all new series of meetups for this community. If you want to participate in the new administration please contact the organizer. See you soon!

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 …

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.caypen.com. Gain access to people who have “been there” and “done that” including venture capital financing, authors, a renowned industrial designer, an i …

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 …

Tech events for startups in the 805. Our first few events have been amazing, and hope you join us for more.

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.

Los Angeles Startup Pitch Night focuses on providing monthly opportunities for you to practice, refine, and perfect your startup pitches.  We also provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Los Angeles, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. Los Angeles Startup Pitch Night's events are run by a leadership team that works to find the meeting venues and plan out and execute all the Meetup events.  Our mission is to be known as the p …

StartupDemo is a monthly event where startups gather to demo their latest and greatest thing.

We offer classes and workshops specifically for company founders or founders-to-be who are looking for comprehensive, unbiased instruction and information pertaining to how to raise startup capital. The content is based on knowledge and insights provided by 25 years of local startup investment experience. The classes are taught by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners, a local vc veteran who's backed some of the area's top companies, including Rent.com, Shopzilla and Sandpiper Networks. Jon's also an …

Downtown LA Startups is a group dedicated to bringing downtown Los Angeles entrepreneurs, start-ups, and existing small business owners together to network and to support one another.  Having been someone who started my own business in an apartment in downtown, there is difficulty in finding support and networking opportunities for downtown LAers as we're usually transplanted here from elsewhere with the hopes and dreams of making it big in the big city. We aim to host events that benefit start- …

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!

San Fernando Valley is still considered Los Angeles, but being as LA is so big, it would be great to have regular meetups with local entrepreneurs, startups, non profits, small businesses, investors, or anyone who's ever had a great idea and can benefit from the local community by sharing. Anything tech related or ways to improve lives in general are welcome to join.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Los Angeles Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Los Angeles serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complimen …

PrestaShop is an Open-source e-commerce software dedicated to innovative technology and providing online success for merchants. We always want to grow our community and reach out to e-commerce lovers. We are looking to connect with PrestaShop users, web developers, web designers, open-source advocates, start-ups, and technology organizations. We welcome all individuals interested in providing suggestions, encouragement, or simply have questions about e-commerce. It is our goal to educate, spark …

A group of seasoned entrepreneurs and leaders from various Santa Barbara and California organizations have banded together to form the Startup California Santa Barbara Region! Startup Santa Barbara and Startup California are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. It's also backed by the Case Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young com …

Are you involved in creating, co-founding, or funding a tech/online/mobile startup in the South Bay (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance, El Segundo, Westchester, Gardena, Hawthorne, San Pedro, Lawndale, Carson, Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes)? This group exists to put people together people who are driving new businesses and ideas, and can help each other. People who should join? Entrepreneurs, investors, programmers, business development experts, marketers …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Santa Monica Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Santa Monica serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complim …

Los Angeles continues to be a hotbed of startups and new businesses in California. There's no doubt that Silicon Beach has a vibrant community of startup resources -- everything from coworking spaces to Venture Capitalists to meetups, events, and groups catered to helping Startups grow and thrive. There's also a growing force of people on the eastside of Los Angeles that are hungry for these same resources but wanting it a little closer to home. We are a startup ourselves and have benefited from …

Are you a a tech startup founder? Let's organize events to help each other crowdsource tasks that founders can't do alone. How about user-generated content writing parties? Market research events where everyone brings 25 copies of a survey for the group to fill out? Usability/UX testing demo days, where we take turns critiquing each other's apps? The possibilities are endless. We're all in the same boat, so we might as well help each other succeed.

Hello, This group is meant to be a community for members where they can find a team and resources for their startups and creative projects. And a place for investors and co-founders who are seeking to be a part of some great start-ups. If you are an entrepreneur with an aspiring startup please join us. We invite business investors, and people who need a co-founder or a co-founder seeking to join someone. We are also seeking marketing, advertising and public relations specialists who want to be a …

This is a group for anyone interested in a fun meet up to chat about web technology, web start ups, & basically everything new in development & incubating a web based organization. Engaging discussion & drinking is not required but strongly encouraged!

Interested in startups but don't know where to start? Let us help you navigate the tech scene and introduce you to entrepreneurs attempting to change the world. Our free events include "Intro to the LA Startup Community" and "Fireside chats" with some of most well respected CEOs in LA, both of which are followed by drinks and networking

This Meetup group is intended to help begin assemble a private collaborative of the best internet marketers, entrepreneurs, and web designers & developers. This project is a select group that will become limited to the most exceptionally talented and committed members. The mission is to see how far the online marketing world can be pushed and what can be accomplished. It doesn't matter if you're black hat, white hat, old school, or new school...if you can contribute to helping push these boundar …

"Your personal tour guide to the LA tech & startup community!" www.SiliconBeachLA.com Also at home at the main community site:  http://siliconbeachla.com/community-3/groups/meetup-silicon-beach-la/

Are you interested in meeting VC’s, Founders, Models, artists, Leaders etc in a social and cultural atmosphere where everyone is not pitching them? Are you interested in making connections with the startup scene in SF as well as become a connection in LA for the startup scene in SF? Then, please join Startup Mind SF-West LA Chapter. The following are the links to the startup and social networking meetups we organize in SF: www.startupclubUS.com and http://www.meetup.com/SocialStartup

This group is Greentech Live/LA and covers all of California until new groups are formed. How it all works 'Greentech Live/LA' is now forming our core group of 100 GX3 ( Greentech Gapathon Group ) Leaders and Members that will be provided with valuable training and guidance from our GX3 Team to research, analyze and provide information to the group about Funders and Founders on Finding & Filling the Funding Gaps that exist in our industry. ( More details coming soon ) GX3 Members and Leaders wil …

This networking group is for small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs who are looking to expand their network, find possible partners or service providers and grow their business. Although we're primarily located in Burbank, we're open to members joining from any surrounding city, such as Glendale and Pasadena. Come join us and meet some tech savvy individuals to help your small business or startup grow. We currently only allow one service provider per category except in the area of startup …

This is group for anyone interested in collaborative innovation, new venture development and project management.  We will learn how to use the INNOVATEstudio.com application and have experts in agile project management, software development, product design, startup financing and other topics of interest speak to the group.