The Boston BizSpark Meetup group brings fellow Microsoft® BizSpark™startups and other startups interested in the BizSpark™program together to connect, share ideas, and grow together. We also invite and welcome startup investors to join us, make contacts, and share ideas a well. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

This is a group that thinks technology can do a lot to address the challenges in our food system. We want to come together to share ideas about how we could leverage web-based tools to facilitate conversations about food, make information about food easily available, inspire broad interest in healthier food systems, and design products that make it easier to find healthy food.

Meet other Boston/Cambridge members interested in business model innovation. Whether you're an absolute beginner learning the ropes or a business tycoon with the next billion dollar startup, you are welcome to come out to exchange ideas, network with each other, learn, and have a good time.

Are you looking to join or begin working at a start up? Come have a drink and tell us about it. This Meetup is primarily about networking in the start-up world of Boston.

We are engineers, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about fitness. It doesn't matter if you are in-shape, out-of-shape, or somewhere in between, if you are interested in physical health and love technology, this group is for you. Our hope is to bring together the development community in a completely new way with group exercise sessions, runs, bike rides, etc. Some events will be geared more towards coding, while others will be simple runs along the Charles (just as an …

So you had a good exit or founded a company and sold it and you're successful....Now you're working on the next BIG thing and people call you a serial entrepreneur.  The problem is that you are not sure what is the next project to start.  You've been jumping from one idea to another and can't focus?   The goal of this group is either to find that "cure"for you, (and for each other)  or set ourselves onto the right track and help focus on our dream project/company!

The Boston Lean IT / Limited WIP Society is a local forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying the Kanban Method and Lean Thinking to IT processes, including (but not limited to) software development, maintenance, and support. Lean Thinking can help IT teams, large or small, become more effective and productive. The Kanban Method has its genesis in Toyota's manufacturing processes, and was pioneered by David J. Anderson as a flow-based system for software engineering projects & operatio …

Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Cambridge, MA to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your executive summary before we'll even talk to you". A place to find opportunities. Where and when is it? Held every Wed morning from 8:30a-10:30am at Voltage Coffee, 3rd St, Cambridge, MA http://www.yelp. …

This is your chance to prototype your ideas before going to VCs or for seed funding. We all have dream applications that need machine learning and predictive analytics. We can hack those app. using available machine learning APIs (from Microsoft, Google, BigML, BPA EyeQ, and so on). No need to learn those complicated math or gymnastics of matrices. This is also your way to find a co-founder, good developers, and some good feedback. By the way, investors are also welcome; coding is good for our …

Would you like more 'warm' referrals for your business? Welcome to the Charles River Professionals BNI group. We are a group of business professionals in the western suburban Boston area who get together weekly to find referrals for each other. In a enjoyable, non-competitive environment we get to know each other and learn to serve as informal sales teams for each other's businesses. If each member knows 200 people then being in our group of 25 people expands your referral pool to 5000! Currentl …

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

Meetup with other local people who are interested in Rich Internet Applications (RIA) development. Gather and discuss designing and building Rich Internet Applications using jQuery from small to large scale web and mobile applications.

Calling all Needham techies (and those of us that aren't technical at all but love supporting tech startups and the innovation economy). We are organizing this meetup to network and celebrate all the innovations being created by our neighbors in Needham.

Part of the global TechAviv family (http://www.techaviv.com), TechAviv MA is a local gathering of Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs, executives and investors that meet monthly to showcase, discuss and help fellow Israeli startups. Each month three companies get 5 minutes to demo their products, followed by bi-directional Q&A with the group. Casual networking happens before and after the demos. Our mission is to help Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs succeed worldwide by sharing our collective experience …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

The Boston Quantified Self Meetup (@QSboston) is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. It's a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data …

You. A VC. Entrepreneurial peers. A free-flow discussion on raising funding and growing your tech./life-sciences company. Open and inclusive. At Voltage Coffee in Cambridge. We call it “Coffee Connect with a VC.” Brought to you by the New England Venture Capital Association.

Calling all Growth Hackers! Are you obsessed with growing your business through carefully designed and tested internet marketing? Do you like to A/B test everything you do in life? If so, you have come to the right place! We plan to gather the very best Growth Hackers in Boston to exchange ideas, brainstorm new growth hacks, and inspire each other to achieve new levels of growth hacking success! [growth hacker (noun) - one who’s passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and …

http://www.entretechforum.org/ Meeting Cost: $25 public, $10 students and active military; Promotional Registrations Pre-registration now available: http://theentretechforum.camp7.org/ Meet a new network of local technology entrepreneurs. Our forum consists of moderated monthly panel discussions on emerging academic research and the commercialization of this technology. It was designed for those interested in technology innovation and marketing collaboration and networking with fellow entreprene …

We are an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, writers, publicists, agents, technologists, literary coaches, and publishing professionals. We are striving to create a community of people who will be driving changes in the publishing industry.

Hello, I'm @sidgabriel, the organizer of ARDevMob: The San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Augmented Reality Meetup group. Augmented reality is a human interface metaphor. Unlike the "desktop metaphor" which implies a computerized representation of a desk, files and folders, "Augmented Reality" implies that computer science can inform and extend everything in our visual, auditory and cognitive perception of reality. Making every interface relevant to a "first person" narrative perspectiv …