The Detroit Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

Bizdom is an entrepreneurship accelerator that helps entrepreneurs launch, fund and grow innovative, tech-based startups in Detroit and Cleveland. We'll be hosting Business Brunches, Speaker Series, and Networking events in Downtown Cleveland. Entrepreneurs at all levels, Programmers, Coders, etc should join in on the movement!

After leaving the corporate world, I realized how much I missed lunching with co-workers, talking about business and just sharing ideas. This realization prompted me to start this group. The idea is that we'll meet for at different locations around downtown and midtown, talk and enjoy a great meal. If you are a solo entrepreneur or part of a small team or just a foodie and want to meet new folks, share ideas and just all around have good conversation, this group is for you!

digitalundivided GROW Detroit is a monthly meet up of digital companies founded/co-founded by black women working together to GROW their tech-based companies from Idea to MVP to Growth and then Exit. Sponsored by digitalundivided, a company that builds forward thinking initiatives that change the digital space.

We are excited to launch a version of Coffee House Coders in Detroit called DetCoffeeCode. This group is geared towards new and expert coders as well as entrepreneurs who are running a start-up. The group meets the last Thursday of every month Downtown at Starbucks. Attendees have knowledge in various coding languages. So if you are a new coder, freelancing or a start-up come Downtown and join us! Please follow us on twitter for the latest updates @DetCoffeeCode .

IT Social 6:01 is a networking group that brings Information Technology, Industry Leaders and Entrepreneurs from the high tech corridors of Silicon Mitten and metro Detroit together for knowledge sharing, networking, professional career advancement opportunities and to connect the overall DOTS. There is no cover charge for IT Social's but we do encourage donations that we apply to charities and at times we have special guests as hosts.

Detroit Rails builds full stack web developers one stack trace at a time. There will be an intensive 10-week course taking people from competent hacker to employable developer. These meetups will be delivered in bite-sized offerings, easier on the wallet and the schedule. We are building a community of web developers in Detroit to teach, learn, work and code.

This group is for everyone interested in the MobiDevDay Detroit Software Development Conference.