People interested in startups and meeting VC's, founders, models, Leaders etc in a social and cultural atmosphere and not when everyone is pitching them. Our events are unique as it not only provides “regular” events like VC pitches, talks, networking etc but also access to top motivational events in the startup world which the Founders of this group, due to their backgrounds&interest in HR&Behavioral Sciences, often themselves curate. .

Leukemia Society, Junior Achievement, French Tuesdays, Asia Society, Harvard Club,Ballet etc are some of the social venues in addition to VC& startup events and parties where the members of SF Social& Startup Club connect with CEO’s, VC’s, models, artists, leaders in a social and cultural setting and not when everyone is pitching them. You are also invited to join our sister meetups www.meetup.com/startupmindSF and www.meetup.com/startupmind

Welcome to SF Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, Investors, Angel Investors, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including iOS, Mobile HTML5, Android,WP, 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 Entrepreneur community is the the place to ne …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so 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. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, …

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.

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 …

This Meetup is a unique meeting dedicated in promoting the hottest Web 2.0 startups. Former keynote speakers: -Gokul Rajaram - Google AdSense - Jim Barnett - CEO of TURN - Jay Webster - CTO of BlueLithium - Ray DeRenzo - MobiTV - Mike Masnick - CEO of Techdirt - Ben Smith - CEO of Merchant Circle - Renaud Laplanche - CEO of Lending Club - Eyal Hertzog - Founder of Metacafe - Dr. Barney Pell - CEO of PowerSet - Chi-Hua Chien - Accel Partners - Ramu Yalamanchi - CEO of Hi5 - Hooman Ra …

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 …

Mission: This meetup group is all about getting YOU FUNDED!!! It's also a very fun and interactive group as we have on the last Wed. of each month Pitch Demo to Investors Day with Plug & Play Tech Center. If you have a project that falls in any of the categories listed in http://www.gazillionfund.com, feel free to send me your excerpt and let me know which day you want to pitch. THIS MEETUP IS SPONSORED BY HTTP://WWW.GAZILLIONFUND.COM, There's never been a better time to seek funds, and invest a …

This group is for anyone in the bay area who is interested in sports as well as technology, business, media, or startups. You're perfect for this group if you: think the MIT Sloan Sports Conference sounds cool read espn.com and tech crunch regularly follow Darren Rovell on Twitter are a part of a sports tech startup are interested in the way that technology and sports intersect sometimes use acronyms like FIP and WAR to talk about sports just want to grab a beer or have a fun conversation with …

Fashion Technology (FT) Accelerator is a program in Silicon Valley exclusively dedicated to start-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology. FT Accelerator works with a selected group of companies that are already generating revenue and are typically ready to achieve sustained growth. For pre-revenue start-up there is FT Start-up Showcase, a monthly discussion / demo centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries at the intersection with Technology …

Description of Community Group: It takes skill, resources and a community to create a successful business, be it a high-tech start-up or a small business. At Golden Gate University, many of our students choose to start their own ventures upon graduation, building on the knowledge they've gained with us. Business owners also come to GGU looking to fill gaps in their training and gain the confidence it takes to compete in the climate today. Many of our faculty are themselves investors and entrepre …

Keiretsu Forum's Entrepreneur Academy equips you, an entrepreneur, to accelerate your access to the capital, expertise, and resources you need to grow your business. Each of the courses is led by seasoned industry executives and delivers practical, relevant, and timely knowledge and practices that are critical to your business.

IGNITE! kicks off Tuesday March 13 at 5 PM at RocketSpace, 181 Fremont Street n San Francisco. Hummer Winblad is our sponsoring VC and Mitchell Kertzman, Managing Director, is our Keynote Speaker. If you are interested in pitching please go to www.ignitefundraisers.com . Ten companies will have demo tables and the top four startups, picked by attendees, will have an opportunity to pitch to a distinguished panel of VC and Angels. The winner gets a pitch session at Hummer Winblad!! If you’d like t …

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with over 1,000 accredited investor members throughout 26 chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400m in over 360 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Forum members collaborate in the due diligence, but make individual investment decisions, with rounds in the range of $250K - $2 million. The p …

Women in tech welcomes men and women equally. We hold pitch events, classes and networking activities! If you would like to present at one of our pitch events then submit your information to: http://www.startupsaturdays.net/submityourstartup/ Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded Its all possible when you take the initiative! Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/womentech/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StartupSaturdays Twitter: http://twitter.com/Startup99 Web …

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 …

We all love the breakthrough platform for startups called AngelList [http://angel.co/]. It's time AngelList has a User Group. This cluster will share experience about how to get the most from AngelList. Like the best user groups, we are independent, sponsored by users only. Join us to continuously develop your expertise with AngelList, share stories, have some impassioned conversation and hopefully a lot of fun.

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

iDate2011 (Internet Dating and Dating Industry Business Convention) investigates the Internet Dating and Social Networking business. It serves as the industry's largest convention. Our next convention is on June 22-24, 2011 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, USA. Topics discussed include: dating software, matchmaking software, partnerships, payments, business strategy, wireless, advertisement methods, background checks, legal, venture capital, and new technology.

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 …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Startup. Blast off. RocketSpace is an accelerator for high-growth, seed-funded tech startups. We provide the fuel that every startup needs to accelerate: access to top talent, tier 1 venture capital, and blue-chip brands representing millions of potential customers. Located in the heart of tech & new media in San Francisco, RocketSpace currently hosts over 130 of the hottest startups in mobile, gaming, and Web 2.0 as well as an alumni network including Uber, Zaarly, PocketGems, Zappos, and Pod …

SFBootstrap is a meetup group for founders or entrepreneurs that have build their business without outside funding. We meet in Downtown San Francisco and discuss the challenges of building a business without venture, angel, or any outside funding. Join us to meet other founders and interesting entrepreneurs, learn from others, and share tips you have discovered along the way. We are all working for the same goal, why not help each other on the way? Join the group and you'll get a monthly SFBoots …

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with over 1,000 accredited investor members throughout 26 chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400m in over 360 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Forum members collaborate in the due diligence, but make individual investment decisions, with rounds in the range of $250K - $2 million. The p …

We love spontaneously bringing people together through storytelling and sharing artisan cups of coffee. We try to keep things simple: We focus on people, coffee, and stories. We're coffee lovers, storytellers, geeks, technologists, and creative people passionate about sharing stories and drinking coffee. At each CoffeeStartups event we bring together entrepreneurs, thought leaders, technologists, designers, and writers to share a unique story to the group. Each CoffeeStartups event has a specifi …

Are you an entrepreneur, fighting the good fight? Come down for some whiskey and maybe some fisticuffs. Have a hard time explaining "the life" to your normal friends?  Have you ever had the best day of your life followed by the worst day of your life, all in the span of 4 hours? If you're not afraid of a revenue model, have or are trying to raise funds, or have hoisted a pirate war-time flag, get on in.

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