Missions: 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 we partner with Plug & Play Tech Center for Pitch Demo to Investors. 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. All of our own meetup events are free, and we even provide food to most of them! And this meetup group also provides free passes or discounted price …

Meetup of local designers, inventors, innovators and social entrepreneurs who are intrested in the design, development and distribution or products for the benefit of the Other 90% -- that's about 5.85 billion people -- that's a market. This group is sponsored by Designfluence, a nonprofit aggregator of designers and resources, and is open to collaborative relationships with like groups and individuals. More about Designfluence on our website. We've decided NOT to have membership dues or mee …

Join Team Fighting Diabetes to walk/run/hike/bike and raise fund to support the American Diabetes Association. Team Fighting Diabetes is attending the 2013 San Jose "Step Out" walk/run event in October. We will have warm-up/training activities throughout the year.

To explore and discuss Trading Systems. Open to all Strategies and Methodologies. No hard-selling, just friendly, intelligent discourse. - Technical Analysis - Artificial Intelligence systems, including but not limited to Neural networks Genetic algorithms - Datamining - Fundamental Value

The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The Cleantech Open has established itself as the leader in developing clean technology startup entrepreneurs addressing these challenges. Since its inception in 2006, 191 promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Open’s one-of-a-kind hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with impressive results: * …

Core group has worked with new technology startups for over 18 years. How to take a social media or technology start-up company from idea concept through funding and global market. Whether family shoestring budget, angel investment or VC venture capital the principles for success remain the same. With the warp-speed changes in digital, mobile and hyper-localized marketing as well as consumer savvy rewards-based technologies emerging every view days we would love to meet and chat about some basic …

This is a support group for single founder software companies. Share ideas and discuss about challenges facing single founders. According to Paul Graham, the #1 mistake that kills a startup is Single Founder http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence. What's wrong with having …

Real Life Super Heroes, Masked Crime Fighters, Costumed Vigilantes, & Uniformed Mystery Detectives meet to share case files, organize citizen patrols, review investigations, analyze crime statistics, discuss law enforcement support, teach new techniques, tell success stories, plan charitable and educational events, send inspiring messages, and learn about resources for solving cases. Whether fighting crime, solving cold cases, researching records, or otherwise, this group is a support team for t …

About SVCWireless Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit, non-bias independent professional organization to bridge the technology industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 6000 members and 50 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners. US Mobile Apps and Interne …

We connect startup founders 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. 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 community here, and join us to build successful start-ups. …

This group is the West Coast version of the Manhattan-based ed tech meet up that brings educators, ed tech entrepreneurs and investors together to create a cultural shift in the way we teach, learn and thrive as a community. We have teacher panels, entrepreneur presentations and investor feedback in a bi-monthly meetup series. It's a great place to talk about apps, community, politics, funding, education, training and professional development for a 21st Century global education system.

AgoraStartupIdol.com (ASI) is simply an online version of the Silicon Valley pitch contest over video conferencing. ASI provides traction to its via BeInToo's Gamification layer which incentivizes audience members for preferred behaviors through points, rewards and prizes. ASI's mission is to provide startups strong traction. Something they have been on their own to attract until now. ASI's goals are to get all contestants some level of new users and at least one over 100,000 new users.

My name is Japjot Sethi and I created Startup Cookout. I love to cook and eat great food, which inspired me to create Startup Cookout. Startup Cookout is a group for Entrepreneurs that enjoy talking to other Entrepreneurs, help in any way they can and share their Ideas with others, but also love food. Our goal is to get Entrepreneurs together once a month to Network, hear about great Ideas and enjoy some great food. At Startup Cookout, We would request every Entrepreneur to submit their idea and …

We are an educational group. We provide a platform for everyone in the group to learn from one another. We can share our ideas, dreams, and help one another build our wealth and achieve our dream lifestyles. We meet at least once a month to discuss different topics. Our purpose is to pass on wealth building information and add value to every group member's life. If you have great ideas and want to share with others, please e-mail to mywealth411@gmail.com. Discussed topics currently include, but …

We represent angel investors and investment funds in the valley whom are providing seed funding for App. developers to grow their businesses. We will be planning a monthly meet where we invite all developers to pitch their ideas. We welcome any kind of idea as long as long as they are related to mobile apps or apps for IP T.V. Join our group, share your ideas, and a best date to meet se we can organize our next event this August.

Please join us for a lively discussion of emerging developments in PreK-12 digital learning in and across formal and informal environments. Co-hosted by Stanford University Graduate School of Education Professor Roy Pea with the U.S. Department of Education's Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology and OET's Deputy Director, Richard Culatta, this meet up will be of interest to you as an ed-tech innovator or entrepreneur; learning sciences and technology researcher; or innov …

Welcome to Woman, StartUp! You are: a woman, startup entrepreneur & want-trepreneur or potential co-founder material a coder, hacker, geek chick, you name it...you are a technically hot woman. independent, unique, good at what you do, a visionary, or a game changer. You face challenges in the technology world.... Let us guess...you go to lots of networking events, workshops, speaker panels, hand out a lot of business cards...oh yeah!, you have nice evenings shared with other entrepreneurs. …

The wave of CrowdFunding is in site and, as entrepreneurs and investors, we know how to handle a the next big idea. The Crowdfund Roundup is transparent co-operative of CrowdCos, CrowdVestors, Investors, Affiliates and Sponsors working together to understand crowdfunding investment and companies learning how to turn new ideas into products.We intend to gather the right resources and to form the right partnerships that will make SF Bay CR the place to come for your CrowdCreative endeavors! Join u …

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

Organizing play days for kids, clinics for parents and coaches and local ladders and tournaments. A good way to get your year started on a positive note against the weight gaining inches. Red and Orange ball tournaments for the kids, fund raisers and social organized tournaments for adults like, labor day, independence day, turkey day and veterans day. An annual Open tournament for the competitive player. Singles, doubles or mixed, we'll match you in your desired rating.

Welcome to Women Startup Lab You are a passionate StartUp Woman! You are a Startup Founder, a Startup CTO, a Startup Wantrapreneur! You Got What it Takes! Now Connect with Others & You've got a Team! Join us to get the best of our Women's Startup Ecosystem to help you succeed. - Women Founders & Startup Speaker Series - Attend our intimate Speaker Series by Female Founders, VCs and Angels who will address your challenges and opportunities, and share their wisdom and real life experiences on wh …

Come join Sempervirens Fund docents on a free guided hike! Our expert volunteer docents lead hikes through the parks of the Santa Cruz Mountains and on lands currently owned and cared for by Sempervirens. Each hike has its own character and level of intensity. On a hike through the Lompico Forest, participants may walk through the depths of a steep redwood canyon in quest of the Lompico Creek headwaters or take a quiet river walk. A trip through the San Lorenzo River Redwoods will bring hikers t …

Help with all aspects of the startup process. Brainstorm with others. Work on pitches, listen to others. Help with funding & more.

This meetup is for startuppers and entrepreneurs and other professionals who like to mentor and nurture creative minds. This meetup will provide a platform for those seeking funding, ideas, co-founders etc by bringing them together through networking. WE WELCOME PITCH HIKERS.

This Meetup was conceived by Marshall Childs of FundaVision, along with Co-Organizers Alex Mednick and Jeffrey Blake. We are a small, but fast growing group of energetic entrepreneurs, businesspeople, Technology Evangelists, and social/environmental enthusiasts who believe that by working together and cooperating, we can create income quickly and have a Win/Win mutually beneficial relationship. We plan to have regular events in Silicon Valley and eventually spread to other communities. We will a …

We work closely with smart, creative and insanely hardworking startup founders to help them focus their product’s value proposition, refine their product and pitch to investors and ultimately make personal introductions to help get their companies the resources and funding they need to scale. More info at: www.founderbase.net This is a monthly meet that brings together promising entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and around the world.  Join us for founder’s brunch, interactive panel discussion, o …

Going step by step how to get through the network of starting out, funding, and making money without giving away the company. In a pre IPO, investors are interested in sales and how they will see a profit. Your plan should be based on current sales. We talk about how to get sales and position a company to be attractive to investors.