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 change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …

The Berkeley Startup Cluster is a resource for growing, innovative companies and budding entrepreneurs in Berkeley. Looking for connections to mentors, networking opportunities, early stage investors, partners or just cool tech companies close to the UC Berkeley campus? Join us to get to know your neighbors and stay connected!

Come interact with local entrepreneurs, business owners, and real estate investors who enjoy trading stories and sharing financial ideas with each other. On the 2nd Saturday of each month, we play Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow 101 board game which is based on financial principals of getting out of the rat race through investing and owning businesses.  If you've read the NY Times best selling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the book is based on the game (not the other way around).  Playing games allows you …

The word "altrupreneur" combines altruism and entrepreneur into one word to describe a new type of social entrepreneur whose aim is to reach financial freedom so that they commit themselves to public interest, consumer advocacy, personal development, and social justice causes. The book, Altrupreneur, nearing completion by Alex Lavidge, showcases self-made millionaires and those who have inherited wealth between the ages of 18 to 40 that live a simple lifestyle. Each day they're reducing their ec …

Building a new energy future requires brilliant minds in every discipline -- engineering, biology, economics, policy, finance, and marketing to name just a few. Come share a beer and a snack with Berkeley's best entrepreneurs, researchers and creative thinkers working on addressing the central issue of this century.

Creating a successful business starts with creating a successful mindset and treating yourself like a VIP client. Come and learn powerful tools to become magnetic to your ideal client and network with heart centered women entrepreneurs. The motto of this group is "We Thrive Together." This is a place where you can be yourself and get support for your heart centered business mission and create business friendships that will create prosperity for all! We meet at the beautiful Richmond Marina at Th …

We are looking for business professionals who want to grow their businesses. As entrepreneurs living and working in the Berkeley, California area, we invite you to consider the mutually profitable prospect of becoming a part of our growing network for a mutually profitable business association. BNI is the largest business networking organization in the world, and it has a unique twist. We accept only one person per professional specialty in each chapter. If you are accepted into membership, yo …

Berkeley Events is the perfect social and business networking group for San Francisco Bay professionals who want to make new business and personal connections, build their network, find new clients and identify business opportunities. We make our networking events easy by having greeters at the door to not only welcome you - they introduce you to others, along with having events in elegant and fun Berkeley locations, making it simple to meet new people. We keep you informed and connected to th …

Vital Systems supports people aligning their values, passion and money for community profit and a regenerative economy. Because everyone must eat to survive, our activities are focused on one of the most vulnerable global issues of our time -- food and farming infrastructure. We bring together various communities to collect, frame, and share knowledge about food and farming infrastructure practices that can help build communication processes, interconnect communities, and provide infrastructure …

Are you a do-er and not just a talker and like to be part of one-of-a-kind experiences? Do you like surprising people in a good way? Ever done a Flash-mob? How about a cash mob? http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/03/02/neighbors-rally-around-food-after-tragedy-strikes-small-businesses/ Ever heard of 'Build a better block?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntwqVDzdqAU I like doing quirky and unusual things. I've started and ran the Atlanta Underground Market in Atlanta and organized the largest flash-mo …

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Berkeley Business Mixers is an East Bay Meet-up Group where business professionals and friends can come together to discuss, share insights, and help one another build their businesses in an open and welcoming environment. Mixers are held every 6-8 weeks at various venues around North Oakland, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito. So far we have meet at Local 123 on San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley, but are always looking for new places to "Get-together". Hope you will join us at our next event!

Please join our monthly meeting using the Systemic Constellation Method. We are interested in building a group of people working on growing their businesses using this methodology. Quantum physics makes it clear that we exist in a field of possibility beyond linear time and local space. Through this field, the Systemic Constellation Method makes visible opportunities for growing our businesses and careers that we may not have previously considered. Through these workshops you will be able to : - …

This group has two goals: Have a place for women who are drawn to sitting in circle with other women and / or women looking to participate in women only groups for spiritual growth, self exploration and transformation. Women have come together in ritual, healing and celebration for millennia. I deeply trust the healing power that occurs when we gather as women and share our stories.   As well as when we engage in processes of deep transformation together.  Some of the ways I offer this to the co …

We're all about hardware startups - the fun, and the work. We're for anyone into the Maker Movement, Industrial Design, Toys, Lean Startups, Technology, Microcontrollers, Robotics, Fashion, The Internet of Things, Entrepreneurship, Manufacturing, and anything else disruptive.

Have an idea for an app, product, service you want to turn into a start-up? Want to know how? Learn how to take an idea from whiteboard to marketplace. And then create marketing tools like identity, branding, onesheets, sales kits, websites, advertising and social marketing campaigns to launch your new venture to VC investors or target market/s at Cal Berkeley Extension: http://extension.berkeley.edu/catalog/course1367.html

Join the Biz-erkeley Book Club. We meet on the third Thursday of each month at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA.

This Meetup is inspired by the creator of the Coursera Cafe, Belinda Beasley, for her Facebook group for us fellow Courserans: "This is a place for Courserans to get some downtime from studying, discuss Coursera in a general way and chat about things which are not relevant on the study groups. It is also a place for friends to have fun. Anyone can add other Courserans so please invite anyone who you feel should be here. We would ask that you please invite only people who you already know. Apart …

This is a group that will be forming for the purpose of assembling working teams of ambitious and creative budding entrepreneurs who are interested in working together to share their skills and ideas and collectively put together at least one fundraising proposal on Kickstarter. The results of the work that is done collectively will be shared collectively. A variety of skills are required to create an effective and successful fundraising campaign and no one person embodies all of them, so lets w …

Courageous Women Association, Inc., is a motivational and empowerment source for women. We are a nonprofit 501 (c)3 organization providing support services & resources, workshops for women's well-being, and give-back events specifically for women of abuse, homelessness, addiction, health deficiencies, and incarcaration. We offer social, economic, and environmental fortification to women and children.  We also seek to educate women on the importance of living with a purpose and learning to step …

This is a group to bring together homebased travel professionals, independent contractors, or travel agents who are looking for training, updated supplier information, and networking in the travel community.

The goal of this meetup group is to develop an interesting community of web publishers Join this group if you like: Publishing websites (blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) Web programming Tech meetups Startups

There seem to be a lot of software-related learning/coworking/entrepreneuring groups in San Francisco and the Peninsula. What about those of us on this side of the BART tube? Are you starting a new programming or web project, and looking for someone to bounce ideas off of, or maybe chip in? Are you taking a break (voluntary or otherwise) from wage slavery, and want to hang around some other people who are upgrading their skill sets? Do you want to contribute to someone else's project? Or are yo …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Berkeley/East Bay girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a d …

Hoping to discuss and support one another in getting in touch with our creativity once again. Creativity in various forms that was left behind at some point in our lives. I have been writing poetry as of late, and I have been amazed at the process of images and words coming to me-through me, and feeling like a "witness" to the "creative process," for the first time in my life. I am interested in this process and to others that have experienced or would like to experience this more in their lives …