#1 Bay Area Network! A community for entrepreneurs, small business owners and investors. Have a great idea? Have capital and can't find a sound business? This #1 Community can help. We provide financing help, business plan development, consulting, debt financing, alternative financing, and opportunities to investors. Join San Francisco Entrepreneur Investor Network Meetup today! All Entrepreneurs & Investors are welcome. We will have a wide range of qualified entrepreneurs so you can share ideas …

While San Francisco and the South Bay are known for their tech scene, Marin County and areas north have all kinds of cool innovation happening. I want to meet tech entrepreneurs who are doing really awesome stuff and I don't want to travel an hour to do it! Let's meet up and talk about what we're working on, trade ideas and support, and jumpstart the scene up here. Whether you're an engineer, a UI/UX, a business type or just an entrepreneur groupie - come hang out!

Welcome to one of the 50 largest entrepreneur groups in the country! You do NOT need to live in the San Francisco Bay Area to join our club. We record our meetings and publish them on YouTube. Watch videos at http://www.youtube.com/tacticalexecution The Twitter hashtag for this group is #academy. The Academy has 3 main goals: (1) disseminate practical business development guidance for entrepreneurs & small business owners, (2) allow members to network and benefit from each other's expert …

Raise Your Glass! Happy Hour Networking for Women Entrepreneurs For every women who believes that we are stronger together rather than apart. Who believes in tribal wisdom and the sharing of great stories. Who loves a great glass of wine (or two). Who believes that every woman has a right to find their inner warrior. Capture Power. Capture Love. Capture Wisdom. The Power is within You. This is for the woman in you. The woman who knows she has so much to offer the world. For the woman wh …

Hi there, If you're looking to start an apparel manufacturing business, you've come to the right place.  The purpose of this group is to direct people to the resources they need in order to gain knowledge about creating a successful apparel or sewn products venture.  There will be invitations to classes and lectures about how to write a business plan, how to approach resources you need in order to get your product developed and finally mass-produced in S.F. or Oakland.  There will also be real w …

A synergistic alliance: entrepreneurs sharing information, support, and business tools, inspiring growth and success. Dues are only $40 per year. We meet 8-9:30 AM on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at A'Cuppa Tea on College and Alcatraz in north Oakland.

The Entrepreneurs mixer is a interactive and FUN way to network, meet your match, make new resources....or just to have a great time! We are taken a regular happy hour and mixing in the Ultimate icebreaker, with a Networking twist.

My name is Mary Liu and I am the Organizer of this Meetup and I welcome you to the Premier Women's Business Network.  I, like yourself, am an entrepreneur and have been for the past 28 years so I know the challenges of trying to balance it all.  From a business, to your children, your husband or partner and everything else in between. I own several businesses including Empowered Women Speakers, a visibility consulting firm that provides resources for speakers, coaches, trainers, and entrepreneu …

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 …

Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast. * Compare Notes * Exchange Ideas * Learn from Others’ Mistakes * Brainstorm with Peers * Find Partners * Small Group Atmosphere * Serious Conversation Our focus is on issues for growing a business, not on VC fundraising. We promote the bootstrap business model. Check us out at http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com

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 …

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!

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.

Our goal is to disrupt and change the typical way of networking, by creating a unique social environment for entrepreneurial-minded people from diverse industries, allowing them to connect with each other. Our events allow for building and fostering new connections, utilizing your distinctness and similarities as tools to create social capital and opportunities for you and people like you. Connecting People. Connecting Opportunities.

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 …

"The DaVinci Institute: Where Great Ideas Happen" The DaVinci Institute produces a number of unique events ranging from the two monthly networking events - the Night with a Futurist, and the Startup Junkie Underground - to a series of Boot Camps and Crash Courses primarily designed around serving the needs of businesses and entrepreneurs. Our events feature some of the most talented thinkers and seasoned veterans who have fundamentally changed the business landscape with the sheer weight of the …

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 …

This is a MORE than just networking group! At each meeting, not only will you have an opportunity to tell other women entrepreneurs who you are and what you do, you'll have a chance to offer resources you have and ask for referrals you need! Have a great graphic designer or need an acupuncturist? Bring your needs and wants to the group and watch the power of women networking at its best! And, in an effort to share even more resources, we encourage women to bring an inspirational or business book …

Each month Oakland Social gets together at a different location for an evening of networking amongst young professionals and entrepreneurs. We choose some of Oakland's best locations and always have a great time.

This group extends hospitality to foreign nationals visiting the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area to learn about entrepreneurship and startup companies. WB, B-1, F-1 OPT and J-1 (without 2-year restriction) nonimmigrants are highly encouraged to participate.

Calling all tech entrepreneurs, founders, CxOs, investors and leaders in the South Marin area! South Marin DrinkTank is  the latest off-shoot of the highly successful DrinkTank series of tech meet-ups run in London, New York and San Francisco by Huddle and its partners. This latest event is brought to you by Huddle (Alastair Mitchell, CEO & Founder) and Ping Identity (Mike Desai, VP Global Channels & Business  Development) – both of whom are new arrivals to Tiburon! The event is a high quality, …

This group founded by Melissa Bradley is a directory of Marin County women business owners and leaders that can benefit from each others friendships. This group is focused on gaining personal long lasting relationships and having fun, and the referrals and networking are secondary. We call our members "Queen Bees" to be funny. Life is too short not to have fun! We have voluntary meetings once or twice a month a local Marin restaurants. Melissa Bradley is the owner of Bradley Real Estate. She st …

The SVForum Emerging Technology SIG is a bi-monthly meeting focused on the future. The goal is to talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet, to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general, to examine what’s coming down the pipeline. We meet on the second Wednesday of every other month.

YOUR PROFESSIONAL WEDDING & EVENT RESOURCE OUR GOALS: - To create lasting relationships with fellow event professionals - To share knowledge, tips, and experiences - To actively help each other grow our businesses We are currently looking for a core group of people from different parts of the Bay Area, who are willing to put in some time and effort to organize and/or host meetups for this group, and keep it an ongoing active resource for fellow event professionals to connect with each other, a …

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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 …