WE'RE SO GLAD YOU FOUND "Follow Your Rainbow!" We welcome any and all people who are small business owners or involved in a home business or are seeking to start a business of their own... Our MISSION is to 1) inspire... 2) educate... 3) equip... people to build and grow their own business, whatever it may be. FYR does not represent or promote any particular company/product/service. Each member brings with them passion, expertise, knowledge and experience that all members can appreciate and lear …

The purpose of our Women's Power Networking Group is to give business women the opportunity to expand personally and professionally through networking. This group brings together individuals who own small businesses as well as those who depend on referrals to expand their businesses. Our group promotes long-term relationships and our group is interested in giving women an environment where they can help each other become successful through concentrated networking. New members are approved by th …

WWW DSM is a group of interesting and intelligent women in the Des Moines and surrounding areas looking to relax, make new friends, grow their social network, learn something new and so much more. And, of course, enjoy great wine! We encourage women from all walks of life to come, share, and experience what WWW DSM is all about! RSVP and put our next event on your calendar. We’d love to meet and get to know you! This group is NOT about seeing how many business cards you can hand out. Sure, somet …

Made or making something awesome? We meet weekly to share and collaborate on projects of all sorts and we'd love to hear about your project. Additionally, we have space, equipment and tools available for members.

Startup Drinks provides entrepreneurs an opportunity to get together and have a drink and discuss what we're working on, our crazy startup ideas, and how we can help each other out with them. Startup Drinks is an informal gathering that takes place in cities all over the world with a purpose of bringing people together to discuss entrepreneurship, small business, and startup culture. Come and talk entrepreneurship with other like-minded folks.

This is our "Meetup" Home Page for IaREIA and Two Rivers REIA of Central Iowa.   Anyone can join this Meetup site who is interested in real estate investing or entrepreneur activites -- buy, fix and flip; wholesaling; working short sales as an investor; finding private money to do deals; loaning private money to facilitate others doing deals, buying foreclosures, discounted notes, tax liens, etc. This site exists to help members stay informed re upcoming meetings and events.  Maybe you'll see so …

Our goal is simple: To educate and support healthy lifestyle choices by providing free community workshops. Our plan is to protect the health of our community one healthy habit at a time!

If you are going to be successful at anything, you have to be willing to learn, grow, take action, and make good decisions and choices. I see many inexperienced people go even deeper in debt by going to a "Get Rich Quick Seminar" of many popular national "Guru's. The first thing you have to learn when you are new is to "protect yourself" from bad advice. I would suggest that if you have no money, being told to put expensive real estate investing, internet marketing, MLM, network marketing, or an …

A monthly meetup in Ames, IA for professionals in the biosciences space, sponsored by the ISU Research Park. The format for the meetup is five minutes of networking, free lunch, and a 30 minute presentation by a speaker in the space.

The Cass County Collab is a weekly meetup where anyone who can work remotely for the afternoon is invited to attend. While the current group is more technically focused, it really is open to anyone who can work from a coffee shop with internet!

Metro Women’s Network is a unique organization serving as a vehicle for women in the greater Des Moines area to find and support each other in business and personal endeavors. Dinner meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month (exceptions: No meeting in July, November/December meeting is combined into a holiday social the first Thursday in December) at local restaurants. We feature topics of interest to women presented by experts in each field, from women’s health to business etiquette …