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 …

Femgineers is for anyone who has a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). We host a series of events to address issues related to women who are currently in STEM careers, help with career advancement, and create companies that are friendlier to females.

We love to talk about what Amazon Web Services is doing in the Bay Area & to connect on ideas, technology & passion for the cloud space. Anyone interested in some of the crazy-interesting goings on should swing by!

Meet other women (and men) who are interested in empowering women in all kinds of technology and encouraging girls to pursue education in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) that will prepare them for career opportunities in technology. Discuss topical strategies for advancement, handling issues in the workplace, personal and professional development as well as the emerging technologies of interest.

Wouldn't it be great to discover authentic and delicious food made by your local community? We think so! Grubalicious is a private dining club that features everyday chefs and their signature dishes. I've you'd like to sign up to be a local chef and host a dinner, drop me a note!  Big or small, any event, your call! Grubalicious offers a terrific way to meet new and interesting people, share food with friends and meet the face behind your meal. Dinners are kept relatively small and intimate and …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

Welcome to VLAB on MeetUp, an extension of www.vlab.org. Established in 1990, The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (http://www.vlab.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We host one of the leading ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effective …

Founders helping Founders About Let's get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them. This group focuses on issues that technology startup entrepreneurs run into when building the startup. We will meet at HackerDojo or Microsoft Bizspark labs in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. Events include brown bag lunch sessions, pitching events and other startup related events. Brown Bag Lunch sessions These are group discussion sessions with a small numb …

We are professional women working in the clean technology and sustainability space, from the entry level to the executive level. We meet once a month to network and learn the latest developments in the green movement from speakers and panelists. Topics covered include: renewable energy (solar, wind biofuel, etc), water, smart grid, biomass, carbon reduction, sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, sustainability, green buildings and many other technologies that aim to make our world a cle …

The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

Welcome to the Microsoft Store Valley Fair Meetup group! We're happy you're here. Our group is for everyone who is interested in attending free events at the store, including workshops on Windows or Office, business networking events, field trips, Xbox tournaments, and Kinect gaming events, to name a few. We offer these free classes in our state-of-the-art theater, equipped with a 103" touchscreen TV, podium, microphones, and amazing audio system. Our awesome trainers will reveal the simple secr …

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudsig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note: it is free to attend if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership).

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. …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Join the Microsoft Store for workshops and classes on relevant business topics and technology. Also events featuring Windows 8, Office 2013, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more along with great networking opportunities. Each month we will offer different workshops on how technology can improve your small business, professional organization, company, or non-profit.

SVForum fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership within the San Francisco/Silicon Valley ecosystem of individuals and businesses participating in emerging technologies. We do this by: - creating connections and community - providing education and access to reources - linking the global business community to Silicon Valley, and - facilitating the exchange of unbiased knowledge, insights and best practices. With the support of an outstanding team of knowledgeable, passionate volunt …

"Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Everyone" Unleash your hidden power. We all have it as a presenter. Learn to bring yours out. Build and project your confidence in front of an audience, your boss or your customers you know confidence is key to your success. Increase your presence and humor in front of an audience. Learn simple techniques to improve your body language and make others feel at ease around you. Practice your skills in a supportive and safe environment. The secret to lear …

The Electric Vehicle Entrepeneurs of Silicon Valley (EVE) is a non-profit group of peer entrepreneurs and innovators in Silicon Valley who want to participate in the design, development, and marketing of electric vehicles and electric vehicle technologies. Anyone who is interested in creating, recruiting, or working of hot new electric vehicle startups in Silicon Valley should join this group. Also, any electric vehicle (EV) car owner in Silicon Valley is welcome to join and share ideas about …

Where else but the Bay Area could you start a moms group full of engineers, programmers and techies of all stripes? This won't be your typical mommies group! We will promote family friendly tech events and other ideas for sharing technology with your kids or getting away for a while with other tech oriented women. Events we promote may be all over the Bay Area, but many of them will be worth the drive.

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or if you are a developer/comput …

Folks, This is for the first time any startup is asking you to be their CEO, all of you members would be the CEO of this startup that focusses on empowering education to eradicate poverty and improving lives of underprivileged people globally. The kind of meetups we organize would give a new direction to our company, which will soon be launched to public. It is currently an invitation only for users. Type of meetups where you will be invited and asked to provide your inputs and first thoughts. Y …

Cloud Strategy Generation (CSG) helps with skills, experience and frameworks needed to enable Cloud Strategy for IT Projects. At Cloud Strategy Generation we connect cloud strategy to business models, to culture, to requirements and to ever evolving technology stack of Cloud Computing. We bring together educators, researchers, pioneers in the cloud and leaders from every industry to influence the usage and design of our tools. Our experiences are enduring and transformational delivering competit …

Rainmakers started as a series of miniconferences focusing on entrepreneurial education for startup founders and professionals to share their experiences and grew into the perfect networking group for San Francisco Bay professionals who want to connect with other professionals. Make new business and personal connections, build your 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 intro …

Meet other local executives to discuss topics of the day in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovations, Enterprise 2.0 , Social Enterprise , Social CRM , Social Media , Social Networking and Technology spaces. You can become a fan of our Social CRM facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/SocialCRMWorl ...  and join our group on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=25 ...  where we also post job openings, have discussions and read news. Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/glfceo . …

Too much stuff you don't use? Join the club. Trade your unwanted stuff for stuff you want!! Simply RSVP, show up, and swap! This easygoing, no fuss group will get together every couple of months (or more often depending on interest level) at a public park, community room, coffee shop, someone's house, etc. to bring stuff to trade. There may be different "themes" for each meetup (e.g. handbags, clothing, jewelry, hair accessories, scarves, belts, hats, shoes, cosmetics, books, movies, technology, …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more 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. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other ico …

A group for Stanford entrepreneurs & Silicon Valley founders who have a burning desire to grow their Startup. Join us at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordIgniter/ Tweets at : http://www.twitter.com/igniterSV/ LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4970423 Website: http://www.IgniterSV.com/ (coming soon)

Who will benefit from participating in SVCrowdfund? Private investors (VCs and Business Angels) who want to learn about the opportunities crowdfunding creates for them Startups and innovators examining their fundraising options Crowdfunding platforms wanting promote their portals in the capital of innovation and private investments Marketing Specialists, Legal Advisors, CPAs looking for new clients and partners Students interested in getting involved in private investment or marketing business; …