We work under the principles that there are three key elements to start with that will create a successful startup: good people, a product the market actually wants, and money (either by spending as little money as possible or having access to enough money to it see through to customer interaction). Startups that fail at any one of these three key elements will likely fail. But all three are doable. And that’s what makes startups so exciting – they may be hard but they are doable. Cofounder Clu …

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. …

Silicon Barn is not an incubator, accelerator, co-working facility, etc. Silicon Barn is something new. It is a Startup Launcher. Silicon Barn is dedicated to building Startups. A lot of entrepreneurs have a problem finding a technical co-founder.  A good Tech co-founder has 10 job offers. The best Techies are not qualified to determine the viability of your idea if they do not know the industry. The Entrepreneur is asking the Techie to work without pay based on a plan. The Entrepreneur may not …

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

Are you a woman ready to start your own scalable business? You've been working for a while and you have a lot of ideas AND you want to follow your own dreams? Join our peer accelerator - a network of experienced women leading and co-founding startup businesses. We're a powerful, supportive, and capable network that leverages all of strengths into each of our successes.

Welcome to SF Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including iOS, Mobile HTML5, Android,WP, Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur community is the the place to network with the like minds. A …

ASL’s Emerging Business Group supports you through the start-up and growth stages by helping you: - Tackle and move past business problems with proven ideas and resources from ASL personnel and our large professional network. - Gain traction in the market by planning for and securing the financing necessary to fund key initiatives and projects. - Get the most out of your capital by identifying and eliminating operational inefficiencies. - Connect to a peer network of other founders, owners, and …

A lot of startups nowadays go by a very common model: there are 2-3 co-founders, have a seed round, hire more people, make money, Series A, more people, etc... I would like to explore the topic of how a startup "alliance" can be formed in the early days, before any of the startups have even begun coding (ones that are in the ideation phase). Possibly gathering 5-20 co-founders who all join the alliance, they may have different ideas. The strategy would be they collectively decided which idea see …

Amazon Mycorenewal Project Presents: The Art and Science of Mycorenewal Join us for 10 days of immersion into the world of Mycorenewal! Learn from an array of experienced mycologists and take part in hands-on projects. Gain the skills, knowledge and resources you need to implement a mycorenewal project in your community. Registration is now open! You can register online at http://theartofmycorenewal.pandaform.com/pub/ukb8re/new Please donate to our scholarship and expenses fund so we can spread …

Monthly event to discuss and show-and-tell new technology: Web 2.0 to Nanotech, Digital content to video games. Cool new tech. Geeks, inventors, new companies with cool products and ANYONE curious about new tech is welcome. Visit us online @ http://www.sfnewtech.com Here's what folks say about SF New Tech: “SF New Tech is the best place in San Francisco to launch, meet or recruit for young tech companies.” –  Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad “SF New Tech is a great environment to meet the m …

Welcome to the Meetup group for TEDxConstitutionDrive! You are Invited – May 4 – The Theme is TIME.Auto-Vino, Menlo Park, CA “Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg A limited-capacity event in a phenomenal classic car warehouse and fully working winery, with live speakers on the theme of TIME ranging from a pickling expert to a venture capitalist invento …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This was a group for people interested in issues such as sustainability and economic justice and wanting to create a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. That currency has since been created. Check it out: www.bay-bucks.com. Bay Bucks is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, structured as a non-profi …

Women Inspire Tech is a solution based meetup. Our goal is to increase the number of women leaders in tech. Our Mission Statement is to take action and impact ourselves, to support women who also aspire to reach higher. Our meetups will be orchestrated to inspire boldness, with the intent to grow ourselves into leaders who touch people emotionally and empower others to contribute more than they ever have before. We view leadership as an action. We think leaders are made not born. We become leade …

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group, world's largest mobile entrepreneurs community! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, HTML5 , Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur commu …

I've been looking for a cofounder for a few months with no luck. Most of the groups I've seen are defunct or in SV. Trying to find someone in my city! If you are too, join the group and let's start networking. As things progress, I'd like to keep inviting back successful partnerships to share best practices at each meeting. What's your startup idea? What makes you a great cofounder?

We're looking for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real tech startups at the hackathons of our DataWeek.co and DeveloperWeek.com conferences! Our hackathons are usually the 'kick-off' events for our giant conferences where we invite dozens of speakers, advisors, and partners to provide coaching and free services for our hackathon teams. You can expect direct coaching from 12+ silicon valley VC's and engineers in Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML 5..... We've …

Computer scientists, biologists, system biologists and anyone interested in the new world of computational biology: Get together for conversations about the most fascinating topics you can think of, the new frontiers of what hackers can do in the life sciences. Look for entrepreneurs, co-founders, co-workers, research connections or just an enjoyable evening with stimulating new ideas. We may have topical presentations and a larger venue in the future. Let's just see what ideas people will have.

In December 2011, I was sitting in a three-day, 13-hours-a-day Landmark Education self-improvement seminar in San Francisco, and all I could think about was escaping through one of the hermetically sealed windows and making a dash for Nob Hill, the only thing resembling a steep incline in the area. It was during the dinner break during the final day of the seminar that I conspired with Paul Schutzman and Mai-Ling Garcia -- two of the very cool people with whom I'd made a connection during our th …

Come meet once a month with other like-minded cloud and API hackers. Having trouble making time to finish that side-project of yours connecting Evernote to Facebook? See how much more you can get done with other developers around. Maybe you'll even meet your next co-founder. This MeetUp will occasionally have speakers from publishers of your favorite APIs, but really it's about getting together in a shared space on a consistent basis and finishing what you've let languish.

The growth of the mobile industry is obvious at first glance. Indeed, as we have seen with the growth of several mobile payment solutions like Square and Google Wallet, mobile has started to force many surrounding industries to adjust to its own rapid expansion. The real question moving forward lies in how these surrounding industries will shift to keep up with the expanding capabilities of mobile devices users. With countless types of mobile security solutions (MDM, Password Management, Anti-M …

The objective of the VBE (Virtual Business Ecosystem) group is to help every small business, start-ups, and non-profit organization to harness the power of the latest Cloud Computing, Virtual Events, and Social Media for Explosive Growth & Unfair Advantage! Top 5 Reasons to Join this group: Discover the Secret behind Apple, Amazon, & Google for Sustainable Growth & Unfair Advantage. Brainstorm for the next disruptive business ideas & model for the next Google & Facebook. Meet your co-founder a …

We are a group of first-time, non-technical entrepreneurs without a programmer/technical co-founder...and we've decided to go it alone! If you are starting your own company (or thinking about it) and want to learn how to do it yourself, join the Hack Job Mob! Some people call it an MVP, some people call it a Hack Job - we just call it a prototype. Come to one of our Happy Hours, meet other people going through the same thing, find out how they are doing it and learn tons!

Startups and Cofounders provides valuable entrepreneurship resources and connections for entrepreneurs and people with dreams of launching startups. We are committed to organizing startup events and helping talented people find their cofounders with complimentary skills and build their high-performing startups.

What is App School? App School is a local based meetup community dedicated to helping people learn to develop apps. We meet in Downtown San Francisco for a free Getting Started with iOS class. During this class we help beginners get the Xcode environment installed on their machine and show them how an app is made in real time. We also offer free Office Hours with some of the best developers in the bay area. So come in learn something new, get a bug fixed, or just come to meet others. We love to …

We are a crowd of innovative problem solvers that want to change the world. The goal of our meetup is to pair entrepreneurs with passionate co-founders/team members (tech and/or business), and investors/mentors/advisers. This meetup is a great opportunity to meet awesome individuals, practice your elevator pitch, and learn. With that being said, we would love to have freelance developers, designers, and marketers that want to join forces with entrepreneurs at an early stage of a project.

Startup up boot camp for Android, iOS, HTML5, WP startups.

My goal is to bring together outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy outdoor activities like: -Kayaking -Paint balling -Rock climbing -big game fishing -rafting -Skydiving -snowboarding / skiing -etc... I am one of the co-founders of skyara.com, an outdoor marketplace where we partner with vendors to promote outdoor activities. By joining this group, you will receive EXCLUSIVE discounts as well as attend Meetups that are designed around a specific activity. We might take the group paintballing, or rafting …

Tech Connect This group is for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, tech startups, investors, and small businesses. Tech Connect was designed for the technically minded that believe learning is a life long endeavor. In this day and age, technology and ideas are constantly evolving.  Tech Connect features active experts in their fields who lecture on relevant and useful topics.  Tech Connect's interactive events are tailor made to allow for group networking. Speakers Workshops Pitches Co-founder pairin …