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 …

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 …

This community is for women/women business owners to come together; share information and resources; build relationships; network; and collaborate. It's a genuine opportunity to support each other in growing and maintaining successful lives and effective businesses.

GoRampUp! will cause you to attract new clients faster and more easily, make those clients more profitable to you, and make doing business easier and more enriching for you. The GoRampUp! Success System(TM) allows you to create your three Core-Success Platforms: Mastery of your "Personal-Best A-Game" Mastery of your "Business Impact Essentials" Mastery of your "Power-Alliance Networking" This means that as you pursue your passion to make a living by helping others to be successful, You will …

East Bay Rotaract is a service group for students and young professionals, ages 18-35, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Membership spans from Richmond to Danville to Mountain View. Join us for a dynamic experience! ---------------------------------------- WHAT IS ROTARACT? ---------------------------------------- Rotaract is a service club for young men and women ages 18-35. It is sponsored by international service organization Rotary International. Rotaract brings together students and you …

Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County would like to welcome all LGBTQ professionals in our area. Our goal is to offer opportunities for business networking, as well as social networking and fun.

Prosperity Partners offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Being a member is like having sales people working for you every day who market your product or service. Our sole purpose is to provide a structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals. If referrals are an important part of your business, then Prosperity Partners is the organization for you. To make the networking effective for all members, …

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of  ideas." – George Santayana "To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us." – Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm Really couldn’t have said it better than Erich Fromm, I think that as adults we all too often forget that …

Welcome to Concord Singles Over Sixty, (SOS), serving the Contra Costa and nearby areas.   SOS was begun on March 10th, 2011 as a group for single adults, 60 years of age or older, for activities and for social networking and friendships. Your first month in SOS is free and then a small yearly fee will be required if you wish to continue on. We suggest using your first name and last initial for joining Meetup if you are not already in the Meetup System for another group. And you should use your …

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If you love walking, BBQ, hiking, running, throwing catch, and conversing at the Lafayette Reservoir this is the completely awesome group for you. We are the friendliest group on meetup.com because we hang out in the coolest and most relaxing place. We also have a fun social network site at LaRezz.ning.com so be sure to join the fun there. Follow us on twitter @larezz

Spontaneous Networking is the fun, creative and experiential alternative to the classic networking event. You will participate in a variety of playful activities to learn about each other, connect, create possibilities, and receive resources and more.

Hey 680 Divas...this is the Latest, Hottest, unique networking approach for business and professional women! This is not your average networking group.  If you are looking for fun, socialization, connection, a mentor, learn how to brand your company, how to move up in your company, how to get a job, how to develop friendship with positive powerful women, etc. this is the place to be! It is always said "It's not what you know, it's who you know." Come and join The 680 Divas Family and learn the s …

We are a great group of professionals and we think our Mission Statement says it all. LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service. Our purpose is the exchange of business tips. Members will, at all times, maintain the highest professional integrity. Each business category is represented by one member and conflicts of interest are disallowed. Become a member of the nation's top networking organization, and join the Walnut Cree …

Are you a business owner? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit? Are you driven and ambitious? Do you have what it takes to continuously achieve the next levels of success? Are you determined to continuously succeed in life and business and thrive despite the challenging economic conditions? If you’ve answered YES to any of these questions, we invite you to join our elite community of like-minded entrepreneurs! Whether your company employs thousands of people, is a small startup, is a family-own …

Your life is good, but you are looking for GREAT! You're a success, but you know there is more to enjoy. Network with like-minded, positive professionals to learn, grow, teach, and connect in a meaningful and powerful way. This is not just another leads group collecting business cards only to be in the same space next year. We are a POWERHOUSE of resources and we're not afraid to share them. Enjoy relevant speakers, learning exercises and networking time.  We value authentic and collaborative pr …

This group is for women ages 20-29 in the El Cerrito/Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco area who are ready to make new friends over lunch or dinner, and much more! We'll get together two or three times a month. If you're friendly, looking to network or would just like to make new friends, you should definitely join us!  We'll be delving into international cuisine for our dinners, and some upcoming meetups will include taking salsa dancing lessons, going to a bossa nova club, going to a good museum, …

Meet other singles near you and get involved in a wide variety of events! Come to a Singles Meetup and connect, network, flirt and make new friends with fellow minglers for fun, friendship...and maybe more! East Bay Single is huge fun, very casual, and is open to anybody. Our events are often discounted, if not free; and we're always looking for new ideas, so if have any suggestions, let us know. The people in this group are really easy going and light-hearted. Join us and come along for the …

The purpose of this group is to bring together recruiters and professional business, technical, and executive individuals who want to work in renewable energy.

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 …

Aloha  New members; Please read all of this important information. Backroads Wine & nature Adventures is a unique combination of wine viticulture, physical fitness, art, photography, & nature adventures. I conduct full time activity to research, trail blazing, Exploring, volunteering, & networking with Wineries, Recreation equipment providers, Land owners, & providing donations to various NP organizations. Come join the fun of exploring seldom visited and little known places of interest, such as …

If you like to cook or want to learn and want to have fun doing it with like-minded people; then this is the meetup for you. If you watch the Cooking Channel, Food Network, America's Test Kitchen, Julia, Jacques...you are a Culinary Addict, If you read Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Food Arts, Cooks Illustrated you are a Culinary Addict...If those magazine pages, worn recipes torn from newspapers, and pages of your cookbooks are stained and smeared from use...then this group is for you. If you want …

This Meetup Group is to keep a community calendar of networking events going on around the East Bay. Via Networking, Connecting, Sharing we can grow our businesses and community! Hello, Everyone! After joining the Networking Bay Area scene, I quickly realized how many vast opportunities there are and have been wondering how everyone is keeping up with all the different groups/events/mixers/meetings! So, here's a one-stop hub for all kinds of different networking opportunities happening in the l …

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 …

We are a group of dedicated local business professionals  in Contra Costa County. Meetings are every Wednesday at 11:30am. We offer members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Benefits of Networking with Our Group Increased exposure to many other people and businesses. Substantially increased referrals. Participation in up to 52 networking meetings per year. Educational material on networking, public speaking, and business. Participation in busin …

The SDSU business networking group was started to unite San Diego State alumni who are seeking to create business networks and referral opportunities with fellow Aztecs in the East Bay. The purpose of the group is to organize events where fellow Aztecs can get together to build relationships, share ideas, trade business cards...and maybe share a pint while rooting on the red & black. If you're an SDSU grad looking to create fellowship and business networking opportunities then this group is for …

We share ideas and quality business referrals in a supportive and focused environment. We're unique because only one person per profession joins. Thus, none of your competitors will get in on the referrals. The Prosperity Network is for those whom we can refer business and who are interested in generating a steady source of referral business.

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.