StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

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 …

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

We meet in Downtown San Francisco and discuss iOS and Objective-C related topics, meet other developers and other interesting folks. Tech talks, workshops, hack-athons and more. Meet other iOS developers, find out about interesting projects and opportunities for work and potential employment. Join the group and you'll get a weekly NSMeetup newsletter. Please No Recruiters or Job Postings. If you are interested in posting a job please contact the organizer - Steve Derico. Speaking at NSMeetup If …

Bringing designers + geeks together to talk shop, startups, and do some knowledge sharing. All types of designers + geeks welcome. Designers + Geeks Newsletter All Designers + Geeks events, news, and giveaways are announced through our newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: Join The Designers + Geeks Newsletter We hate spam, and will only use your contact info for Designers + Geeks news. Connect with us on Twitter & Facebook: @DesignersGeeks Facebook Page

This group is for developers/startups that are interested in creating apps for smart glass technology, i.e. google glass project and vuzix smart glasses. We hope to work together on ideas and coding but since this technology is not available yet to the public it will have to rely on members bringing their own resources if possible and sharing with the rest of the group. We will host MeetUps with speakers and networking. Please feel free to contact one of the organizers if you can sponsor a MeetU …

Homoto is a queer sportbike club with chapters in San Francisco, CA and San Jose, CA. If you are interested in learning more about Homoto, email us at ride (at) homoto.us, visit our website http://www.homoto.us/ or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/HomotoMC

FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHSF.org has become the leading network for all things fashion and technology in Silicon …

Missions: This meetup group is all about getting YOU FUNDED!!! It's also a very fun and interactive group as we have on  the last Wed. of each month we partner with Plug & Play Tech Center for Pitch Demo to Investors. If you have a project that falls in any of the categories listed in http://www.gazillionfund.com, feel free to send me your excerpt. All of our own meetup events are free, and we even provide food to most of them! And this meetup group also provides free passes or discounted price …

Join one of the fastest growing community of single professionals! Our mission is to connect and engage contemporary single professionals with community organizations and local events. We provide business and social networking opportunities within our vibrant community and a rich social calendar filled with interesting activities. Connect with new friends who share similar interests in our network of active single professionals. Our events includes community service, charity fundraisers, speaker …

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 created THE ART OF ACTIVE NETWORKING to help you do better and to make better, genuine ACTIVE connections, And people from all careers, well employed to unemployed attend. Check out our site at http://www.TheArtofActiveNetworking.com. At THE BOX SF, we give artists, musicians and foodies a unique new home in which to collaborate and build their art as well as their following. At The Box SF you will taste and sip something fantastic, see and hear some wonderful things and you will experience a …

San Francisco Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch. The leadership team is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch. Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment. Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the San Francisco, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to prac …

With one million users in over 185 countries, EFactor is the world’s largest network for entrepreneurs. We provide all the resources a small business owner would need to build their startup: investor funding, advice from experts, discounts on business tools, networking, and more. We hosts international networking events, where we bring top executives to come speak to local entrepreneurs. Join our SF and the Bay Area meetup group to stay connected, receive discounts, and be the first one to sign …

Fringe It's better on the edge The indie music video dance party! http://www.fringesf.com/ DJ Blondie K & subOctave spin the best indie music videos all night with radical visual effects from artists such as: Cut Copy * Robyn * La Roux * Passion PIt * Marina and the Diamonds * Little Boots * Calvin Harris * Friendly Fires * The Ting Tings * CSS * Ladyhawke * Chromeo * Yelle * LCD Soundsystem * Daft Punk * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Franz Ferdinand * The Limousines * Phoenix * MGMT * Miike Snow * Hot …

You are playing an unusual form of interactive entertainment. A COMPUTER is here, displaying mostly text. In accordance with tradition, the text is written in the SECOND PERSON. There is a group of PEOPLE here, and they are talking about INTERACTIVE FICTION. "Join us!" they call out. "It'll be fun!" > (Also follow us on Twitter and Facebook!)

We've combined the power of NetSquared & NTEN's 501 Tech Clubs to create San Francisco Tech4Good. We gather to explore an aspect of how technology is being leveraged for social impact projects. We see a big opportunity to share experiences and take action on local and global issues. We're part of a global network of grassroots-organized communities across North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa, all exploring social tech tools for social change. We come from a variety of organiz …

SOCIALLY GREEN is the Meetup group of GreenStreetSF.org. GreenStreetSF.org is a professional networking group for anyone from ecologically-minded consumers to green entrepreneurs and startups who want to connect with other professionals and innovators in the burgeoning green industry landscape. Our mission is to promote education and economic development for green initiatives in fashion, design and technology and awareness about better living through sustainable practice and greener lifestyle ch …

The Ideal Summer Adult Destination! Ski but don't own a boat? No Worries! Meet New People Ski, Board, Skate & Surf Free Weekend to boat owners Equipment to borrow Discounts at local retailers We are adults (single/married - 21 & over) from the SF/Sacramento Nor Cal Area. We organize ski trips twice a month during the summer. We ski, board and/or surf. Each person who attends a weekend event is assigned to a boat for the day & another for the next. The day is spent on the water soaking up the s …

The San Francisco SPCA has been saving the lives of cats and dogs in San Francisco for 143 years. As the leader in the no-kill shelter movement, the SF SPCA finds new homes for over 4,000 animals a year and treats thousands more through community outreach programs. The SF SPCA mission is to end animal abandonment by reducing the population through aggressive spay/neuter campaigns, by providing resources and information to people to keep animals in the home, and by strengthening the human-animal …

FASHION STARTUPS. ~ Pitch your fashion startup, mobile app or retail business, share your portfolio, receive feedback, connect with possible investors or vc's and network with other professionals in the local fashion industry. Follow us on TWITTER Connect with us at GOOGLE+ Like us on FACEBOOK Join us on MEETUP Read our BLOG Join us on LINKEDIN

We are a Silicon Valley (San Francisco) meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to hack current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education  — please join us.  You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @EduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesting speakers from the tec …

San Francisco Style and Fashion Bloggers is a social group for fashion & style bloggers in San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley and the Meetup group of Fashion Bloggers Connect. This Meetup group is a place for fashion and style bloggers to connect, share writing skills knowledge, learn new marketing approaches, style tips and fashion ideas. Attend exclusive blogging workshops, social mixers, tech demo nights, beauty product launches, shopping discounts and styling events. Become an early …

Welcome to SHE TALKS Forum [Empowering Women To Become Successful Community Leaders] This Meetup is for Women Empowerment. Workshops and event series for women leaders and empowering all women. Mission: To enrich women's capabilities both in their personal and professional lives. To create a platform where women can discuss women's issues & share their experiences about successes and triumph to inspire others. Join STF : http://www.meetup.com/SheTalks/ Follow STF  on Twitter: https://twitter.c …

Writing Poetry!!! Let's share our poetry so that we can fine tune it and get it out there for publication. New additions to the group, as of June 7 2009, which are in-development: 1. website http://www.poetswanted.com 2. twitter account for quick updates on events, etc. - http://www.twitter.com/poetswanted 3. community blog: http://poetswanted.blogspot.com/ 4. Organizer's poems, haiku blog/tweets: http://www.fishridingabike.com/poetry.html

Startup Saturdays is all about empowering the global community through offering knowledge to enhance leadership, entrepreneurship and technical skills. With the knowledge and skillset taught though Startup Saturdays individuals are able to explore new business and career opportunities that lead to a better quality of life and higher earnings. Explore new pathways for your life by attending one of our classes. We are here to assist individuals with personal growth and help eliminate unsightly hu …

This Meet Up Community is for helping entrepreneurs and startups learn how to expand their creativity around business ideas, problem-solving, and team building to produce expansive results and competitive advantage. This group is being set up to offer a platform and space for creative coaching and guidance to help overcome challenges and learn new ways to be innovative- it makes having a problem, 'fun'. Did you know that most of us are trained automatically, through our education and societal sy …