Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

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 …

This group is for bringing together virtual switching, software defined networking, OpenFlow, openvswitch, VXLAN professionals & entrepreneurs together. Follow us on twitter @nvirters

The Creative Suite User Group of San Jose was established to provide professionals in San Jose and surrounding areas a venue for networking and learning about the latest in Adobe Software. Our monthly meetings will feature a prominent guest speaker who will focus on tips/tricks, integration between Adobe apps, and streamlining your workflow for more efficient business practices. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to make our user group the best possible of its kind. We look forward to see …

This group is the social place for  tea lovers, entrepreneurs. We host different type of social events including tea, wine, music. Lets make startup process fun and meet the like minds ! Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Startup-Tea-House-iOS-Android-1814061 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/svteahouse Please like our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/svteahouse David Cao Organizer & Tea Master

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 …

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" ~ Steve Jobs Welcome!  Thank you for joining!  If you are new to Ruby on Rails or an intermediate, advanced Ruby on Rails Engineer - you will love this group! I plan on offering the following: 1.  Variety of Ruby on Rails classes.  These classes will be offered for beginning RoR developers or intermediate/advanced level. 2.  Presentations given by guest speakers(RoR developers) from great startups. 3 …

This is a group for anyone who currently leads, organizes, manages and engages online communities. We started this group as a way to exchange best practices, share challenges and solutions, and ignite ideas! If you are a community manger or leader, or want to be - you know that the success of your great idea and awesome product rests with a strong and passionate community. Learn tips and tricks from community managers from large organizations, non-profits and start-ups. Community Hacks is a plac …

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Club Anyone is eligible to join! SVET Club is a chartered Toastmasters club. We meet every Thursday from noon to 1:30pm for our standard toastmaster meeting. We provide also monthly open-house meeting with additional networking sessions for entrepreneurs, startup business partners, investors and general public. All guests are welcome to all of our weekly and monthly meetings as well as all other events. We are non-profit educational organization allowin …

Hello and Welcome to CodeChix-BayArea!! Please join us here and on any of our social media (FB, G+, LinkedIn, Twitter) if you are a: Female developer (please join us also on http://groupspaces.com/codechix) Female or Male Project/Program/Product Manager Supportive and open-minded MALE developer Young person (>8 years old) aspiring to learn coding NO RECRUITERS OR RECRUITING ALLOWED. NO SOLICITATIONS For Personal or Business needs. And now a little bit about us (also check out our Skill-Levels …

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 Silicon Valley, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to practice your pit …

Please follow us on twitter @ieeescvgold and like us on Facebook! IEEE - GOLD Silicon Valley What is GOLD? GOLD is the Graduates of the Last Decade affinity group of the IEEE. We are an outreach group of the IEEE focused on getting new members involved with the IEEE, especially those who have graduated recently. Our focus is to provide networking (social), technical and professional development events. If you are not a graduate of the last decade though you are still more than welcome to attend …

What is this Meetup group about? This Meetup group features an ongoing series of classes on core Ruby on Rails web and mobile technologies that can enable you to build and deploy a sophisticated web or mobile application. Our goal is to have a Meetup class on a new topic about every two weeks. Who is it for? If you are looking to become a competent intermediate-level (maybe advanced!) full-stack Ruby on Rails web and mobile developer, then this Meetup is for you! Some prior computer programming …

Hello, My name is Mirella, AKA: EVE, the Reinvention Maven, and I am the organizer and creator of the Do You EVE? concept and founder of Do You EVE? Institute. What is it that YOU are missing out of your life? Do you Elevate your dreams, Visualize your future, and Eliminate your fears? I have developed the Do You EVE? system to help others transition in their lives, reinvent themselves and get the most of what life has to offer.  The Do You EVE? principal is that you do not let things happen to …

The Purpose of this Meetup Group is to work with Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners to use Web 2.0 and Social Media to Webify their businesses. In today's world, Entrepreneurs must utilize the tools now available to be successful. We will be using Patrick Schwerdtfeger's book, WEBIFY YOUR BUSINESS, a comprehensive and detailed marketing road map, as our guide to your success in Web 2.0 Marketing. Some of what we will cover is: - Using Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and other social media site …

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

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 …

In Japanese, "ai" means "love" ... so "ai explore" in this case translates to "I LOVE to explore!" What do we explore? Experiences! What kind of experiences? Ones that inspire love, optimism, fulfillment, interpersonal connection, and community-in-action. Ai Explore is the explorer's club dedicated to uncovering the optimism in everyone, everywhere. JOIN US in exploring, uncovering, and participating in the fullness Earth has to offer! We explore experiences like … Volunteerism - Animal shelters …

Come meet other Recent College Grads in the San Francisco Bay Area! Have you recently graduated college? This past spring or in the last few years? It can be tough leaving behind your college buds for the real world. Whether you're a local looking to expand your circle of friends, or a new transplant to the Bay Area, it can be tough meeting good people. Even more so for us younger folks under 30. Internet sites are often reserved for the older crowd, but now there's an easy way to meet young pro …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralightstartu …

Meditation. Sounds a little boring, doesn't it? Well, it doesn't have to be! Come find out how easy — and FUN! — meditation can be at our Meditation Meetup. It's a safe environment with an experienced teacher, and best of all, it's free! You'll learn everything you need to know to start a practice that can really change your life. Or, if you're an old-time meditator (is that a word?) looking for the jumpstart of a new technique, this class is for you. No obligation, we're not trying to sell yo …

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 . …

This is meetup group for Intuit QuickBooks for Mac. We don't get out of our office in Mountain View, CA very often (we're writing all that code!). But when we do, we'd love to meet you, answer any questions, or just say "hi." If you're a small business owner using a Mac, whether you're a current user or not, please join to find out about our Meetups. And we love our Intuit ProAdvisors, too! Even if you're on QuickBooks for Windows, if you have Mac clients, you may have questions for us. You can …

Instagramers Silicon Valley is a group of Instagramers from around Silicon Valley who banded together to coordinate events in and around Silicon Valley. Find us on Instagram at @igerssv Facebook Fan Page on.fb.me/igerssv follow on twitter at @igerssv Email at igerssiliconvalley@gmail.com

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

A group for Stanford Entrepreneurs & Silicon Valley Founders who have a burning desire to grow their Startup & are looking for 1st 100, 1000 & 10,000 customers. Tweets @IgniterSV Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Igniter/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/igniterSV/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4970423 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordIgniter/

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

Internet marketing is an exciting and rewarding field. Powerful new tools and technologies allow even the smallest businesses access to global markets and potentially huge profits. Unfortunately there's also plenty of hype and misinformation around. What really works? How do you separate the solid techniques from the snake oil? And given all the possible things you could do to promote a business online, what should you FOCUS on? We'll explore best practices in email marketing, search en …