Thanks for your interest in California Crowd Funding. Why This Group?      This group is needed to rally public support for a crowd funding law letting entrepreneurs raise startup money from the general public. Silicon Valley and California is bursting with small companies ready to launch. The 2008 crash slowed Angel investments in startups.      So to create new jobs and let people pursue their business dreams, a California Crowd Funding exemption is needed.      Crowd funding lets the general …

… We talk about competition, citizen journalism, funding and more. * Networking: We hold FREE informal networking sessions to give our members a chance to share job leads, business cards and a few laughs.  

Bootstrappers Anonymous is an entrepreneurship group for small non-funded companies of 1-3 people in San Francisco, CA who are faced with problems related to growing their startup businesses. We use a peer facilitation methodology based on Co-counselling using simple methods that can be seen as a refinement of "you tell me your problems and I'll tell you mine", along with some Scrum practices like discussing priorities and then reporting on progress. The most immediate way to participate in the …

RocketSpace is an all inclusive shared office space and accelerator for tech & new media companies with a focus on post incubator, seed funded companies. We are a home to over 100 startups and host many successful events.  

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 …

        FASHION+TECHSF (formerly FashionMashup) is the longest running monthly workshop and event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology entrepreneurs, designers, developers, bloggers, business professionals, students, investors and numerous enthusiastic companies, schools, groups and individuals who share our vision of a world-class fashion and technology industry that is innovative, disr …

Women in tech welcomes men and women equally. We hold pitch events, classes and networking activities! If you would like to present at one of our pitch events then submit your information to: http://www.startupsaturdays.net/submityourstartup/ Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded Its all possible when you take the initiative! Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/womentech/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StartupSaturdays Twitter: http://twitter.com/Startup99 Web …

At Startup Saturdays you find people who can help you take your business to the next level. Submit your Startup: http://www.startupsaturdays.net/submityourstartup/  Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded Its all possible when you take the initiative! Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/StartupSaturdays/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StartupSaturdays Twitter: http://twitter.com/Startup99 Website: www.startupsaturdays.net Submit your Startup: http://www.startups …

Social Media Everywhere is for Bay Area PR and marketing pros interested in learning more about the practical applications of new media in business. Whats hot in Social Media, and company's you should be working with. Come learn, share, and network like crazy!   If you are interested in having your company present, please drop me an email, or call our office at 415-501-9155     Thanks, Toby Morning

StartUpBnB is an entrepreneur led accelerator. We turn entrepreneurs into VCs by putting startups in charge of deal screening, review, due diligence and funding decisions. Rather then rely on VCs to decide what startups should get funded we think entrepreneurs are better at understanding business ideas, what works, what's hot. Entrepreneurs rate and review each other, decide what startups advance to next round and funding. About events: Our events serve as the Start Up Beers & Burgers is a crowd …

Soroptimist is an international volunteer service organization for business and professional women that works to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Soroptimist International of San Francisco is part of Soroptimist International, comprising almost 100,000 members in about 120 countries around the world. If you would like to know more about the Soroptimist, please also see our website at http://www.soroptimist.org The heart of Soroptimist's mis …

Passionate fans of avid ideas who wish to transform the future of advertising should join this group! If you have funded an ad on LoudSauce and want to meetup at the site of the LIVE ad, you may join! If you haven't funded an ad, but are excited about the mission...you should still attend these meetups! And even cooler, you and your friends may even be on the bottom of the ads we visit! (with your consent via LoudSauce of course!)

We are a friendly group of diverse individuals looking for good conversation and making new friends while out enjoying activities such as Hiking, Outdoor events, Charity events, Karaoke, Dinning out and fundraisers or whatever else we think will be social and fun. These events will be mostly Coastal around the SF Peninsula Area (between Daly City and Redwood City). This group is open to singles and couples- with no preference to either..   [i][b]A few more things that you need to know:[/b][/i …

Cloud Mafia's mission is to bring together developers who are interested in tipping a few beers and talking about the latest Cloud technologies. The meetup is funded & organized by four Trinity Venture startups: Loggly ,DotCloud, and New Relic. Signup and learn about the next meetup in San Francisco.

    IGNITE! kicks off Tuesday March 13 at 5 PM at RocketSpace, 181 Fremont Street n San Francisco.    Hummer Winblad is our sponsoring VC and Mitchell Kertzman, Managing Director, is our Keynote Speaker.  If you are interested in pitching please go to www.ignitefundraisers.com . Ten companies will have demo tables and the top four startups, picked by attendees, will have an opportunity to pitch to a distinguished panel of VC and Angels. The winner gets a pitch session at Hummer Winblad!!  If you …

JumpStartDays is a program that provides free mentoring, feedback, and resources from angel investors and VCs to seed stage pre-funded, pre-revenue tech entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.jumpstartdays.com.