… Jeff Clavier: Managing Partner at SoftTech VC, with a talk on how he got started in venture capital, and some insight into the future of the world of investing. Peter Sims: Writer of the book "Little Bets", with a talk on how entrepreneurs need to take it one step at a time with small incremental improvements.

StartUP Product Talks is an event for people passionate about process necessary to guarantee that products are being developed that create, serve and invigorate the market, delight users, have design integrity, inspire ecosystems and make a difference for every human involved with breathing life into and consuming that product. We started StartUp Product Talks to facilitate conversations about the many common challenges faced by people who identify as professional product managers, AND those who …

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 Twit …

GITPRO is a networking platform for India Technology Professionals for their professional and self development and them contributing back to the community and India with their leadership, innovation, skills and resources.   http://www.gitpro.org

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This is going to be THE group to join for information on user analytics, big data, software engineering, mobile, enterprise, business intelligence, social media, social metrics and social network applications. Our speaker series is where you will meet with people from all backgrounds and philosophies that are passionate about the analytics space.    

We're a group dedicated to hosting discussions of all things web technology.  From the backend to the frontend and everything in between!   http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cbsi-tech-talks http://www.youtube.com/user/CBSiTechTalks

This group is the West Coast version of the Manhattan-based ed tech meet up that brings educators, ed tech entrepreneurs and investors together to create a cultural shift in the way we teach, learn and thrive as a community. We have teacher panels, entrepreneur presentations and investor feedback in a bi-monthly meetup series. It's a great place to talk about apps, community, politics, funding, education, training and professional development for a 21st Century global education system.

This group aims to bring together software professionals who work with Renewable Energy projects. The group's name is: Software for Renewable Energy or SWRE. SWRE should be pronounced like the French word: soiree. As such, we are all very valuable party-goers in this industry and the more we talk and work together, the greater impact we'll all have. Potential topics for meetups include: * presentations/demos of RE related projects we're all working on * discussions of what tools and technologies …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on personal finance or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups.   To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services.   Although we welcome everyone there is not …

Build a successful startup by learning from the experience of other lean startups. Every other month we invite a Lean Startup expert to come speak to the group at UCSF. Past speakers include Eric Ries, Steve Blank and David Weekly. After the talk we stay for drinks and discussion. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

With there being a lack of Social Media PR meetup groups out here I decided it would be a great time to start one. The purpose of this group is to bring people in the tech startup PR field together to meet and talk about strategy, methods and opportunities. You should join if you are 1. In PR 2. Want to be in PR 3. Are not in PR but want to meet PR people 4. In the tech startup industry 5. If you just want to join to see what we're up to.6. Want to be in the tech startup industry I will be pl …

A forum to learn about real-world industry applications of Python and related tech. Each month we will invite speakers from local businesses to talk about business critical applications they have implemented in Python and their experience along the way. Contact us directly if you would like to propose speakers or topics for future meetings.

Bringing together creative people from the Silicon Valley community in health communications, health industries and in tech to foster conversations about how health care communications and new innovations can help engage, educate, empower and improve the health of people and the community. You might be a doctor that uses something as simple as email, or a programmer that knows what it's like to visit a doctor's office.... point being you are not required to be a healthcare or social media maste …

Greetings! Thanks for your interest in our group. We're glad you're here. Our group is about sharing, teaching, learning, and networking around current and future web-related geospatial and social networking applications and technology. We meet regularly on the third Tuesday evening of every other month at Google in Silicon Valley, California. For two hours we build fellowship around web 2.0, mashups, maps, programming, GIS, entrepreneurship, LBS, imaging, social networks, well-funded and unfund …

Welcome to the Meetup group for TEDxConstitutionDrive!  The theme for TEDxConstitutionDrive 2010 was "Trust". Trust as both a noun and a verb.  In a small venue with about 60 people, we explored different perspectives on trust that go beyond the basic morality and reach into business, technology and neuroscience to arrive at sometimes surprising conclusions.  We heard perspectives from Anant Agrawal, vending frontierman and co-founder of Cantaloupe Systems Paige Craig, entrepreneur and …