We have Startups come in and do their "pitch" for Funding . Members ask questions, advise, then vote on value of best product or service. Startups can be recommended to a Biz Coach, Financial Analyst, Angel Investor or Venture Capitalist, as appropriate. If you want to do a Pitch, you must be pre-screened by the Organizer or his representative. Send in your Pitch for review. If you need help, just contact me for limited “free” Consulting. If you just want to come and see how it's done, you're …

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 …

Founders helping Founders About Let's get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them. This group focuses on issues that technology startup entrepreneurs run into when building the startup. We will meet at HackerDojo or Microsoft Bizspark labs in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. Events include brown bag lunch sessions, pitching events and other startup related events. Brown Bag Lunch sessions These are group discussion sessions with a small numb …

We work closely with smart, creative and insanely hardworking startup founders to help them focus their product’s value proposition, refine their product and pitch to investors and ultimately make personal introductions to help get their companies the resources and funding they need to scale. More info at: www.founderbase.net This is a monthly meet that brings together promising entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and around the world.  Join us for founder’s brunch, interactive panel discussion, o …

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 …

The startupPerColator Series is dedicated to the startup community. Our dynamic and interactive seminar series is a forum for entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the startup ecosystem to learn business and legal best practices, build their networks and grow their businesses. We host the series in our Palo Alto or San Francisco offices, and participants will be offered a savory complimentary breakfast, lunch or evening hors d'oeuvres.

Who will benefit from participating in SVCrowdfund? Private investors (VCs and Business Angels) who want to learn about the opportunities crowdfunding creates for them Startups and innovators examining their fundraising options Crowdfunding platforms wanting promote their portals in the capital of innovation and private investments Marketing Specialists, Legal Advisors, CPAs looking for new clients and partners Students interested in getting involved in private investment or marketing business; …

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group, world's largest mobile entrepreneurs community! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, HTML5 , Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur commu …

Welcome to Women Startup Lab You are a passionate StartUp Woman! You are a Startup Founder, a Startup CTO, a Startup Wantrapreneur! You Got What it Takes! Now Connect with Others & You've got a Team! Join us to get the best of our Women's Startup Ecosystem to help you succeed. - Women Founders & Startup Speaker Series - Attend our intimate Speaker Series by Female Founders, VCs and Angels who will address your challenges and opportunities, and share their wisdom and real life experiences on wh …

Startup Speakers Toastmasters Club sharpens your public speaking/presentation/pitching skills in a safe, comfortable environment. Many of our club members are entrepreneurs in startup companies or work directly with startup companies. Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. Startup Speakers Toastmasters Club meets at the Plug and Play Tech Center. Plug and Play is well …

Help with all aspects of the startup process. Brainstorm with others. Work on pitches, listen to others. Help with funding & more.

We all can be better at pitching our ideas to others. How do I know what style I should use? Is my audience into it? How do I adjust on-the-fly? What should I say what should I not say? Does my pitch suck? How can I make it better? We meet up weekly to practice our pitch on others and receive feedback on how to make it better. We practice several different formats: one sentence, elevator, 3 min. and 5 min. with or without a deck. Body language, communication, nonverbal's, context and style are j …

We are a crowd of innovative problem solvers that want to change the world. The goal of our meetup is to pair entrepreneurs with passionate co-founders/team members (tech and/or business), and investors/mentors/advisers. This meetup is a great opportunity to meet awesome individuals, practice your elevator pitch, and learn. With that being said, we would love to have freelance developers, designers, and marketers that want to join forces with entrepreneurs at an early stage of a project.

This meetup is for startuppers and entrepreneurs and other professionals who like to mentor and nurture creative minds. This meetup will provide a platform for those seeking funding, ideas, co-founders etc by bringing them together through networking. WE WELCOME PITCH HIKERS.

AgoraStartupIdol.com (ASI) is simply an online version of the Silicon Valley pitch contest over video conferencing. ASI provides traction to its via BeInToo's Gamification layer which incentivizes audience members for preferred behaviors through points, rewards and prizes. ASI's mission is to provide startups strong traction. Something they have been on their own to attract until now. ASI's goals are to get all contestants some level of new users and at least one over 100,000 new users.

My name is Japjot Sethi and I created Startup Cookout. I love to cook and eat great food, which inspired me to create Startup Cookout. Startup Cookout is a group for Entrepreneurs that enjoy talking to other Entrepreneurs, help in any way they can and share their Ideas with others, but also love food. Our goal is to get Entrepreneurs together once a month to Network, hear about great Ideas and enjoy some great food. At Startup Cookout, We would request every Entrepreneur to submit their idea and …

This is a meetup for folks who are interviewing for YCombinator for the summer 2013 batch. Come relax at red rock cafe and discuss your experience!

This meetup is for Entrepreneurs and like minded people to come together, network, attend TiE Silicon Valley's Events,  Fostering Entrepreneurship and create long lasting relationships.

TechRaising was founded in 2011 to support local communities efforts in sustaining tech ecosystems. We aim to provide the space and support for individuals to gather, collaborate, and build their ideas. It is the melding of experience, expertise and execution that allows tech projects to flourish. The innaugaral TechRaising was held in May 2011 at Cruzio. Over 100 people participated, 38 ideas were pitched, 8 were built in 48 hours, and 2 received funding. Tech icon Scott McNealy gave a thought …

Please join us for a lively discussion of emerging developments in PreK-12 digital learning in and across formal and informal environments. Co-hosted by Stanford University Graduate School of Education Professor Roy Pea with the U.S. Department of Education's Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology and OET's Deputy Director, Richard Culatta, this meet up will be of interest to you as an ed-tech innovator or entrepreneur; learning sciences and technology researcher; or innov …

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 …

Tech Connect This group is for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, tech startups, investors, and small businesses. Tech Connect was designed for the technically minded that believe learning is a life long endeavor. In this day and age, technology and ideas are constantly evolving.  Tech Connect features active experts in their fields who lecture on relevant and useful topics.  Tech Connect's interactive events are tailor made to allow for group networking. Speakers Workshops Pitches Co-founder pairin …

If you've always wanted to get a book published and didn't know how, this meetup group will teach you the steps. · Learn how to pitch your book at a conference · Demystify the query letter and get steps on how to write one · Develop your author platform before you are even published We'll explore traditional publishing and self-publishing, and everything in between, and break down the right publishing steps for you into manageable chunks so you can integrate writing and publishing into your dail …

We represent angel investors and investment funds in the valley whom are providing seed funding for App. developers to grow their businesses. We will be planning a monthly meet where we invite all developers to pitch their ideas. We welcome any kind of idea as long as long as they are related to mobile apps or apps for IP T.V. Join our group, share your ideas, and a best date to meet se we can organize our next event this August.

The Digital Media SIG (special interest group) meets 5 times per year to explore the emerging concepts and platforms that are constantly reshaping "digital media" as we know it. New platforms are mobile, new currencies are virtual, and the reality has been augmented. A generation has grown up digital, and the game is increasingly social. The Digital Media SIG is the place to find the talent and projects that will reshape the territory in ways we haven't yet thought of. Have your own ideas about …

A community for people interested in new and emerging technologies for the food industry, including R&D, production and distribution. We plan to have mixers where FoodTechies can meet face to face and technical events including presentations and pitch sessions involving tech companies in the food space. Note: this is not another "foodie" group (although you can be a foodie) - our interest is in developing and exploiting new technologies, including inventors, producers, entreprenuers, angels and …

Ever heard of speed dating? Well, we're doing the same thing, but for business networking. For FREE! We gather a bunch of professionals in one cafe or bar. Set up tables for 2 they can sit at. Ask one of the people at each table to rotate when the time's up. And rotate every 3 minutes until everyone got a chance to talk to everyone else. Attending our events gives you the chance to meet several dozen potential partners or business contacts in one evening, practice your elevator pitch, hear how …

AfriTank is a support network geared towards budding entrepreneurs in the diaspora who wish to do business on The Continent. We meet up with the premise that accountability and feedback are great ways to ensure our ideas move forward and become tangible ventures that will help transform the African society. The agendas for our meet up will consist of brainstorming, business plan development, and mock investor presentations where ideas are pitched and critiqued by the group. Our mission is to con …