Come meet the angels of TCA at our next "Entrepreneur Happy Hour."  Let's talk about your business plan, tips for starting successful companies, or anything you want to know about Tech Coast Angels. Our goal is to create an open forum in which local entrepreneurs can have easy access to active angel investors. We’ll bring the investors…. It is free to attend and we have a no-host bar, but seats are very limited and you have to RSVP to attend. Who should come? If you are an entrepreneur who wa …

THIS GROUP IS CLOSED. Go to www.CEOspaceSDcounty.com CEO Space is the world's oldest, largest & most successful network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors. CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth. CEO Space was founded by Berny Dohrmann, whose father was a mentor to Walt …

JFE (Jews For Entrepreneurship) Network is the leading and largest organization and platform for connecting entrepreneurs and investors, and accelerating innovation in the Jewish community nationwide. We launched in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in November 2009. We opened a chapter in New York City in 2012 and are now bringing the Silicon Valley spirit of entrepreneurship to San Diego and other U.S. locations. Over the past 3 years we have hosted numerous pitch events, seminars, speaker pane …

Are you a minority entrepreneur with the next great Billion Dollar idea? Have you founded a $Million dollar company and want to share your knowledge? Now is an exciting time for entrepreneurs of all kinds, and we want to create a community and ecosystem to attract, cultivate, mentor and support the next great entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds. We believe changing the world begins with entrepreneurs. With less than 1% of venture backed startups founded by African-American or Hispanic/ Latino A …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

SOCAL Business Ties group meetings where Trendsetters, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Start Ups come together to Engage, Network, Mentor, Collaborate, Participate and Innovate. You will meet our contributors who are high achievers and successful in their own right, considered experts in their field of industry. Check out their profiles at www.caypen.com. Gain access to people who have “been there” and “done that” including venture capital financing, authors, a renowned industrial designer, an i …

OC Lean Startup Circle is the Orange County Chapter for the lean startup movement. It is hosted by K5. The OC Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that are focused on building products that matter, based on focused customer discovery, market opportunity and the right timing. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success f …

This group is all about bringing together ideas, execution, and funding. There is movement happening in Southern California and we can all take part in this experiment to make it the next big hub of successful startups. Please join us whether you just have an idea, you are on the development side, you are a doer, an investor, a lean practitioner, or just want to meet future successful entrepreneurs in your community.

Who we are? Disruptive Thinkers influences global leadership by disrupting existing public policy conventions through crowdsourced solutions, capturing the best military and entrepreneurial perspectives. We act as a catalyst for societal and market-based innovation. Disruptive Thinkers is a decentralized think tank composed of civilian entrepreneurs and young military leaders. Ideas, not ideology, are our source of inspiration. We are the young innovators of our generation, tired of divisive pol …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

The United States of America JOBS Act enacted on April 5th, 2012 allows a person or company to raise funds through many investors. Crowdfunding and its many investment possibilities have been put into the spotlight. This group will host mixers to discuss the pros and cons of crowdfunding, the platforms available for crowdfunding, and the types of crowdfunding investors will be looking for. Investors, business owners, startups, entrepreneurs and more are invited to join us!

A group of seasoned entrepreneurs and leaders from various San Diego and California organizations have banded together to form the Startup California San Diego Region! Startup San Diego and Startup California are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. It's also backed by the Case Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young companies that …

SOCAL Business Ties group meetings where Trendsetters, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Start Ups come together to Engage, Network, Mentor, Collaborate, Participate and Innovate. You will meet our contributors who are high achievers and successful in their own right, considered experts in their field of industry. Check out their profiles at www.caypen.com. Gain access to people who have “been there” and “done that” including venture capital financing, authors, a renowned industrial designer, an i …

This group has been created for Entrepreneurs serious about networking, learning and promoting other group members. This group will meet monthly at various Orange County venues. Meetings will feature guest speakers and networking.

This group will put together professionals and investors who want to put together one or more companies in early 2012. We want to help those that have good ideas or more. Focus will be mostly Tech, Marketing and Media.

The San Diego Sun is priceless, we all agree on that but as a start up city we need a lot more than just the Sun to catch up with Tech Hubs such as Silicon Valley. We need to do it our way…. the San Diego way!.... the Happy Hour way! Imagine SD Tech Happy Hour as a City wide bar where Web Developers meet charismatic Founders, Entrepreneurs meet the next Investors and Legal Team and App Designers come up with their next big thing right before the happy hour ends. We are all about Happy Hours, Tec …

Hello and Welcome! This group is for entrepreneurs affiliated with UCSD through the undergraduate, graduate and UCSD Extension programs.  We especially welcome aspiring students, inventors and entrepreneurs as they are the future and hold within their imagination the future Qualcomms, Facebooks and Amazons of the world. Lastly, we welcome the valuable perspectives that those in the active business community bring as they are the ones in the “trenches” and thus bring a strong connection to the re …

This group is NOT a place for MLM or for selling a product. This group IS a place to brainstorm and discuss all aspects of setting and reaching goals. Format: Brainstorm - small group discussing challenges and solutions, setting goals and deadlines, sharing and learning from each other. Up to 5 members. Guest Speakers - once every 3 months we will have a guest speaker sharing their experience as a goal setter. Up to 50 members. Breakthru Social - once a month we will choose a bigger venue/drinks …

Meet other locals from all Industries to discuss your Business Ideas and Strategies. Gather to discuss current events, share experiences, and to network with other people interested in Business. CEO Space has helped thousands of business owners raise BILLIONS of dollars over the last 20 years. We help Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Inventors, Authors, Speakers, and Investors with - Power Networking - Positioning your company as a “capital magnet” - Building a Supe …

The purpose of this group is to inspire people to learn, network and expose themselves to a group of Conscious Entrepreneurs. Conscious Entrepreneurs are defined as individuals and organizations who recognize a social problem and use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a Conscious entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact on society as well as in …