Philadelphia Startup Pitch Night focuses on providing monthly opportunities for you to practice, refine, and perfect your startup pitches.  We also provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. Philadelphia Startup Pitch Night's events are run by a leadership team that works to find the meeting venues and plan out and execute all the Meetup events.  Our mission is to be known as …

The business of being a social / wellness entrepreneur certainly wasn't taught in school. It can be difficult to develop, manage, account for, and market your business. The most important things can often be over looked when the other things get in the way. We want to help make it easier! The Foster & Grow MeetUp group is compromised of social good / wellness professionals looking for more support developing and running our businesses. We've found it difficult to focus on our professional disci …

MacBUS was the first user group in the U.S. focused on Business and Professional use of Apple's Macintosh operating system. Our members come from a wide variety of professions... artists, attorneys, financial analysts, manufacturers, sales professionals, musicians, and writers. Member experience ranges from novice to expert. As Apple has released iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad mobile devices and software the group's meetings have evolved to product discussions and demonstrations of software, hardw …

RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech Socials provide a casual, unprete …

This group is aimed at technology professionals who are interested in the problem of embedding Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning approaches directly into operational applications and processes that drive the business. The group is programming language and platform agnostic as we plan to open the floor to presentations by technologists working in Java, .NET, R, C++ and whatever other language makes sense. Language choice notwithstanding, the group is interested in use cases, best practi …

A monthly gathering of techies around Princeton. Nerds, creatives, entrepreneurs, and investors welcome! We hope to create a community similar to the NY, NJ (Hoboken), Jersey Shore and Philly Tech Meetup groups, without the long drive for those who live and work in between the metro areas. We want to bring Princeton students and faculty together with experienced professionals so they can benefit from each other's advice, knowledge, experience, perspective, and energy. Each meeting should have so …

It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something t …

Code for Philly—a Code for America Brigade—would like to invite you to come join us.  We are PHL-based developers, designers, catalogers, organizers, and other citizens working to build a better Philadelphia by applying web technology to government and communities.  We meet weekly, usually Tuesday evenings, and work on a variety of projects building PHL 2.0.  You can join an existing project, create a new one, or bring in something you're already working on and get CfP to help out.  We welcome a …

Join THE FIRST Women's Business Book Club on Meetup! Connect with other women business leaders while learning new strategies for success in business and life. Read both classic and contemporary business books, then discuss over a glass of wine and appetizers, and network with other ambitious women. This group is both social and professional. Come ready to debate, explore, enlighten, inspire, and share! All of our meetups are held in Center City. Past books include: Secrets of Six-Figure Women …

A group of eCommerce developers, UI experts, online retailers, executives and marketing professionals. We will provide a monthly pitch from an excitiing Philly eCommerce company. We will also be the "ground zero" for the newest eCommerce technologies. These include technical challengers, eCommerce platforms, user interface, SEO, reducing abandoned shopping carts. Most of all - this will be a great networking meetup for all eCommerce professionals.

Mission Statement The Nikola Tesla Inventors Club was formed to promote the legacy of Nikola Tesla by raising awareness of his accomplishments, picking up where Tesla left off, and furthering his work. We bring together those with a genuine interest in Tesla through educational programs, workshops, meetings, and public events. NTIC also selects several inventors per year who have demonstrated a promising idea that exemplifies Tesla's life and work. We help patent and and bring these ideas to mar …

Non-profits and activists around Philadelphia are increasingly using the web and social software to foster social change. Join Philly NetSquared as we bring together web innovators and social changemakers to socialize, strategize, learn from and inspire one another. For more info, including past Net Tuesday presentations, check out our site at http://phillynetsquared.org. NetSquared is a national organization (http://www.netsquared.org/) with chapters in many cities. Net Tuesdays are independent …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

Meetup with other local professionals who are interested in the Online News Association (ONA). Gather with writers, editors, photographers, producers, technologists and all with an interest in the production of news for digital presentation. For more information or to become a member, check out http://www.journalists.org

Princeton Startup Pitch Night focuses on providing monthly opportunities for you to practice, refine, and perfect your startup pitches.  We also provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Princeton, New Jersey region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. Princeton Startup Pitch Night's events are run by a leadership team that works to find the meeting venues and plan out and execute all the Meetup events.  Our mission is to be known as the place t …

Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast. Compare Notes Exchange Ideas Learn from Others’ Mistakes Brainstorm with Peers Find Partners Small Group Atmosphere Serious Conversation Bootstrappers Breakfasts® meetings are for founders of early stage technology startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. These breakfasts were designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and leverage thoughts with other folks who are serious abou …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Philadelphia Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Philadelphia serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complem …

This group is for business and IT professionals looking for news, in-depth case studies, expert insight, best practices, and product analyses to plan and implement their data analytics and management strategies. We provide decision makers perspective on how they can apply big data concepts and technologies to their business needs. With original insight, ideas, and advice, we also explain the potential risks and benefits of introducing new data technology into existing data systems.

Arts, Culture, Tech & Community NJ is a meetup in Trenton, New Jersey for innovators in the fields of arts, culture, technology, and community organizing to connect with one another and present cutting edge works that cut across sectors. Similar to other ArtsTech meetups we plan to bring together those working at the intersection of the arts and technology such as: *Artists doing interesting work with engineering, biotech, sciences, technology, and social media. *Tech specialists working on inte …

Join this group if you're interested in everything technology.  From hacking on software to demoing the latest gadgets our members are passionate and are interested in learning, sharing and collaborating on all things technology.  We foster a diverse social setting that welcomes interested individuals and offers something for everyone regardless of your technical background. Join the group and have some fun with technology.  If you are interested in starting projects or are currently working on …

The Philadelphia Self Quantifiers group brings together technologists, healthcare professionals and anyone interested in self-improvement through data gathering and analysis.  We'll meet to discuss technologies and techniques that aid in understanding of the physical, mental and psychological. As the group grows, we hope to have regular "show and tell" meetups in which members will share their quantified-self tools. NOTE: This group is intended to replace the Quantified Self Philadelphia that se …

Although professional networking opportunities for attorneys abound, few are geared specifically toward in-house counsel. The purpose of this group is to help change that by facilitating discussion and networking among Philadelphia area in-house lawyers. The group will enable us to share ideas, experiences, questions, anecdotes and even the occassional joke or random thought both online and in person. The group is open to area in-house attorneys exclusively.

Our Meetup group was created to help singles learn to navigate the dating world. We will have social gatherings at different restaurant lounges and chat about the best new ways to connect with other singles. Great tips for both guys and girls.  Insight into the newest mobile technology for dating and how to avoid some of the most common problems...while having fun! Our focus is on making that initial connection successful for singles while chatting about experiences and offering helpful advice i …

Every business needs to thrive and improve both online and offline. Our group meet often to discuss how we can improve our own businesses, provide higher quality products or services, increase customer satisfactions, and increase revenue.

Welcome to “ The Philly Business Networking Group (PhillyBNG)”. Over the last 4 years, our parent company, NYCBNG has earned a stellar reputation as thhe premier networking group in the country.  Each month we host free and paid business networking events to introduce you to the most dynamic business professionals and executives, business owners and entrepreneurs. In August 2011, Ilana Eberson, President of the company, won a spot in the Top 100 Small Business Influencer Award. We are excited …

The MIT Enterprise Forum is the preeminent organization of entrepreneurs in the global innovation economy. Since 1978 the MIT Enterprise Forum has produced programs and events about innovation, technology and entrepreneurship for an engaged community of 50,000+ thought leaders through a worldwide network of chapters. Founded in 1978 as part of the MIT Alumni Association, the MIT Enterprise Forum offers over 400 educational and networking events globally. MIT Enterprise Forum participation and in …

This meetup is dedicated to discussing and advancing the adoption of Internet/Mobile technologies in the Healthcare market. Meetups will focus on networking, new product demonstrations, and hopefully collaborations between group members.

This is a great group for I.T. Professionals to meet outside of the office to relax, socialize, talk about sports, politics, life, and the ever growing world of Information Technology. We emphasize finding new friends and associates with similar backgrounds to network with and do exciting things. Dinners, forums, happy hours, adventures, sporting events, and yes, parties are just a few of the types of activities we will partake.