Internet marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how to utilize these tools to …

We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone. We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to experiment with friends. Welcome to BioCurious Visit the BioCurious homepage http://www.BioCurious.org BioCurious Community Lab Opened in Sunnyvale, CA; Fall 2011! Join the discussion at Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/biocurious Our successful Kickstarter campaign (http://biocu …

Are you someone with an engineering business or an engineering consultant in the Silicon Valley?  Or are you an engineer or entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Silicon Valley Business of Engineering Meetup welcomes engineers from all design disciplines and the businesses that support them such as manufacturing, technical training, and sales of engineering hardware or software tools. We'll have a regular casual mixer event with light refreshments where busines …

Our meet-ups are centered around two goals, assisting entrepreneurs and start-up companies to prepare for taking seed/angel funding and second to educate a next generation of new Angel investors to make better more educated decision on how to tell a good deal form a bad one. Over all to facilitate the launching of more healthy companies that provide a better return for their new investors.

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

South Bay Entrepreneurs will be a deciding force behind economic growth! The South Bay Alliance of Entrepreneurs is a community for CEOs, Small Business Owners, Business Decision Makers, Startup Founders, MBA students, and Innovators. Our mission is to provide peer-to-peer support, bring forward expert resources and information, and to form a support network for entrepreneurs who are leading the economic future of our nation! Join us today for fun, support, community ... and shared success! …

Silicon Valley's Blend of Brown A feminine union of polished leaders This group brings together ALL women of color who seek collaboration and support in their professional careers and businesses. In the Bay Area many women of color have careers that lack mentorship and management from someone that remotely resembles them. Are you one of these women? For example, when it comes to women in technology the numbers fall short. For women of color in the technology industry those numbers are even sm …

Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch. The leadership team is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch. Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment. Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Silicon Valley, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to practice your pit …

OPEN is a voluntary, not-for-profit, inclusive organization, focused primarily on the promotion of entrepreneurship and business leadership in the Pakistani-American community. OPEN Silicon Valley community is several thousand-strong, and includes corporate professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and banking professionals, social leaders, academics and students. OPEN Silicon Valley promotes entrepreneurship through regular mentorship and networking initiatives. Given the valley’s l …

Successful Thinkers Network is a group of like minded and committed individuals who believe people will buy or use product / service from people they know,like, and trust. The Successful Thinkers Network's mission is to build a community of Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs that exchange leads, and help each other find solutions to business challenges.   During our meetings, we have speakers from all walks of life, share their expertise, books and critical thinking, WITHOUT pushing their b …

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 …

Our community is dedicated to helping Silicon Valley Chinese Entrepreneurs to share resources and promote collaborations amongst engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, students, business owners, startup founders, executives and investors. Besides hosting technical and business events as well as social networking mixers, we provide an effective supporting network and platform by bringing together all kinds of talents of different technology backgrounds and competences. Please join us!

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community G …

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.

Associated with the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of commerce TYP is a group of Today's young professionals and tomorrows business leaders. Our goal is to connect young professionals who are looking to get involved in the community, meet and network with new people from the Silicon Valley and also individuals involved with the Chamber of Commerce. We have monthly mixers at various locations that are typically the first Wednesday of each month, quarterly educational roundtables, and various vol …

We connect U.S. start-ups with Chinese capital and market.

The Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Networking is a meetup group created for startup entrepreneurs to attend networking sessions, seminars, workshops, coaching and mentoring programs organized by incubators and accelerators. Entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, executives, startup founders and business owners, please join us if you want to get help with business basics, participate in networking activities and cofounder mixers, find marketing resources and strategic partner …

PingEast.com is a tech blog with China/US cross-border tech writers, to connect Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors and observers with China—the most huge and mysterious Internet/mobile market in the legend. We generate first hand and in-depth contents including insights, commentaries, cases studies and exclusive fireside interviews related to China startups, entrepreneurs, tech investment as well as the whole ecosystem. PingEast Meetup is a community connecting entrepreneurs and investors b …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

Compelling content is key to many entrepreneurial ventures in Silicon Valley. Whether you are a content creator, agregator, or broker, you realize that content is king. Our calendar will have an array of activities and programs to help content entrepreneurs create, package, and market content online.

Are you a developer, designer, CEO, investor, or corporation aspiring to have the next mobile phenomenon? Come to Plug and Play Tech Center's Mobile Innovators meetup! Plug and Play’s Mobile Innovators meetup is dedicated to supporting the mobile community by creating a network of experienced entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and corporate partners to share ideas and best practices. The Mobile Innovators event will be a platform to showcase new technologies and network as the premiere mobile …

Meet with students, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are interested in machine learning algorithms. We get together to both study the algorithms and discuss the real-world applications of ML. This is an exciting time for coders that deal with data, so join us!

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 …

We hold and support many activities along the lines of Green Culture, Permaculture, Free Culture, and are working on establishing a community center to pursue the transition from today's "Silicon Valley" to tomorrow's Green Tek Valley. Translating the Transition Town and Occupy movements into sustainable reality in the San Jose Metro area. Since 1992 HeartBeat Earth has been "occupying" Santa Clara County with actions on local environmental, quality of life and positive spirituality issues.

This is a group for anyone interested in Open Source software and Open Hardware for the Internet of Things. I'd like to create an opportunity for engineers and programmers, entrepreneurs, hackers, makers, and enthusiasts from all areas to get together for networking and collaboration. The Internet and the Web today is built on Open Source software. Linux, Apache, Hadoop, Mozilla, Ajax, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Memcached, MySQL; client and server and router software all developed by communities o …

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? In 10? We see ourselves running Silicon Valley. Our group members represent a variety of industries, and all of us live, work, and play here in Silicon Valley. We are an enthusiastic group of young professionals and business owners dedicated to changing the world and growing successful businesses here in the beautiful bay area. Our group meets on a weekly basis in Sunnyvale, and is by invitation only.

Silicon Valley Business Group is a referral organization made up of business owners and service professionals in Campbell and surrounding South Bay area whose partners provide products and services to homeowners, consumers, small businesses and corporations. Combining regular meetups and online resources our members work to get to know and actively refer one another. Each member in our community represents a different profession, but frequently sells to collectively common market. As a result of …

As the region’s leading voice of business since 1886, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce speaks on issues of importance to businesses across the Santa Clara Valley. Our membership ranges from large Fortune 500 firms to small, family-owned businesses. They share a common understanding: protecting and improving the Silicon Valley business climate is the key to our future economic prosperity. SJSV Chamber’s annual program of work is led by a 70-member board that consists of business le …