R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

The MF|Collective is a multifamily investor community where investors can find opportunities to learn, share, grow, and profit. All are welcome! Whether you are just interested, just getting started, or a seasoned multifamily (apartment) investor, the MF|Collective is the investment club for you. Join the MF|Collective to network with other go-getters, learn to conduct market research, analyze investments, conduct due diligence, find other pieces of your deal, build, improve, and/or manage you …

Soul Power focuses on the soul – your soul, the soul of your organs, your house, your relationships, your business, your finances, etc. “Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow.“ - Master Sha In this MeetUp, we share Soul Power techniques and practices introduced by Master Zhi Gang Sha to help you connect with your soul and develop your soul abilities. Soul Power techniques are highly effective, yet incredible simple. Many are sacred and secret practices known only to …

There is life to banking and asset management outside of London and New York! Yes, here in San Francisco are we few and proud quants, traders, spreadsheet hackers and banking software developers looking to meet for an infrequent coffee or casual lecture.

#1 Bay Area Network! A community for entrepreneurs, small business owners and investors. Have a great idea? Have capital and can't find a sound business? This #1 Community can help. We provide financing help, business plan development, consulting, debt financing, alternative financing, and opportunities to investors. Join San Francisco Entrepreneur Investor Network Meetup today! All Entrepreneurs & Investors are welcome. We will have a wide range of qualified entrepreneurs so you can share ideas …

Startup Saturdays is all about empowering the global community through offering knowledge to enhance leadership, entrepreneurship and technical skills. With the knowledge and skillset taught though Startup Saturdays individuals are able to explore new business and career opportunities that lead to a better quality of life and higher earnings. Explore new pathways for your life by attending one of our classes. We are here to assist individuals with personal growth and help eliminate unsightly hu …

We invite you to meet vibrant, ambitious and fun people at events in Oakland or the San Francisco East Bay Area ranging from casual get together's to professional business networking events. We provide a place to meet new people and make connections while helping each other significantly grow our businesses through quality LEADS. The purpose of Oakland LEADS is to assist you in getting good referrals that will expand your business success. Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's busines …

This group is for San Francisco locals who have debt (student loans, credit cards, etc.) who are looking to pay it off through improving major aspects of their lives such as career and relationships. Each quarter we're going to put together a panel of experts to answer your questions and help you optimize your life and get out of debt.

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is one of the largest mobile industry user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1999, MoMo has been bringing together mobile enthusiasts for education and networking events. With the fantastic growth of the industry, a significant portion of more than 6,500 MoMo SV members have backgrounds in non-technical fields, such as business, marketing, finance and legal. But we want to make sure the actual mobile builders – yes the coders - can come together to collabor …

Mt. Diablo Business Women is a group of professional business women working in many industries including: banking, finance, interior design,technology, medicine, mental health, fashion, coaching, public relations real estate, skin and body care, website design to name a few. Members consist of both self-employed and corporate businesswomen. We have no limitation to industry or size of the business. We meet the second Thursday of every month at the Lafayette Park Hotel for networking, dinner and …

East Bay Technology Executives (EBTE) has been formed to take advantage of and leverage our common East Bay location and unique cultural attributes. To create a foundation of shared experience, membership is open to people living in who live in the Bay Area's 510- and 925- area codes...and are current or former: officer-level (VP or more senior) executives and entrepreneurs/founders from technology companies of all types (hardware/software, communications, digital media, Internet, cleantech, et …

Join us on our journey to our BEST SELF. NOT just a meetup, this is a MOVEMENT. A movement towards a new generation of "whole black women who are EMPOWERED in every area of their lives. Whole women make SMART decisions and know their value. We refer to ourselves as Diamonds and we are priceless! We bring out the BEST in each other! We plan events that cater to EVERY aspect of your life. We workout together, travel together, save and invest together, pray together, solve problems together. We …

I would like to organize a build of a 120sq ft tiny home in the East Bay. No building experience but I have a van and a lot of enthusiasm to lead this project. Also no where to build... As far as knowledge, been reading up quite a bit and will be taking a Tumbleweed Tiny House weekend course in early October and would like to organize a group build there as well with fellow class members. As I do not have much experience our meetups needs to be mostly individuals that can contribute directly wit …

Building a new energy future requires brilliant minds in every discipline -- engineering, biology, economics, policy, finance, and marketing to name just a few. Come share a beer and a snack with Berkeley's best entrepreneurs, researchers and creative thinkers working on addressing the central issue of this century.

AFWA is "Education, Inspiration, Networking and Fun" and is a member-driven organization. We increase your technical knowledge, skills and abilities, help in keeping members abreast in their field of expertise and provide career management, transition guidance and assistance. Our benefits include: • Business contacts locally and across the country • Personal and professional support • Scholarships for new and returning students and displaced homemakers • Job referral network • Leadership opportu …

Top 3 Reasons to join ASWA East Bay: Build a REAL Network! Facebook and Linkedin are great ways of keeping track of the contacts you already know. However, they are not a great way to build a larger circle of powerful women who can help you in your career and life. ASWA is a growing network of East Bay Accounting and Finance Women who want to help each other and learn from each other. Learn something New! Every single meeting has an informational topic with a speaker. Even when the topic has be …

Let's use open source technology to fix the financial industry! Large financial institutions caused the Great Recession, but regulators have not reformed them. Before the next crisis hits, let's create a suite of open source financial models and feed them with big data. We can use these technologies to figure out which assets are risky and which aren't. Rather than wait for top down financial reform from Washington DC, we can do it from the group up.

Have you ever noticed that you have a different personality when you travel? Are you considering a gap year or sabbatical? Are you dreaming of going on a pilgrimage or a meditation retreat in Bali? Join us for our unconventional travel talk series, where we'll explore expat life, the international languages of love, spiritual travel, travel aliases, what a sabbatical can do for you, and more. The format of each event will vary—we'll host spirited talks, interviews, debates, lectures and round t …

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

We are demystifying the process of what's called a "liquidity event" in finance language: from getting "acqui-hired", over selling your company to a Fortune 500, to an initial public offering. We will cover the steps that it takes to grow from a seed stage start-up to a different level and a public company - and what to do when that phone call from Facebook comes.

This meetup is all about learning how to use technology tools to run our businesses better. We'll run a series of meetups around important topics, such as SEO (to get business), Project Management, Finances, Information Organization, and more. Sessions will be a mix of hands-on activities, educational presentations, and discussion groups. The first 6 months in 2013 are going to be focused on Search Engine Optimization, and are sponsored by Jenner Bishop.

This is group for anyone who is interested in learning how classroom finance topics are used professionally in the investment management industry. Come learn real tricks of the trade so you can make better investment decisions. The material covered should be relevant whether you are just starting out or are a veteran in the field.

Come be part of the movement of people democratizing clean energy. Hosted by Mosaic, these meetups will range from talks with leaders in the clean energy and investing space to local pub crawls with people interested in doing good by doing well. Watch out for our series of events, event recaps, and news on Mosaic at: @solarmosaic https://www.facebook.com/joinmosaic Mosaic is an online marketplace that connects investors to high-quality solar projects. Mosaic’s mission is to open up clean energy …