This Meet Up Community is for finding pre-seed funding for iPhone, and Android app development. This group is being set up for for connecting professionals with experience in finance, product development, sales, marketing, and business development to fund and/or create new businesses around the iPhone and Android platforms. Come network, learn, and help new ventures in SF launch. We get together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing businesses on these new s …

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 …

WE WILL BE SCHEDULING MEETUPS VERY SOON. PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP TO GET UPDATES! THANK YOU. Purpose : Training in Finances. Educational and Networking Events for Like Minded People who Have Wealth and Are Accumulating Wealth and Intend to Keep Their Wealth and Finances in good shape. We started this financial education training meetup to give a venue for the dissemination of information that will help one make money and keep it legally and with full integrity. Who should join: People who have and …

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 …

All of Pathways' meditation classes are designed to empower you on your spiritual path. Classes cover a range of topics. The teaching method allows the student to integrate mind, body, spirit, and emotion simultaneously. Most people are integrated in two out of the four areas. This system will allow the student to move ahead in balance. Workshops are a great way to introduce your self to my work. I am currently teaching in Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and San Mateo! Please join me for this fun an …

We're a group of finance and accounting professionals who want to learn and share advanced Excel spreadsheet techniques used specifically for finance and accounting. Sponsored by the San Francisco chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (SFIMA) - the local chapter of an international professional organization that awards the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. For more information, please visit SFIMA at www.sfima.org.

SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers. I …

West Valley College is offering programs and events around promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship.  Programs include classes designed to help first time entrepreneurs start new businesses, advanced courses to help existing businesses grow and succeed, and networking events to help small business owners develop connections and relationships to foster success. The courses are taught by seasoned entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley startup veterans, and specialists in a variety of areas including …

What’s your dream? Freedom of time? Unlimited resources to travel the world? Whatever it may be, CASHFLOW 101 teaches you how to get out of the Rat Race and onto the Fast Track, how to make your money work for you - not the other way around. CASHFLOW 101 is an educational board game that simulates real life financial strategies and situations. As a simulation, you learn valuable lessons and gain priceless insights into personal finance and investing without having to put your actual money at ris …

Are you an investor looking for private money lending or partners for a real estate project? Are you an Agent that has great deals to bring to the table? If so, we want you at our San Francisco Bay Area Private Money and Deal Structuring for Investors Meet-up. From newbie’s to experienced investors, we can learn from each other. Today’s real estate market has created some enormous opportunities and this group will empower all who want to take advantage of these times. We have a direct private mo …

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 …

We started as a group of women gathering to take charge and “lift the fog” on our personal finances. We have now developed into a community of women who are shifting our relationship with money from a consumption-driven paradigm to one of giving, caring and ‘enough’ to co-create an economic future for humanity that sustains life on earth.  We do this by exploring our stories and beliefs around money, by continuing to educate and develop ourselves and by building community.  If you are interested …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on personal finance or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups. To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services. Although we welcome everyone there is not a …

Join us to discuss books and ideas regarding achieving financial independence through a conscious relationship with money. Sample books are Your Money or Your Life, Live More Work Less, and Early Retirement Extreme. Spend less and live more!

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 …

100 Committed Businesswomen Women Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Business Managers, Consultants... Are you looking for a way to grow your business and a group of likeminded women in business to make meaningful connections with? Then get to know your WON 100 sisters and friends and let us grow your business for you! WON 100 – Peninsula (Sister organization of Women Owned Networking SFBA) is for the businesswoman who is very serious about the growth of her business and who has a heart to e …

We're a group that uses hacking, stats, and machine learning to dig up alpha in the financial markets. Programmers, traders, and everyone else who enjoys crunching numbers is welcome to contribute and work on ideas.

This group is for Silicon Valley professionals in the health, legal, education, or technology fields. It provides education on important financial topics such as college funding strategies, self-directed IRAs, retirement planning, tax strategies, trusts, portfolio optimization, and alternative investing approaches available to qualified investors. Presenters will be experts in their respective fields. All information will be educational - no sales pitches will be permitted.

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 …

Capital Engineering is a group about how we can use technology to bring order to the chaos of finance. It's a group for mobile, web and back-end developers and designers to learn and share their knowledge of building large, multi-client cloud-based systems. Things like architecting single page apps, advanced charting for mobile and Amazon's simple notification service are par for the course, which will typically be a two part talk complemented by food and drink. At Personal Capital we have devel …

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.

ASL’s Emerging Business Group supports you through the start-up and growth stages by helping you: - Tackle and move past business problems with proven ideas and resources from ASL personnel and our large professional network. - Gain traction in the market by planning for and securing the financing necessary to fund key initiatives and projects. - Get the most out of your capital by identifying and eliminating operational inefficiencies. - Connect to a peer network of other founders, owners, and …

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

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; …