Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. 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 ico …

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or if you are a developer/comput …

Business measurement, modeling and metrics have become critical to businesses of all sizes and across all industries. In today's competitive environment, executives need to be at the top of their game when it comes to understanding their business performance. There is data everywhere about the market, competitors, customers and businesses, but getting to the core of the information, and turning that data into an advantage is challenging. This group brings together executives from multiple indust …

The Startup Alliance is a peer group for active startup founders and CxOs committed to helping each other maximize their business success. We share information and ideas in face to face events and online. We care about a variety of topics including: Founding teams Business structure and capital formation Strategy, business and financial models Recruiting, benefits and retention Sales, marketing, business development Intellectual property and licensing Aligning business goals with founder goals …

The Mobile Guild fosters information exchange, Professional development, and networking amongst its members. Discussions & trends on Mobile Apps (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone 7), New opportunities, Monetization and business models created by the convergence of cameras & Sensors in smartphones and more.. Mobile Guild is a platform - a table to talk. What is being discussed here? - Tips and tricks for successful Monetization of Mobile Apps - New Business models and opportunities …

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 …

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 …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

About SVCWireless Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit, non-bias independent professional organization to bridge the technology industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 6000 members and 50 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners. US Mobile Apps and Interne …

Rainmakers started as a series of miniconferences focusing on entrepreneurial education for startup founders and professionals to share their experiences and grew into the perfect networking group for San Francisco Bay professionals who want to connect with other professionals. Make new business and personal connections, build your network, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. We make our networking events easy by having greeters at the door to not only welcome you - they intro …

A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data  including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …

Join award winning UX designer Phil Dupré and team for a small, informal discussion at Maprehend about managing and collaborating on projects visually. Often times managing projects is too complex to depend on just words for communicating. We learn visually very easily so why can't we have a way to visually communicate easily? Especially when it comes to some of the most difficult things to manage? Like projects involving several complex facets with several complex people. Even if you’re sitting …

This group is for education professionals seeking information about business practices, networking, and ongoing educational enrichment opportunities.  We meet approximately 5 times per year with many opportunities to network more informally in between meetings.

Join the world class Startup Leadership Program, a training program for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who aspire to be exceptional startup CEOs. Startup Leadership Program’s fellows have founded over 300 successful startups in the 6 years since the program’s inception. The Silicon Valley Chapter was launched in 2009 and 60+ fellows have graduated till now. This Meetup is for SLP informational and recruitment events. The 2nd event for the summer is on Wednesday, July 11th!

This group is setup for IT Start-up Entrepreneurs, Network Engineers, CIO's, IT Project Managers, Business Systems Analysts,  System Administrators, Business Owners, CEO's and CFO's of the Silicon Valley. It is this groups goal to help all parties involved truly understand not only the technology requirements for scalable and rapid deployment, but the cost and logistics behind the "beast" we all know as IT design.

We're a community for anyone interested in developing and deploying web applications with HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OOP, MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Cloud Server, and Agile. We meet once or twice a month for discussion, collaboration, and networking with other like-minded people.  We have a terrific group of people from varying technical backgrounds.  All are welcome! For more information about us, and what we do, visit us at CodingDojo.co

VSX 2012 was formed to provide a central point for learning and exchange of information with access to key virtualization platforms and best of breed ecosystem vendors. The conference mission is to create strong virtualization strategies for companies and improve virtualization platforms. Whether the audience is a CIO, Director of IT, or an engineer, there will be sessions of interest among the multiple technology and business tracks offered. VSX will offer clients access to key platform vendors …

Welcome, UI Platform Developers, Architects and curious designers. This group is for anyone who is interested in exploring next generation UI Platform solutions. So all those with a passion for developing, brain storming and creating solutions for tomorrow join us and share ideas.

Increase Your Revenue or turbo-charge your resume! Learn to speak Chinese! "If the 19th century belonged to Britain, and the 20th century to the United States, then the 21st century will surely belong to China. My advice: Make sure your kids learn Chinese." - Jim Rogers, Worth Magazine Weekly Chinese Language Classes Where: 1731 Technology Drive, #400, San Jose When: Every Wednesday Night, 6:30 – 7:30 PM RSVP: Suifei Huang: jrsuifei@hotmail.com Do you want to learn to speak Mandarin both sociall …

Fashion+TechSV joins Fashion+TechSF & Fashion+TechNY as the Silicon Valley Chapter. FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHS …

This group is a meetup for people interested in the intersection between information security and the law. The group supports the work of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law. The ISC is a diverse group of lawyers, security experts, technologists, auditors and other professionals, whose focus includes the examination and analysis of legal, business, and technical aspects of securing the confidentiality, integrity and availability …

A group dedicated to IT Managers at all size companies -- though initial focus is probably on the challenges that growing organizations face when more rigorous IT policies and procedures are needed. There are many Meetup groups dedicated to engineers or technical operations staff behind today's new companies -- but not as much for the IT staff who face challenges when putting security policies into practice. Join us to discuss trends in topics such as procurement, mobile device management, use …