We are looking for business professionals who want to grow their businesses. As entrepreneurs living and working in the Berkeley, California area, we invite you to consider the mutually profitable prospect of becoming a part of our growing network for a mutually profitable business association. BNI is the largest business networking organization in the world, and it has a unique twist. We accept only one person per professional specialty in each chapter. If you are accepted into membership, yo …

Have an idea for an app, product, service you want to turn into a start-up? Want to know how? Learn how to take an idea from whiteboard to marketplace. And then create marketing tools like identity, branding, onesheets, sales kits, websites, advertising and social marketing campaigns to launch your new venture to VC investors or target market/s at Cal Berkeley Extension: http://extension.berkeley.edu/catalog/course1367.html

Welcome to one of the 50 largest entrepreneur groups in the country! You do NOT need to live in the San Francisco Bay Area to join our club. We record our meetings and publish them on YouTube. Watch videos at http://www.youtube.com/tacticalexecution The Twitter hashtag for this group is #academy. The Academy has 3 main goals: (1) disseminate practical business development guidance for entrepreneurs & small business owners, (2) allow members to network and benefit from each other's expert …

Want to experience more productive networking that leads to great connections and unexpected opportunities? Join this seriously fun group where you can learn new skills and get to practice them. It's serious in it's purposefulness, and fun in that it includes improvisation and a sense of humor to make networking a pleasure instead of a chore.

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 …

Berkeley Business Mixers is an East Bay Meet-up Group where business professionals and friends can come together to discuss, share insights, and help one another build their businesses in an open and welcoming environment. Mixers are held every 6-8 weeks at various venues around North Oakland, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito. So far we have meet at Local 123 on San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley, but are always looking for new places to "Get-together". Hope you will join us at our next event!

Imagine lively people-scaled  communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for  retirement, for growing food or simply  living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has  ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on pu …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …

We are working on a new program. We hope to re-launch the group meetings at the beginning of 2011. Let us know if you have any suggestions for a space we can use for our meetings. Knowledge Is Power! We aspire to establish a platform for investors to gain knowledge, build confidence, and encourage networking among investors. We seek to create a inspiring supportive environment for all levels of investors to interact, to learn, to share, and create wealth. Topics that are covered in the meeting …

Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup In order to survive as an entrepreneur, it's crucial to understand how to make the right connections, get the tools and inspirational education in order to grow your business. Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup brings you fresh speakers, monthly training and networking to jump-start your projects and dreams. • Have great business ideas; however you don’t know where to start? • Clueless about Internet Marketing 101? • Have a website that's not working for you? • Need to …

The goal of Oakland Authors is to create a virtual and physical place for East Bay writers to gather, exchange ideas, and help each other in any way needed. The publishing industry as a whole is struggling. It’s up to us to decide if it dies or reinvents itself. The modern author doesn’t have the luxury of being able to retreat to write, letting others do the work of editing, producing and distributing books, coding e-books, or marketing him or herself. We at Oakland Authors hope that by banding …

Speaking Fearlessly Do you have an important message or mission or product? What's holding you back from speaking up right now? Speaking Fearlessly is designed to: 1) Build a community to support each other in sharing great speaking tips 2) Practice in front of a receptive audience and receive solid, positive feedback 3) Provide you with a free video recording of your speech to review later and practice in private Speaking Fearlessly is perfect for: * Sales/marketing people * Speakers * Coache …

This group is designed for Connected Investors in and around the Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, Emeryville, and Castro Valley area. Enjoy a real estate investor networking group focused on connecting you with the local people & resources you need to take your life to the next level. This Meetup group is focused around doing deals. No educational products are being sold, but we may give you a few for free. Looking for an investment property to purchase? Join our gr …

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You’re here because – * You’re not only trying to make money – you feel that you’re here to change people’s lives, be in community, and even help better the world. * When you go to a standard networking event, it seems superficial and that most people don’t share your values. * You want to make deep and lasting connections. * You want to be part of a movement that does business in a way that consciously honors your personal or spiritual growth, and allows it to be an acceptable part of your expr …

Hi there, If you're looking to start an apparel manufacturing business, you've come to the right place.  The purpose of this group is to direct people to the resources they need in order to gain knowledge about creating a successful apparel or sewn products venture.  There will be invitations to classes and lectures about how to write a business plan, how to approach resources you need in order to get your product developed and finally mass-produced in S.F. or Oakland.  There will also be real w …

The Bay Area Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Roundtable 2.0 Diversity is intended to focus and reframe how we integrate inclusiveness into our organizations. Diversity and Inclusion goes far beyond hiring and retention. It is the way we think about business strategy, our understanding of new consumer markets, our relationships with our community, and our ability to be the employer of choice to attract the best talent.

Please join our monthly meeting using the Systemic Constellation Method. We are interested in building a group of people working on growing their businesses using this methodology. Quantum physics makes it clear that we exist in a field of possibility beyond linear time and local space. Through this field, the Systemic Constellation Method makes visible opportunities for growing our businesses and careers that we may not have previously considered. Through these workshops you will be able to : - …

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

Green business network. Green Business' helping each other market and sell their products and services. Come join with like minded business' to create a community that helps spread the message.

The East Bay Series (EBS) takes place monthly (except for August and December) on a Wednesday evening at locations convenient to those who live and work in the East Bay, Tri-Valley and beyond in the Capital Corridor and Central Valley. The EBS theme is “real-life stories of entrepreneurial success,” reflecting how we use real-life experiences to give you practical recommendations with great take-away value. The format is a moderated panel discussion, typically with between three and five members …

We want to bring together SEM gurus to share tips and tricks, big data stories and expertise as well as create networking opportunities within the search marketing space.

http://www.goodactionnetwork.org/ Effecting change through boycotts, consumerism,  networking and using apps to promote socially conscious corporations and politicians.

We are seeking business owners and professionals in specific business categories, not already represented in our group, to whom we will refer customers as we now do for fellow group members. Word of mouth is the most cost effective form of advertising. Recognizing that, we came together five years ago as a dedicated group of business owners and professionals, cooperating without competition within the group, working together to accelerate the growth of our businesses. We operate on the principle …

I am looking for East Bay singles over 50 who would like to get together to expand their social network, and are interested in engaging in various types of activities such as dining, concerts (especially jazz, classical, folk, soul, reggae, rhythm and blues), dance performances, exploring San Francisco, political forums with intelligent and articulate leftist-oriented thinkers, flea markets, beading, sightseeing and day trips in and around the SF area. The group is open to all singles, especial …

Bay Area Real Estate Moguls was created to give local Real Estate investors a forum to meet with others interested in SFR and Multifamily Investing. Our community is geared toward sharing innovative techniques to acquire real estate properties. We create an environment to network with professionals in Real Estate with an emphasis on Multi-Units, SFR and creating . Our primary goal is to discuss opportunities here in the Bay. We will meet to discuss current trends in the market place and opportun …

Freelance web work is lonely and isolating. We want to meet others that we can socialize with, learn from and maybe work with. All web disciplines welcome - design, development, IA, project management, whatever.

Monthly meetings, low cost workshops, networking, critique groups, a great opportunity to hear from industry professionals, marketing support - Come meet your new friends!