Passionate fans of avid ideas who wish to transform the future of advertising should join this group! If you have funded an ad on LoudSauce and want to meetup at the site of the LIVE ad, you may join! If you haven't funded an ad, but are excited about the mission...you should still attend these meetups! And even cooler, you and your friends may even be on the bottom of the ads we visit! (with your consent via LoudSauce of course!)

With one million users in over 185 countries, EFactor is the world’s largest network for entrepreneurs. We provide all the resources a small business owner would need to build their startup: investor funding, advice from experts, discounts on business tools, networking, and more. We hosts international networking events, where we bring top executives to come speak to local entrepreneurs. Join our SF and the Bay Area meetup group to stay connected, receive discounts, and be the first one to sign …

Missions: This meetup group is all about getting YOU FUNDED!!! It's also a very fun and interactive group as we have on  the last Wed. of each month we partner with Plug & Play Tech Center for Pitch Demo to Investors. If you have a project that falls in any of the categories listed in http://www.gazillionfund.com, feel free to send me your excerpt. All of our own meetup events are free, and we even provide food to most of them! And this meetup group also provides free passes or discounted price …

The Young Leadership Committee - San Francisco is a group of young professionals dedicated to raising funds and awareness for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund (JDRF). The committee, based in San Francisco, hosts various fundraising events that attract hundreds of young professionals between the ages of 21 and 40. Members of the Young Leadership Committee are asked to attend meetings where they are given the opportunity to take part in the inception, planning and ultimately the success of seve …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This was a group for people interested in issues such as sustainability and economic justice and wanting to create a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. That currency has since been created. Check it out: www.bay-bucks.com. Bay Bucks is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, structured as a non-profi …

SFBootstrap is a meetup group for founders or entrepreneurs that have build their business without outside funding. We meet in Downtown San Francisco and discuss the challenges of building a business without venture, angel, or any outside funding. Join us to meet other founders and interesting entrepreneurs, learn from others, and share tips you have discovered along the way. We are all working for the same goal, why not help each other on the way? Join the group and you'll get a monthly SFBoots …

*Join our Google Group to participate in discussions in between events!* Artup is a Bay Area community-powered incubator for forward-looking work stationed at the intersection of contemporary art and digital technology. Welcoming artists of all disciplines, Artup provides a foundation for a consistent and engaging stream of high quality work for and by curious aesthetes throughout the Bay Area. The Bay Area is technological ground zero. Bay Area residents are the first to experience the impact …

Fashion Technology (FT) Accelerator is a program in Silicon Valley exclusively dedicated to start-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology. FT Accelerator works with a selected group of companies that are already generating revenue and are typically ready to achieve sustained growth. For pre-revenue start-up there is FT Start-up Showcase, a monthly discussion / demo centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries at the intersection with Technology …

The San Francisco SPCA has been saving the lives of cats and dogs in San Francisco for 143 years. As the leader in the no-kill shelter movement, the SF SPCA finds new homes for over 4,000 animals a year and treats thousands more through community outreach programs. The SF SPCA mission is to end animal abandonment by reducing the population through aggressive spay/neuter campaigns, by providing resources and information to people to keep animals in the home, and by strengthening the human-animal …

This is a meetup of Android Game Developers. Meetup for a chance to win funding, a how to guide to meet and convince VC's to fund your app and possibly a chance to sell your game.

iOS and Android Developers for iPhone Android iPad smart TV Apple TV Google TV. iOS and Android. We discuss mobile app and game development issues and strategies. The group shares among ourselves and brings in outside experts to help educate and advance our knowledge. Cross platform HTML5 and hybrid HTML5/Native solutions are encouraged We offer the opportunity for developers to share their projects and get feedback from group members and have live demonstrations of new apps that our members ar …

We connect startup entrepreneurs with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors,  and learn how to build startups from successful entrepreneurs. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our entrepreneur community …

The Ukulele Rebellion has begun!  Join us at our bi-weekly meetings (and other events). Our primary songbook is The Daily Ukulele Leap Year Edition. The pages to be covered for each meeting are posted on the homepage. The DULYE can be found at music stores and Amazon. We also play some songs from chord/lyric sheets that can be downloaded (see below). We ask a $2 donation per meeting to cover site maintenance and other costs. Excess funds go into the Oakside Cafe tip jar. If you can print out you …

Founded by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting and run in partnership with Laurie Koski of Pink Shoe Tours, this is a great Meetup for seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike! Our Travel Book Club discussions and Travel Lectures Series events feature books and speakers to inspire you if you are currently dreaming of "hitting the road" as well as provide necessary resources for planning and realizing that trip of a lifetime. Our focus is building a community of tr …

SANFRANCISCOFASHIONINDUSTRY.ORG MEETUP GROUP, is a social networking group for anyone interested in the San Francisco fashion industry. With SFFAMA's leadership, we offer top notched industry related events that will enable you to connect, learn, promote and expand your reach in Northern California's fashion landscape. We provide very valuable and innovative tools such as, high-end runway shows, funding opportunities, pop-up shops, educational/tech workshops, business entrepreneurship classes an …

Blondes vs. Brunettes is a powder-puff flag football game hosted for a day of fun, fellowship, philanthropy and enjoyment as a way of raising money and awareness for the Alzheimer’s Association. The event is an organized flag football game in which the two participating teams are divided based on the age-old rivalry between blondes and brunettes. Funds raised at Blondes vs. Brunettes events benefit the care, support, advocacy and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association Northern Californi …

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Do you want to feel more sexiness, increase your turn ons, and expand pleasure and Orgasm? Are you ready to unleash your erotic self? This is a group for anyone who is curious in having more sexuality, intimacy and connection in their lives. It is an open playground to discuss the more intimate topics of sex and relationships. In this bi-weekly fun and light evening, with somatic therapist and intimacy coach Shara Ogin, we will be exploring components of what makes for better sex and eroticism. …

IGNITE! kicks off Tuesday March 13 at 5 PM at RocketSpace, 181 Fremont Street n San Francisco. Hummer Winblad is our sponsoring VC and Mitchell Kertzman, Managing Director, is our Keynote Speaker. If you are interested in pitching please go to www.ignitefundraisers.com . Ten companies will have demo tables and the top four startups, picked by attendees, will have an opportunity to pitch to a distinguished panel of VC and Angels. The winner gets a pitch session at Hummer Winblad!! If you’d like t …

Please note:  This meet up is sponsored by The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr Fund and membership is by referral from a current member.  When you request membership in this meet up, please include the name of the person who referred you.  Thank you! These get-togethers are an opportunity to meet in person and connect with other non-profit consultants who have a) current active work experience as consultants on organizational development and leadership for nonprofit organizations; and b) an interest …

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.

This group is interested in engaging the next generation of philanthropists who are curious to “be the change they wish to see in the world.” Join this meetup group to take part in fun, social, and innovative brainstorming sessions on what are the best strategies and messages for ensuring that more funds get to Latino communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Latinos are the second largest population group in the U.S., representing 16% of the total population. Yet less than 1.5% of foundation g …

Are you an entrepreneur, fighting the good fight? Come down for some whiskey and maybe some fisticuffs. Have a hard time explaining "the life" to your normal friends?  Have you ever had the best day of your life followed by the worst day of your life, all in the span of 4 hours? If you're not afraid of a revenue model, have or are trying to raise funds, or have hoisted a pirate war-time flag, get on in.

Do you have start-up idea, side-project, or just a hobby, and are having problems finding the time to turn it from just a concept into reality? The idea of impetus afternoons is to give you a push to do the work required to turn it your idea into something more concrete. We will get together in a coffee shop for a few hours on a weekend and actually hold our collective noses to the grind stone so we can actually make some progress on our side projects, whatever they may be. I am a software engin …

Soroptimist is an international volunteer service organization for business and professional women that works to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Soroptimist International of San Francisco is part of Soroptimist International, comprising almost 100,000 members in about 120 countries around the world. If you would like to know more about the Soroptimist, please also see our website at http://www.soroptimist.org The heart of Soroptimist's mission …

SF ART FORUM {MEDIA+TECH} San Francisco Art Forum {MEDIA+TECH} is an open resource for SF Bay Area visual artists. Connect with innovative art professionals, art enthusiasts and possible buyers. We promote local and national artists' body of work through our social media channels and industry connections. We provide educational resources and host social media+tech events with art & visuals emphasis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Services include: educational tools (arts & tech), crowd funding r …

Bootstrappers Anonymous is an entrepreneurship group for small non-funded companies of 1-3 people in San Francisco, CA who are faced with problems related to growing their startup businesses. We use a peer facilitation methodology based on Co-counselling using simple methods that can be seen as a refinement of "you tell me your problems and I'll tell you mine", along with some Scrum practices like discussing priorities and then reporting on progress. Space for our meetups is generously sponsored …

As the name suggests, this group is designed for, but not necessarily dedicated to, investors who have significant construction experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. The main purpose of this group is to bring together various construction professionals under one roof (a solid, built-to-code roof, of course...) in hopes that strong alliances / joint ventures may be formed to tackle rehab projects as each investor contributes their construction expertise and/or funding to create a beautiful, w …