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!)

Missions:   MAKE TONS OF MONEY IN REAL ESTATE IN THIS MARKET! LEARN HOW TO USE OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY TO LEVERAGE YOUR INVESTMENTS. A recession is a gateway to enormous real estate riches. Don't let uncertainty or lack of money stop you from taking advantage of today's real estate melt-down bargains. And most importantly... don't try to guess when the market will hit rock bottom. If you do that, you'll wait too long and then you're behind. Great market There is unprecedented money making opport …

This group is for founders of start-ups that are looking to raise initial angel, seed or Tier 1 venture funding. This group also welcome Investors and Fundraising consultants. This group is managed by the Startups & Societal Ventures Network (SSVN), headquartered in central Central Silicon Valley (USA) Welcome to the SSV Network! The "Startups & Societal Ventures" Network http://www.ssvnetwork.com Discuss: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=48286 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSVNetwo …

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 …

Crowdsourcing is a powerful and rapidly growing way to improve your business and get things done cheaply that otherwise might costs thousands of dollars. This group will be for those who want to learn how to use this resource for their startup or existing small business. Whether it's programming you need done (or any other contracted work), funding for a project or expansion, customer acquisition or involvement, or really just about anything, there is the potential to crowd-source it. We'll be a …

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 …

Africa Wellness Initiative is a 501(3)c Non-Profit Charity, a foundation for women infected with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children in Southern Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a grassroots social network that was created to assist Zimbabwean mothers and orphans impacted by HIV/AIDS. The group has been started to continuously introduce the topic, raise funds to help key initiatives and update the progress on those projects. AWI is currently working on projects to: 1. Raise funds to ship medic …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This is a group for people interested in creating a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. If issues such as sustainability, social justice, and economic stability are important to you, come join this project to co-create a complementary monetary system. This is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, st …

        FASHION+TECHSF (formerly FashionMashup) is the longest running monthly workshop and event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology entrepreneurs, designers, developers, bloggers, business professionals, students, investors and numerous enthusiastic companies, schools, groups and individuals who share our vision of a world-class fashion and technology industry that is innovative, disr …

… Though I would like to help out poor children in third world countries by raising funds for their food and education, but you are ofcourse free to choose your fund destination. You can claim tax exemption againt donation amount. So if you wanna get fitter and earn good karma, join now!

… Chapters have created their own International Funds that donate millions of dollars to health research groups, hunger projects, and other worthwhile causes. Members and their families can receive assistance through our International Loan, Scholarship and Disaster Funds. What Makes Us Unique? Unlike a college sorority, our organization has members of all ages and educational backgrounds. Our sisterhood constantly redefines itself through the diversity and vitality of its members who share their …

The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The Cleantech Open has established itself as the leader in developing clean technology startup entrepreneurs addressing these challenges. Since its inception in 2006, 191 promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Open’s one-of-a-kind hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with impressive results: * …

We rank people every day. We rank their influence; we rank them for jobs; for credit; for fun. We rank them for dating, knowledge, reputation, and for funding or joining a startup. Ranking is hard and subjective. But the results are there for all too see -- who drives action? Who gets the job? Who gets funded? We need better science and engineering for people ranking, and we will make it here.

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.

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 …

… Jean Hammond, an angel investor for the past 12 years and cofounder of Golden Seeds, a network that funds female-led companies, wishes a group like the SheEOs was around when she founded her first company, Quarry Technology, in 2000. “Nothing is as lonely as being a CEO,’’ said Hammond, of Watertown, who as an investor is not a member. “The idea that I could have had experience to share and talk with other women going through the same thing . . . it almost makes me drool to think about it.’’