SF-CAPS:  Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more then their peers and create unexpected results. Whether you're an expert or new to the world of consulting, coaching, authoring, and or sp …

Are you curious about getting your business to not only grow but thrive? This group is for women who own or run a business, whether it be a small business or solo business. Coaches, consultants, speakers, holistic practitioners and traditional, are welcome! All entrepreneurs, freelancers, small business owners and professionals are welcome! This group is built so you can: 1. Surround yourself, meet, and network with other women in business, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Grow your re …

We will participate in regular business and social networking events in collaboration with other meetup groups.  These events are great opportunities to meet and connect with entrepreneurs, financiers, technologists, tech executives, Internet consultants, and other movers and shakers in Silicon Valley. This meetup is geared towards small business owners, self-employed professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to maximize ROI for their advertising dollars. This is where small business ow …

Coming together to support our businesses and self-care, thereby enriching our ability to be of service to our constituents. Networking for collective wisdom and knowledge around business strategy, customer development, marketing, internet and social media, collaboration across disciplines, jobs listings and more. A focus on holistic, preventative, integrative, lifestyle offerings: Nutrition, Life Coaches, Yoga, Movement, Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Ayurveda, Expres …

Are You Ready To Take Your Business To The Next Level? To take your business to the next level and to be your very best, you will have to change your habits, overcome your fears and develop great discipline. Whether you want to grow your business, take control of your business and your life, increase sales, or create sustainable growth, you've found the right Business Owner's Meet-Up Group! Join us in different California locations each and every month where you meet with other like-minded busin …

Asian American Business Connection is a group exclusively for Asian professionals. Asians have a particular way of doing business so this group's mission is to grow, learn and educate from each other while enhancing our business skills through networking, events, guest speakers, and collaborating with other organizations. AABC  believe, "In order for us to get what we want we need to help others get what they want". That said, each member is an advocate for each others profession. We also exchan …

...Looking for the edge to optimal business success? Join us as we explore, learn and support each other in our business adventures and ventures. More importantly, we establish personal relationships to expand our networks and our businesses to position ourselves for huges success in 2010 and beyond!! 2010 Theme: Business Success Through Coaching. Hear the insights, tips and strategies from the best Biz Coaches in the Bay Area. Each meeting will feature an invited guest Biz Coach who is genui …

We believe in doing business networking on the basis of sound committed partnership. When we obtain a business networking lead or business referral, we treat it with honor and we return the priviledge with honor - Where the old fashioned business traits of integrity, loyalty, honoring promises, differences and similarities are upheld. This is a business group that upholds doing education and doing business smart and supporting others to be successful. NO CHARGE TO JOIN Some events will have …

This meetup group is for the hard core... It’s for business owners and entrepreneurs who are already high achievers, heavy hitters, and Go-Getters, but like most successful people; are itching to get to their next level. It’s for individuals with a burning desire to better themselves, for individuals on a quest to Be, Do, and Have more out of their businesses and their lives. This meetup is for the doers. If this sounds like you, you are at the right place. We cover specific areas of small busi …

"Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Everyone" Unleash your hidden power. We all have it as a presenter. Learn to bring yours out. Build and project your confidence in front of an audience, your boss or your customers you know confidence is key to your success. Increase your presence and humor in front of an audience. Learn simple techniques to improve your body language and make others feel at ease around you. Practice your skills in a supportive and safe environment. The secret to lear …

We welcome those who are either already executive coaches or have an interest in becoming one, to join us in conversation, community and learning. Group organizer and CEO of Envision Global Leadership, Jeff Evans.Ph.D. will lead the groups in stimulating conversation to support development of executive coaching skills, discuss emerging trends and create connections for our expanding network. (Envision Global Leadership (EGL) is a premier firm focused on developing leaders with skills to lead i …

if you are a self-aware entrepreneur or want to be one - one who strives to make a real difference in the world. We are changing names and changing our mission - formerly The Bay Area Entrepreneurs Network, we now focus on those who desire to be conscious about the role they play in changing lives. This is the opportunity to network with like-minded self-aware peers, learn how to grow your business while growing yourself and changing the world. My name is Jonathan Bender, and it's my pleasure to …

TEC - The Entrepreneurs Club (formely CoolTechClub) is a strong international multi-ethnic network of high-tech entrepreneurs, executives and other professionals. Our members speak English, Russian, Hebrew and many other European languages. We are headquartered in the Silicon Valley and hold regular meetings in Palo Alto, New York and Moscow. Our goals are: * To provide a networking platform for high-tech entrepreneurs coming to Silicon Valley and other high-tech centers from different countr …

The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

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 …

Business Executives for Measurable Management is a group formed to welcome Robin Byrne, founder of Measurable Management, to the Bay Area. Mr. Byrne management initiative was recently nominated by the United Nations (UN) to receive their prestigious Positive Peace Award. To celebrate this nomination, Mr. Byrne is touring the country and sharing his management methodology with Corporate America. He plans to stop in San Jose in May 2011 to deliver a free training. ABOUT MEASURABLE MANAGEMENT I …

Coaches inspire our clients to be the best they can be. One of the activities that this group does is to meet to talk about best practices, share challenges, coach each other, discuss new findings, experiment with new tools, seek support. In general we are there for each to continue our learnings, our skills and our talents. We are a caring, sharing , proactive group of co-active coaches. Our skills and experience are as diverse as we are. You should join us if you are a co-active coach who foll …

BNI offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Being a member of BNI is like having sales people working for you every day who market your product or service.  BNI's sole purpose is to provide a structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals.  If referrals are an important part of your business, then BNI is the organization for you.

The objective of the VBE (Virtual Business Ecosystem) group is to help every small business, start-ups, and non-profit organization to harness the power of the latest Cloud Computing, Virtual Events, and Social Media for Explosive Growth & Unfair Advantage! Top 5 Reasons to Join this group: Discover the Secret behind Apple, Amazon, & Google for Sustainable Growth & Unfair Advantage. Brainstorm for the next disruptive business ideas & model for the next Google & Facebook. Meet your co-founder a …

Do you work too hard in your Business and want to chillax with other Business Owners, Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Founders who are looking to have Fun. This group is for men and women who own or run a business, whether it be a small business or solo business or a seasoned professional in a large firm. The main criteria in addition of being Entrepreneurial is that you bring Positive attitude and smiles (always!) so as to create an atmosphere of fun and jam ...which is what we are all about. …

We understand that the one of the best ways to improve our own business is to utilize the network of people that other members have built. If one person can reach 100 people, then a group of 20 people can reach 2000 and that is very powerful. There have been many fruitful relationships built in our group that will last the rest of our professional lives, and we are looking for more people that share our enthusiasm. This and other Business related Meetups are dedicated to working with small, eme …

Classy, BlackGirl the Professional Network's mission is to encourage women to subscribe to a more upscale set of social and professional standards through networking, socializing and lifestyle experiences in a sisterly and fun environment! We Host amazing mixers, social outings, educational seminars and professional coaching solutions for Black Women in Business!

We will meet at least once a month (the plan is to have weekly meetings) to discuss issues facing small business and entrepreneurs today, share our own experiences in facing those issues and come up with ideas on how to help each other and those we know. As the group has been expanding and we have learned to trust each other, business referrals have already started!

We're teaching designers how to think like entrepreneurs. Whether you work for a corporation, start-up or as a freelance designer, join our group and learn how to stay passionate about your work, communicate with all types of clients effectively, market yourself and more! Learning and applying good business skills are imperative, especially in a fast-moving industry. There is a lot of buzz about design founders. Why not bring the founders, developers and the designers together so the designers …

The Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Networking is a meetup group created for startup entrepreneurs to attend networking sessions, seminars, workshops, coaching and mentoring programs organized by incubators and accelerators. Entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, executives, startup founders and business owners, please join us if you want to get help with business basics, participate in networking activities and cofounder mixers, find marketing resources and strategic partner …

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 …

Are you in the workforce and looking to go back to graduate school for your MBA? Are you a business school graduate in need of some refresher courses? Are you a business owner looking to better manage your business? If you answered yes to any of these, join us for free MBA lessons, each geared toward a specific topic and taught by students in the accelerated MBA program at the Hult Business School.

This group is specifically for Information Marketers, Authors, Speakers, coaches, anyone who has a message that they share with the world through an Information product. If you have or plan on creating, marketing, selling an eBook, book, CD, DVD, online course, seminar, workshops, or a coaching / consulting program this group is for you. As solopreneurs we sometimes need an accountability partner, someone to keep us moving forward, someone to run an idea by. This is what the Expert’s Mastermind …