Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A PHP engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with his vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day...  We're building this community.  

  This networking group helps you get your new business off the ground fast and provides the support and networking you need to ensure it thrives in the months and years to come.   We address a wide range of business requirements including: Internet Marketing, Sales, Fulfillment Options for Startups & Small Business, Preparing Your Business to Receive Finance & Investment, Help with Busienss Plans, and Management Support for Startups & Small Businesses. For more information about the group, a …

Are you a Startup? Freelancer? Entrepreneur? Coder? Tired of working alone through the night? We've got you covered. Twice a month, from 7pm - 12am, come to Coloft and work the night away in an inspiring, and creative atmosphere, around like-minded, ambitious people. Who knows what can come out of this... the next billion-dollar idea perhaps?  A $15 cover charge applies. Coloft members get priority registration and pay no cover. Added Bonus: work space, wifi, super awesome people.  p.s. Foll …

[UPDATE] Active Startup will be launching a new kind of meetup designed for supporting and training entrepreneurs. Look for first event in August, 2012. [UPDATE] Active Startup is under new leadership and will be rolling out an all new series of meetups for this community. If you want to participate in the new administration please contact the organizer. See you soon!   Active-Startup is a Los Angeles based community for aspiring entrepreneurs. The goal is to bring together like-minded individua …

This meetup has been organized by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners. Events are intended for company founders or founders-to-be who are looking for intensive, unbiased, arms-length educational sessions pertaining to how to raise capital for a startup, as well as a desire to network with like-minded people. Classes are taught by Jon, a veteran local vc who's backed some of the area's top companies, including Rent.com, Shopzilla and Sandpiper Networks. Ocean Road Partners supports the startup and te …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. 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 iconic companies all started with jus …

Are you involved in a startup or want to be? Commonred's Startup Grind was started to help entrepreneurs meet new people face-to-face, and continue to build a lasting relationship with them online after the event. It's a monthly event held in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and New York City and features a range of speakers from founders, to journalists, to investors. More importantly it has the coolest community you've ever seen. Come to our event or go to Commonred.com to meet amazing professiona …

… For a room of one hundred people we generally see teams between 5-10 people and a total of between 10-15 teams working away on 10-15 new startups.  At after Friday evening people come in early on Saturday and work work work for the rest of the weekend until giving a demo of the newly created startup on Sunday evening. We’ve had teams that were generating revenue on Saturday evening in the past! It’s a great learning experience, great networking, and a lot of fun to roll up your sleeves a …

These Live Optimization Workshops are for small businesses. We focus all of our experimentation on optimizing online marketing communications- improving email marketing, improving subscription, lead generation, and ecommerce offers while providing: * Access to a team of industry experts who have collaboratively conducted thousands of online tests and understand internet marketing * Knowledge and understanding through a thorough analysis of the focus area * Strategically planned …

Learn the basic steps on how to start your FIRST INTERNET BUSINESS (e-commerce site) product store with little or no experience. There will be step-by-step workshops on how to set up your site and start making sales. The purpose of this group is to create a FREE (real time) WORKSHOPS broken into 3 categories: Create, Design, & Market. These three categories are essentials in order to get internet business off the ground. Business minded people who want to learn on how start an internet business …

I've thought many times how good it would be to get a group of creative web minds together. Looking for advanced and intermediate internet developers of all kinds, coders, designers, developers, SEO, etc... A good meeting showing each other new technologies, programs and designs. And time to help each other out with puzzling questions and issues. With absolutely no egos... Hopefully the right people might even be able to start some projects together. Web startups can't survive with 1 person! so …

When traveled alone, the journey of a web startup can be confusing and grueling. That's why we're creating a community to help web entrepreneurs and technical founders to connect, collaborate, and learn from each other. As Startup Camp grows, we plan on gathering more resources to provide support for early stage startups. We will host events and workshops 1 to 2 times a month. The format will mainly be "presentation" style, informal "mixer" type events, or peer-to-peer sharing. Our event …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space:  - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea …

… This group is limited to the web developers and internet entrepreneurs in Los Angeles area only. We are determined to keep it as a vibrant community and clean or any kind of junk. Any members posting unrelated links or any kind of spam unrelated to the group activities will be banned from the group.  -----

Whether you are promoting your small business, startup, media project, stage project or personal brand, you need to master marketing. There are literally hundreds of fast, effective, cheap and free tools you can use to quickly reach dozens of paying customers in a few days, hundreds in a month and thousands in a year. If you are having trouble figuring out how to quickly and cost effectively reach your target market, these weekly meetings will help. Our events are "satisfaction guaranteed".  If …

Entrepreneurs, innovators, value creators. You know who you are. We're about to activate the West LA startup scene - and you're invited! If you're defining the future of technology, media, entertainment, gaming, mobile, social, Internet, or any new media - then you ARE Silicon Beach. Techies, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Marketers, Deal Makers, Pixel Wizards, Video Artists, Producers.... are coming together to put West LA on the map. Join us to show off your goods, launch your tech company, learn n …