Business and Social Networking Events for San Francisco Bay Area Entrepreneurs and Professionals to create new business and personal connections, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. Our members include successful entrepreneurs, startup founders, small business owners, business executives, technology gurus, attorneys, bankers, angel investors, real estate developers, franchise owners, local retail and restaurant owners, physicians, and other San Francisco Bay Area professionals …

Have you been to a business networking event where conversation was stilted? Or where your conversation partner seemed to be trying to assess if you might be a potential client, rather than being interested in who you really are? Have you learned an elevator pitch technique that sounded great, but felt forced when it actually came out of your mouth? Do you feel uncomfortable when networking, or even dread attending events?When we seek to grow our businesses, find new positions, and make new cont …

Bay Area Professional Woman’s Network (BAPWN), established in 2004 by Founder and President Jasara Lawrence, in San Francisco, California. Now residing in Oakland, California Jasara is ready to re-launch BAPWN better then ever! BAPWN started with a group girlfriends located throughout the Bay Area for dinner once a month at rotating locations throughout the Bay Area. After the first event, the group of girls recruited their friends and their friends recruited their friends and so on. By the fift …

This group is designed for saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled Christians who recognize their professional success is derived from their personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Our core values are based on John 21:17 and John 13:34: "If you love me you will feed my sheep" and "As I have loved you, so you must love one another." We embrace and reflect Romans 8:9,14: "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have t …

This group is for anyone who dreams of starting a business, is in startup mode, or currently works in a business that has some social impact. We are also ninjas (figuratively speaking). You will learn cutting-edge business management and interpersonal skills, meet great people, and have fun.

Join one of the fastest growing community of single professionals! Our mission is to connect and engage contemporary single professionals with community organizations and local events. We provide business and social networking opportunities within our vibrant community and a rich social calendar filled with interesting activities. Connect with new friends who share similar interests in our network of active single professionals. Our events includes community service, charity fundraisers, spe …

        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 …

The group is devoted to learning how to use and monetize the social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Branch Out, Plaxo, the Referral Network, Merchant Circle, Quepaso, and many others. We will have group meetings to share success strategies and learn what works and doesn't, as well as have speakers, teleseminars, and webinars to provide tips on what to do. The group will become part of a network of Social Media Connection groups in other parts of the U.S. and other countries. …

Marketing and a Martini a recipe for fun, conversation and collaboration We will focus on organic ways to grow your business using a sustainable, systematic approach to marketing that is in alignment with who you are and the clients you serve. With an emphasis on networking, online and off, expect tips that will help you gain visibility, credibility and profits. Expect presentations and interactive exercises, plus time for brainstorming. We will cover low tech as well as high tech ways you can c …

The aim of this group is to provide a platform for networking, organize presentations dealing with business related topics and of course the opportunity to meet like-minded people to exchange ideas. We will meet every other week altering between presentation/discussion and networking/socializing. To give you a glimpse into our presentation list: –advantages and disadvantages being an employee vs being a freelancer –opportunity to introduce new businesses and business ideas –preparing presentatio …

San Francisco, Marin Referral Mixer is a community made up of local business owners and professionals in the San Francisco, Marin area that gather regularly (6-12x a year) for LARGE (100's of local business owners / professionals) Referral Mixers. Held at a private venue, the mixers bring hundreds of local business owners and professionals together in a fun, social collaborative environment designed to help members get to know one another and actively look to drive referral business to one anot …

Let's come together and collaborate to build great businesses! Are you looking for a strategic business partner - perhaps someone in a business complementary to yours,  where you provide a different product or service, but you both target the same customer demographic. Why not work together for the benefit of both of you? Or maybe you're ready for growth, but lack the skill set to take you to the next level - are you great at managing operations, but not so great at marketing - and gee, would …

San Francisco Professional Career Women connects ambitious professional women through a series of events, social media & kateblakeinc.com. The purpose of this Meetup group is to enable Bay Area women to reach their ultimate potential by offering a platform to promote, connect and support other women locally and globally. At the Vancouver Peace Summit in September 2009, the Dalai Lama stated that we are seeing the rise of the feminine energy globally as we move toward a more compassionate, empath …

NETWORK FOR POWERFUL CONNECTIONS - Meet investors - Pitch your business idea at our meeting - receive feedback from Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs etc, ask for advice, network in person.

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, in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, …

iDate2011 (Internet Dating and Dating Industry Business Convention) investigates the Internet Dating and Social Networking business. It serves as the industry's largest convention. Our next convention is on June 22-24, 2011 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, USA. Topics discussed include: dating software, matchmaking software, partnerships, payments, business strategy, wireless, advertisement methods, background checks, legal, venture capital, and new technology.