If you're building a business, we know it can be as tough as it is rewarding. What's more, if you're working from home or cafes it can be isolating too. That's why we want to bring you together with other business owners and tech startups from the North Shore. We run events around StartNest, the new co-working incubator in Crows Nest.

This is intended to be a fun and social way to meet others in Boni beach who are interested in startups and entrepreneurship. You can be a local small business owner, a newbie to startups, a seasoned investor or anything in between. The focus Is on having a great conversation and not so much on 'networking' although you're free to bring business cards if you really want.

Sydney Tech Startup Meetup (formerly known as OpenCoffee Sydney)  is based on a similar, successful idea introduced in London, and is about creating a regular, informal, meeting place for people involved in, or who want to be involved in, the Tech Startup Industry We know Sydney has the talent, but we've never really had a regular place for all the technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers, creatives and anyone else with an interest in tech startups to just hang out. The more we get to kno …

Interested in startups but don't know where to start? Let us help you navigate the tech scene and introduce you to entrepreneurs attempting to change the world. Our free events include "Intro to the Sydney Startup Community" and "Founders Exchange" with some of most well respected startup folks in Sydney. And there is always plenty of drinks and networking.

Join our community of next generation startups. Let's get together to network, socialize and share best practices about the new way of building and running your business more efficiently and competitive than ever before. We will organize various events and workshops with the support of the world's leading online work platform. These events will be a great opportunity for you - as an entrepreneur, small business owner or startup enthusiast - to network with like-minded people in your area, learn …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Sydney Datapreneurs is a niche group, specifically for entrepreneurial people who build businesses/software based on data. If that's not your interest, check out these meetups: For Sydney startups, check out http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach/ and http://www.meetup.com/open-coffee-sydney/ Analysts and data mining consultants should check out http://www.meetup.com/datarati/ and http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Sydney/ For big data, check out http://www.meetup.com/SMAQDown-Sydney/ and http://sydney. …

We're fans of Juniper, a networking vendor of high-end equipment. The Juniper meetup group is designed for people, technicians and network engineers who are interested in the developments in JUNOS, Juniper technologies and Juniper network infrastructure developments. This MeetUp/User Group will bring together: - SE's, and other staff from Juniper - SE's from Juniper Partners - Juniper Distrubutors - Juniper enthusiasts from anywhere else! We will start having meeting in March 2012, most likely …

We live in Silicon Beach so it only seems right that we have a surfing meet-up for start-up founders, investors, and anyone involved in the local tech start-up community. We meet twice a week at the North Sydney break for some waves and an early morning catch-up out in the surf. Best way to start your day by a mile, and catch up with some familiar faces at the same time.

A meet-up to get tech start-up co-founders investors together on a monthly basis for a Poker Tournament

This is the first Sydney based meet-up dedicated to learning Ruby on Rails. Whether you are a developer, a startup founder, or someone who just wants to learn how to code, this is the meet-up you can't miss! We'll discuss all Ruby on Rails related topics, let you know about workshops, hack-fests and share lots of great beginner material as well! Ruby is such a beautiful language, why not to spread the joy?

InsightfulCRM is a consulting and system integration firm, with clients across Australia and New Zealand. We help organisations better engage with current and future customers by developing customer-centric strategies, which we bring into being through innovative use of technology.

“Intrapreneur” is an employee of a large company or a Government agency who is running or promoting a “startup within an enterprise” – a highly innovative project that promises great returns or great savings. An intrapreneur can focus their energy on a new product, or on using new tools and processes to support and improve existing products. In all cases intrapreneurs have to rely on their vision, on “validated learning” through the project and on gradually building the support rather than on ca …

discover science and technology, collaborate with like minded people, and pitch your research project to Pearing for potential investment. Don't just network, achieve something.

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/SSVNetwork Follow us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ycd24uk Check the SSV Network Innovation Hubs' Worldwide Map: http://www.communitywalk.com/SSVNetwork Entrepreneurs, investors and all other resources providers need better relationships matchmaking. SSVN is an internet-based entrepreneurship support system e …

Meet geeks. Talk to people whose eyes do not glaze over. Listen to expert talks then ask difficult questions. Do that social thing that you do so well. Port80 is part of the Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA). We are the white hats in the web industry; join us to help educate the market and for your own professional development. Open to suggestions for speakers, sponsors, and best dates or times!

Sydney's first Web Designers Meetup: This group is made up of professional Web designers looking to network with others in the industry; Talk design for the Web; Share experience with use of different tools & languages; Critique Web sites; Talk industry, business, employment and Share motivations and inspirations. We hope you will reach your own Web Design Nirvana. We'll meet regularly at businesses & establishments around Sydney, and hopefully put on some cool events.

Bringing together people with very different perspectives on what digital means for the way we work, live, and look at the world; across all its guises; social media, online, enterprise collaboration, mobile…..Past gatherings have included a wide mix of people from writers, start-ups, entrepreneurs, management consultants, independent thinkers, and academics. Perspectives vary widely. The common thread is a passion for the positive impact of digital and how to get value from it. The ultimate aim …

A casual get together for internet developers (from frontend UI/UX right through to hard core backend and infrastructure) where anything goes, and the beer flows like water!

We are a group of investors (male and female) who want to invest in a range of opportunities including businesses (as angel investors or capital venturists), currencies, properties, shares, futures, options, commodities etc. We aim to meet socially in a relaxed, fun environment as well as semi-formally. We could even organise outings to bring us together informally, if the group is interested. When people talk of investments, they refer to Property, Stock Markets, Foreign Exchange, product launc …

This is a group for anyone involved with or interested in Cloud Computing. You could be looking for a great cloud solution, you could be a cloud developer, a coder, an entrepreneur, an investor... in short there's a massive shift to cloud computing and if you're involved then you'll want to be involved in this group...