Belgian platform for starters Check the online platform: www.startups.be Startups.be is an open initiative, each organization offering support to (potential and starting) entrepreneurs (govenmental, not-for-profit and companies) can join by endorsing the charter. These organizations have committed already: Addestino Innovation Management, Agence Bruxelloise pour l’Entreprise (ABE), Agentschap Ondernemen, Agile Minds, Agoria, Angel.me, Be Angels, BeNovate, BetaGroup, Bizidee, Board of Innovation …

This group is for students, developers, designers, scientists, hackers and startups related to Social Media. We talk business models, (mainly Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter) API's, software tools, algorithms, social media research. So many cool social media initiatives are going on in Amsterdam, and we encounter similar obstacles.  Let's meetup and help others go forward.

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is an amazing opportunity to connect with other passionate and skilled individuals, and perhaps even find a co-founder or two to transform your idea into reality. Check out our website  http://amsterdam.startupweekend.org/ for more info.

Lean Startup Eindhoven Meetup Group connects designers, artists, geeks, hackers, architects, entrepreneurs and other creative people. Multi-disciplinary approach of people and technology issues brings great results. One of them is starting You up.

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 …

This is a group to exchange ideas on technology, funding, business models and adoption around Linked Data knowledge visualizations and discovery as the next thing beyond traditional business analytics and intelligence. First focus on healthcare and life sciences but open to engage in other industries! Looking for passionnate and engaged members willing to share lessons learned and demonstrate showcases.

/dev/haag is a monthly gathering of like-minded programmers, designers, journalist and others who share an interest in both technology and design. We try to keep things open and free format so we organize a few workshops ourselves and leave the rest open for attendees to fill in (like a BarCamp).

Join Petminds for an early morning open coffee. You can meet up with Petminders for a talk about startups, entrepreneurship and pets. We guess there will be lot’s of angels, founders and mentors present, since startup mentor Sebastiaan Hooft will be visiting the event. Petminds is your animal behavior specialist. We mind the quality of life of pets and owners.

We are the Ruby User Group from Rotterdam. Our goals are to create a network, share knowledge and promote the usage of Ruby and related technologies. We also talk about TDD, startup strategies, agile development practices, scaling, cloud computing and more.

An active community of innovative entrepeneurs, developers and designers. Join us and meet like-minded people. Go to www.utrechtinc.nl and read more about our incubation program and network. Go to www.pluginc.nl and read more about our coworking space for developers and designers.

Open podium voor ideeën en uitvoering door middel van samenwerking. De Netwerkerij organiseert Breda Kansrijk in Cafe Vullings op de Grote Markt op maandag tussen 10-12: Start 18 februari 2013

Deze bijeenkomst is speciaal voor jonge ondernemers die aan hun netwerk willen werken. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst kan je jouw ervaringen delen met andere jonge ondernemers. Als jonge ondernemer ben je elke laatste donderdag van de maand van harte welkom in hartje Utrecht.

Holland hackers interested in startups. Are you building something? Is it awesome? Shiny enough to show to other people and possibly found a company on? Please come hangout with us. We need more of those people in our lives. Formed by fans of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com), the original Hackers and Founders started in Silicon Valley almost 3 years ago. Hackers and Founders meetups have since been meeting in New York, Indianapolis, Wellington, New Zealand, Boston and Mumbai. We are the …

Wij zijn UDesign. Wij zijn een innovatienetwerk. Onder innovatie verstaan wij activiteiten die gericht zijn op verbetering of vernieuwing. En dat is precies wat wij willen faciliteren. Vernieuwing start bij ideeën. Wij geloven dat deze ideeën ontstaan door mensen met verschillende achtergronden met elkaar te verbinden. ‘Creatief denken’ brengt ons samen en kan leiden tot bijzondere, out-of-de-box ideeën. Met onze gezamenlijke denkkracht kunnen zo nieuwe inzichten, producten, diensten, technologi …

Clojure is an exciting programming language for the JVM. Whether you are a highly skilled functional programmer or just starting to learn the ropes and wanting to check out the waters, you are more than welcome to join us in: - Teaching each other Clojure - Presenting ongoing work and new technologies/libraries - Hacking on our own Open Source projects (Dojo sessions) - Looking for Clojure startup opportunities - Drinking a couple of beers! Warning: Once you have seen the true power of Lisp …

(Sroll naar beneden voor Nederlandse Versie) 3D Printing Amsterdam is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modeling techniques, curious …

For anyone interested in Node.js we like to get you all together and share each other's experiences. We plan to have 1 or 2 short presentations every meetup, which will range from introductions to Node, to the philosophy of/behind Node, and actual companies/startups that use Node.js. Feel free to come, whether you're a Node.js veteran with decades of javascript experience or just have an interest to see what happens in Node.js land. And yes, beers will be available.

The objective of the BeMyApp WeekEnd Brussels meetup is to gather together like-minded and creative people for a weekend-long mobile app hackathon. In this group you can discuss app ideas, get insights on how to prepare for your pitch, and start any sort of discussion with regard to app development, UX, new technologies, etc. BeMyApp WeekEnds take places every 3 months in various places around the world; hackathon with a spirit, BeMyApp aspires to promote an encounter between imagination and exe …

Social Beta organises events on media, technology and creative industries. We are interested in the impact of media and technology on economy, culture & society. The Creative industries is our community and Eutropolis our playground.

Launchdesk organizes drinks and lectures for startups, freelancers, designers, marketeers and developers. We aim to connect everyone that rents a desk at one of our amazing offices, but everyone is welcome to join!

We love to talk about fashion startups & the future of fashion. Can we predict fashion trends? What are the possibilities of 3D printing? Join the group and get to know when our first meetup is being held. Wish to talk, sponsor or co-organize meetups? Send a message to René. http://www.fashiontechamsterdam.com/

The business world is experiencing a paradigm shift: technologically enabled and social media driven, organisations change profoundly in their interaction with consumers, stakeholders and their employees. The result is an emerging social business culture that re-shapes the way business is conducted: ethical, personal, value- and relationship based. The purpose of the A'dam Social Business Group is to discuss, exchange best practice, relate (instead of simply network) and to form a creative exper …

Open Coffee events are regular informal meet-ups for entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in entrepreneurship - most of the time with an online component. OpenCoffee Meetup Den Haag is scheduled every 1st Wednesday of the month.  Meeting language is Dutch and/or English. The idea is that there is one place and time where people can have a coffee before going to work and might meet some interesting folks - sometimes there's a Meetup topic and a speaker, but networking with people at the …

Open Coffee Amsterdam is a monthly event held at the Bovendebalie coworking space. It's an informal meetup for web enthusiasts: entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in entrepreneurship. Open Coffee is held every 1st Thursday of the month at 9:30am in De Balie at the Leidseplein. Start the day with a cup of coffee before going to work. You just might meet some interesting folks.

Meeting for internet and media entrepreneurs for the Euregio.

Open Coffee Club is an informal meeting in a friendly setting, where starters, entrepreneurs and investors can get to know each other over a cup of coffee (or a beer). Expand your network to create alliances, exchange ideas, discuss business ideas and much more! No slides, no conferences, just conversations. Be cool. Organized by @ramonsuarez

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

Are you interested in social entrepreneurship, do you have your own project or do you just want to know more about it? Curious about solving challenges of social entrepreneurs in a fast and crowd-sourced way? Want to know how to accelerate your social impact? Then join the Sensedrinks! But what's a Sensedrink you might ask? Well, the idea is pretty simple... people interested in social entrepreneurship come together to connect, talk, laugh and why not... cry ;). Because we believe that one can m …