The single biggest issue for entrepreneurs at startups and even inside established organisations is to find customers that care enough about your ideas and early stage products to start paying you. Lean startup is a collection of principles, models, tools and methods that help to facilitate that search. We're a group of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs practicing & learning lean startup and customer development techniques. And we're ready to talk about our experiences and share the data from our …

This is a meetup for startups and people interested in the startup scene in Oxford. It is particularly intended to help people inside and outside the universities meet up. It is focused on software startups but everyone is welcome.

East London has the Silicon Roundabout. This is a meetup and network event for tech startups, entrepreneurs, angel investors, TV and new media people in West London and the TV Triangle. We'll be having regular monthly meetings in a great venue not far from Wood Lane. Dates to be announced soon.

RE.WORK combines entrepreneurship, technology and science to solve some of the world's greatest challenges using emerging technology. We showcase the opportunities of exponentially accelerating technologies and their impact on business and society. Emerging technology is providing an unprecedented era of opportunity for entrepreneurs and scientists to progress business and solve global challenges. Do you know how to leverage new technologies such as the internet of things, sensors, 3D printing, …

There are many networking events in london for tech people but none outside. In & around St Albans as well as Hertfordshire there are many IT companies of all shapes & sizes so I thought I'd create a meetup for us! I am looking for the group to consist of proactive people that are looking to achieve great things for their business using technology. The group will be what we make it! This meet up aims to be a platform that allows people to bounce ideas off one another, collaborate, discus …

A place for like minded people to meet casually and share stories about the ups and downs of starting and running a business. I am creating this group so we can all bounce ideas between each other. There will be a meetup on the first Wednesday of every month after work between 6pm to 8pm-ish. It costs peanuts to run a group on here and I am planning on using local pubs as venues so there will be no charge to participate.

Imagine mashing linkedin and kick starter in one place, and add that human face to face element and you have it. This group is an extension of my understanding that we do business with people we like and respect. New ventures, disruptive technologies may be the outcome, but connections and inspiration is guaranteed. Did you know over 70% of people are introduced to new employment and opportunities through people they know, not close friends, but people they know a bit. To network is to open up p …

Thank you to everyone who attended SHD we hope you have made some great contacts and had some fun at the same time. Unfortunately (or fortunate for us) our office now has lots of new desks so it has become unusable to hold events. We hope to resume next year and we will you know.  Wishing you all the best in your Start-up ventures! From the IOVOX Team.

Our networking events are for sole traders, home based and small business owners to meet up to openly discuss, debate and collaborate on issues affecting their businesses locally. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and experiences. We also offer educational events around subjects that directly affect small business. The FSB's mission is to be and remain the largest and most effective organisation promoting and protecting the interests of the self employed and small business owners within th …

Steward Townsend approved BarCampBankLondon 1 and 2 being hosted at Sun while he was there.  So without him we'd probably never have managed to start the events at all. He's now working for ICAP and is promoting a seed fund/incubator for early stage financial technology startups. FinTech Startups call to arms : Investment fund run through ICAP - wants to invest NOW For more information go to http://checkthis.com/4h6 FinTech Investment Fund Euclid Opportunities offers financial technology s …

OpenFlow has the possibility to disrupt the networking industry the way that Virtualization disrupted the server industryl. This is a community where we discuss/innovate and create new start-ups that leverage OpenFlow/SDN.

This group is for anyone that wants to know more about greening their organisation or creating businesses to solve today's environmental problems. Learn from others, network and let's make London "sustainable business capital of the world". Ambitious? Yes but as Dali said "intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." We hope to have a range of speakers and discussions covering the following areas: Environmental Problems facing London Solutions need (business opportunities) Examples o …

This group is intended for people who are interested in: -fashion design -creative & fashion entrepreneurs -fashion technology startups -shoppers of high fashion -fashion investors, angels & VCs - glamour nude photography - art nude - high fashion - boudoir We organize meet ups / workshops with top designers, models, fashion investors in a friendly and luxurious atmosphere. If you are a fashion lover, designer or a creative entrepreneur playing for the fashion dollar, and want to take your craf …

We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

The purpose of this group is to bring together people who have a passion for technology in education. Are you interested in programming, computer science, IT, or just integrating great technology into the classroom? Come and join us for monthly activities to learn from each other and develop new ideas! Feel free to suggest ideas for great events happening in London or around the UK.

This group is for anyone interested in developing mobile apps. The goal is to share experiences and learn from each other. We will also have some workshops on how to build apps and fireside chats with experts from the industry. There are 600k apps in the App store and Apple paid out $5.5 B to developers so far. However, only 5% of the developers/apps make most that money. This is why it is important to stay current in the industry and help each other succeed. Our initial plan is to meet twice a …

The aim of this group is to build a network of people interested in recommender systems and give them a forum for presenting and discussing ideas. We are a mixed group of people from research, industry, education, design and startups. If you have an interest in recommender systems, come and join us.

The meetup where people listen. We cut back the noise and focus on people who can teach us, interact with us, and help us learn from being around other like-minded people. Events often have multiple streams that relate to web design and development. Who should come: web designers and front-end pixel pushers back-end developers graphic designers involved in designing for the web web entrepreneurs web investors We focus on the future - the future is bright! Join us on the third Thursday …

Interested in the opportunities and disruptive potential of Google Glass? Are you a software coder who has built Android applications and is willing to explore the potential if building apps for Glass? Do you have an open mind, or have experience with brainstorming and collaborating in building cool stuff? If you believe that glass is a blank slate to develop completely new ways of engaging with our environment, people, objects and the internet, do come over. Even if you are a skeptic come in an …

For those who are geeks and like to socialise in a geeky way. This group is to cover all events from irreverent conversations, geeky quizzes, geek jokes (don't get me started on coding jokes).

This is a group for anyone interested in learning more about writing code using modern techniques by practising together in a friendly, cooperative atmosphere fuelled by the four main sources of nourishment for developers - curiosity, beer, pizza and caffeine. The group is language agnostic, although meetings are likely to focus on specific technologies. The group is centred on Guildford since it is fairly central to the area, and also has a number of high-tech startups nearby on the Surrey Rese …