Are you involved in creating, co-founding, or funding a tech/online/mobile startup in the South Bay (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance, El Segundo, Westchester, Gardena, Hawthorne, San Pedro, Lawndale, Carson, Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes)? This group exists to put people together people who are driving new businesses and ideas, and can help each other. People who should join? Entrepreneurs, investors, programmers, business development experts, marketers …

Welcome to SoCal Startup Pitchfest! A quarterly gathering of people who want to pitch their best start-up business ideas. Wether you're a seasoned entrepreneur, a brand new startup, or simply just need a place to test your idea... We're excited to have you join us! Absolutely everyone is welcome. NO IDEA IS TOO SMALL OR TOO LARGE. You don't have to pitch to attend. In fact, you can just sit in the back of the room with your shades on, if that's your thing. :) We really like to see and hear start …

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 …

Are you a minority entrepreneur with the next great Billion Dollar idea? Have you founded a $Million dollar company and want to share your knowledge? Now is an exciting time for entrepreneurs of all kinds, and we want to create a community and ecosystem to attract, cultivate, mentor and support the next great entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds. We believe changing the world begins with entrepreneurs. With less than 1% of venture backed startups founded by African-American or Hispanic/ Latino A …

OC Lean Startup Circle is the Orange County Chapter for the lean startup movement. It is hosted by K5. The OC Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that are focused on building products that matter, based on focused customer discovery, market opportunity and the right timing. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success f …

TCVN is one of Southern California’s premier technology business networks. Through a wide variety of forums, pitch sessions, workshops, and other networking events, we bring together entrepreneurs and resources from every facet of the technology and startup landscape.

This is a Techology Startups oriented group using group members collaboration to help kick off local tech companies and support those who have ideas but don’t have the resources to bring it to market. There are so much talents that is under-utilized that we wanted to create an environment that help channel creativity and entrepreneurship and be specifically focused on early ideas and how to support transforming those ideas into tangibles. We welcome professionals in all fields (business, account …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Orange County Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Orange County serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who compl …

A group that connects entrepreneurs, startups, investors, educators, and pioneers interested in using technology to improve the learning process.

Calling all web, mobile and application developers near the South Bay of Los Angeles, California... We're getting together to share information about creating solid technology products in a variety of development platforms. Our goals are (in order): fun, career advancement, education, and networking (meeting people IRL). We're connected to the South Bay Entrepreneurial Center, a new option for startups in the South Bay, but you don't have to be in a startup to want to have fun, learn more and me …

This is a group for startups, entrepreneurs and other businesses who have legal questions and need answers. Come speak to an experienced business attorney for free and keep your business legal. As a startup ourselves we know there are many challenges to getting your business off the ground; simple answers to legal questions should not be one of them.

Are you looking for inspiration? Seeking community? Hungry? Thirsty? Join the FLF community of hungry startups and entrepreneurs and help us change the world. www.thefreelunchfriday.com. We feed the startups and entrepreneurs that feed our global economies. Free Lunch Friday (FLF) is a non-profit with a simple goal; to provide community, content, connections and access to capital to the hungry startups and entrepreneurs who drive global economy. Free Lunch Friday is a connector for startups, ent …

It does't take a village to start a business, but a little help along the way couldn't hurt. FastStart.studio is a mixed-use business incubator in Irvine. FastStart.events are our free events to help entrepreneurs in Orange County. Meet other entrepreneurs and learn from awesome subject matter experts on subjects like; Lean Startup Strategy, Rapid Prototyping, Angel Investors, Creating a Team and Mobile platforms. The goal of FastStart.events is to provide OC with a location and the content that …

TIMEOC was started to help people get technology ideas made into reality. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Anyone with a technology idea (ESPECIALLY if you have been thinking about it for some time and have not REALLY done anything about it just yet). Software and/or business developers, graphic artists, testers, copywriters, etc. Others that may want to contribute. WHAT WE DO: We take your idea and help you refine it, test it and build your prototype.  Just to be clear - you are doing the work.  We just …

Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 event to promote the creation of new networks among aspiring entrepreneurs, current entrepreneurs and investors in innovative cities globally. Both men and women are invited to attend Founder Friday. Founder Friday is hosted in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Austin, New York, Boston, Detroit, Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Bogota (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Vancouver (Canada) and …

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Long Beach Tech is a network of Entrepreneur, Designers, and Techies with a passion for making Long Beach a tech hub. ** You must be approved to join Long Beach Tech. **

"Ideas without relationships is just academics. Relationships without ideas is just networking." - Phil Lader TechChic is a community inspired by Benjamin Franklin's coffeehouse. The London coffeehouse that Franklin founded was a place where great people congregated to discuss profound ideas that led to breakthrough innovation. TechChic replicates that concept in a modern day context for the tech industry, starting first with Los Angeles. The founders, Melissa Lim and Sandra Pan, are tech enthus …

This is a group that designers and developers can get together and team up to create digital products, such as websites, mobile apps, and games.

We are a  small business focused on providing affordable and accessible engineering work space and resources. Our purpose is to contribute to revitalizing American creativity in the areas of product development, prototyping, and manufacturing. Our new facility provides access to basic hand tools, shop power tools such as band saw, table saw, and drill press, as well as laptops and instruments suitable for small electronics prototyping such as oscilloscopes, function and arbitrary waveform genera …

The San Pedro International Film Festival was founded to celebrate the diverse culture and community of San Pedro with a wide spectrum of independent film, documentaries, and shorts. SPIFF is committed to exhibiting films that embody inspiring entertainment for all. Works that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the intent that these films enlighten audiences while providing invaluable exposure for filmmakers, local and international. www.SPIFFest.org

I'm interested to unite CTOs (or aspiring CTOs) in Orange County, CA to share visions, cross-promote our respective ventures, help each other solve problems, present/learn, and occasionally get together for introductions & networking.

A few of us from SendGrid want to mix it up with anyone about agile / lean. Whether you so agile now (and even if you don't like coffee), consider meeting up to discuss agile methodologies wrt software dev (testing, project mgmt, product ownership, coaching) or life-hacking. There's simply not enough OC meet-ups on agile/lean, right??!! Might be mostly mornings, unless people like later times. Talk about stuff we tried and results, stuff we wanna try and expectations, or just coffee.

We organize monthly mixers in the South Bay (EL SEGUNDO, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, SAN PEDRO...) for Italian Professionals and Italophiles who live in the South Bay. The objective is to create a business network for that part of the Italian community of the SOUTH BAY: PROFESSIONALS who are interested in expanding an existing business or getting a start-up off the ground. This is a goal-oriented group that will be pursuing concrete business- and networking-plans …

This is a meetup group for those interested in learning more about MongoDB.

If you want to join some software dev/design meetups but hate having to drive too far, then this group is for you. South Bay locals, you know what I mean. Hoping to get together at least once a month for drinks, dinner, and discussions about software development, technology, startups, and other geeky related topics.

Mix & Mentor™ is a community that brings together promising entrepreneurs with industry experts and investors to overcome specific startup challenges. With its unique format, Mix & Mentor™ forges deep long lasting connections between entrepreneurs and mentors. Designed to meet the needs of local startups and small businesses. Events often include mentor-led discussion, interactive workshops and demonstrations by technical advisors, coaching from industry experts, and networking with other startu …

Where innovation, Technology, business and Investment come together. A non-profit community based center for public benefit providing incubation, training, mentoring and funding resources for entrepreneurs throughout the 14 cities of the South Bay. Currently accepting applications for Charter tenants in the 1108 Sartori #108.   www.thesbec.org