Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch.  The event planning team of New York Startup Pitch Night is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch.  Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment.  Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the New York City, New York region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new …

We connect people with content and opportunities in the NYC startup community by featuring guest speakers from awesome companies. Great way to meet like-minded individuals and learn more about the startup scene. Founded by Dan Porter (GM Zynga NY/CEO OMGPOP), Inside Startups also manages a directory of startups - here - and we send a weekly email with top jobs and events. Free to receive and low-cost to post, it's a great resource whether you're looking for opportunities, aiming to hire, or just …

This group is catered for people who are looking to partner up or simply network with like minded individuals trying to make a difference. NYC Technology Startups and its people share a common vision, to be: First to see opportunities, first to define categories, and first to revolutionize the industry.

NY Startup Innovators is for those doing exciting and new things in the Big Apple, within the startup and small business spaces. Maestro leads this group and has the goal to equip entrepreneurs and their staff with the tools they need to excel. Learn more about Maestro: www.TheMaestroProject.com This MeetUp forum creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, techies, startup educators and investors to gather in the name of excelling, not just meeting goals. We offer investor feedback and pitch panel …

Mission: Startup Championship brings Tech Startups together to pitch and compete in front of a large crowd and a mature judge panel of investors. The winner pitch will get a large sum of cash and exposure to NYC investors. Championship Details: Meetups will be held in form of tournaments where everyone with a startup will get an opportunity to pitch and get exposure, feedback, access to investors, discounted services and cash prizes. Each championship will be split over a series of small meetups …

The meetup group that connects music industry professionals and technology innovators in an educational setting. Follow us @MusicStartup

The fact of the matter is bowling is a game that some of us deep down inside really really really enjoy. Some of us like to play while drunk, some like to play while delivering mounds and mounds of trash talk. However, whatever your inclination whether of the drunken variety, the pure enjoyment variety, or even the trash talking variety, Startup Bowling is going to be about bringing developers, designers, business developers, VCs, investors and the remaining gamut of the New York startup communi …

Bring your thoughts for a new Startup ideas, share your experience and come to find your future partners!

From Jay-Z to Warren Buffet there is no denying that Hip Hop has embedded itself all over the business world while influencing some of the greatest minds to date. We aim to show the correlation and lessons to be learned between Hip Hop and the Business World. While you wait for the next meetup, check out our interviews over at The Phat Startup!

The DIGS Technology Meetup is a group of entrepreneurs, investors and people who just love technology & innovation. We are a group open to everyone; however, our mission is the development and support of minority-owned technology ventures.

FinTech Startups - Those entrepreneurs creating alpha driving technology • Knowledge sharing and networking with industry thought-leaders • Expert speakers range from nascent technology evangelists to venture capital veterans • Bridging the gap between FinTech Entrepreneurs and the investment community

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Described by The New York Times as "the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel,” AIPAC is a 100,000-member grassroots movement of activists committed to ensuring Israel’s security and protecting American interests in the Middle East and around the world. AIPAC’s priority is to ensure that both America and Israel remain strong and that they collaborate closely together on a wide range of issues. From promoting peace between Israel and its neighbors to facilitatin …

Startup Weekend is a non-profit organization that helps put on event around the world. The event is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action. Find all the information and get your tickets at http://nyc.startupweekend.org/ Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/startupweekend/

CollegeStartUp.org strives to connect students with educational experiences where they can grow into successful entrepreneurs. College StartUp x Launchpad LI is a one-day college startup competition to create and pitch an idea for the chance to win $1,000 CASH sponsored by DormFunding.com Students from all over are invited to share their talents to create an idea from scratch, form teams of 3-7 people, and present a pitch deck in front of an expert panel of experienced professionals. Passionate …

Are you involved in a New York City startup that's trying to change the way real estate works? Are you involved in real estate and curious how technology might change your world? If so, this is the meetup for you!

So many memories ... Ping pong is the ultimate stress reliever, it's the mental block breaker and for designers, developers, biz dev, founders, sales, vc's, investors and all around anyone involved in the nyc tech and startup community it's another way to genuinely connect. These games are all about having a good time and coming together to forge new relationships. We'll have some open run (pick up) games at local spots around NYC, as well as regular large tournaments. Join us and let's get a fe …

Welcome to Crowdfunding for Startups where we wanted to bring like minded investors and startups together to talk about the huge benefits for startups from the crowdfunding movement! Host: Return on Change is the next generation's crowdinvesting platform that will bring high-impact start-ups and investors together! The law has been passed and now is the critical time for us to bring our heads together to think about ways to help shape crowdinvesting into the revolutionary platform it is intende …

Are you new to the New York Startup Community? This is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in NYC. We'll give you the inside scoop on key events/meetups to attend, companies, VCs, blogs, incubators, and more.

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralightstartup …

Startup Waffles was started by the StartupDigest co-founders Chris & Brendan to bring together founders and hackers for tasty waffles. For our first Waffle event we had no idea what to expect but 80 Founders ended up coming to our small apartment including a TechCrunch writer, 3 VC’s, and companies were giving tech demos!! It was crazy. Since our first success and since holding Startup Waffles events in NYC and Kansas City we decided to create this into a regular event. Join to stay up to date o …

Black Tech is a meetup group to establish a community of technology professionals that help to advance startups born in the black community. No, you do not have to be black to join the group! But you do need to be committed to enhance the experience of a minority startup. The basic format of our meetups will be as follows: Intro and Thanks - 2 minutes or less Topic Speaker - 15 Minutes Speaker Q & A - 15 Minutes Break -  10 minutes Startup Showcase - 30 Minutes (2 early stage startup's @ 15 …

After helping form the San Fransisco and Seattle "Settler's of Catan" leagues, where executives from VC backed technology startups would gather, network, and play "Settler's of Catan," I decided that since I'm a New Yorker now, I would do the same here. The purpose of the group is for executives from New York technology startups to get together, network, play Settler's, and see who will be the "Lord of all Catan." We did this very successfully in both San Fransisco and Seattle.  We were covered …

The goal of NJ Tech Gals is to provide an eco-system of support for gals making big waves in the NJ tech-o-sphere. We met at NJ Tech Meetup (NJ's largest technology community) and realized there is a real need for gals in tech to network and share our experiences. Soooo.... we set our first meetup to do just that! Join us to connect with other like-minded technology enthusiasts who are interested in entrepreneurship and building awesome companies. We are entrepreneurs, developers, designers, ma …

The NY Tech scene is unique and growing rapidly. Join us and meet others in the technology business space and chat strategy, mobile, web, successes, failures and everything in between! While the technology startup scene is in some ways a field of dreams, developing technology isn't a matter of "build it and they will come." Successful innovation lies in a combination of intelligent business strategy and informed technology.

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Based on our experience running a funded e-commerce startup headquartered in New York City, we believe that the traditional disciplines of technology, product and marketing will increasingly converge in the startup setting. If you're currently working at a startup on the bleeding edge of innovation, this is not news to you. It's happening all around us. In some cases, professionals choose to take on a mix of these skills themselves, while in other cases it's more about a professional fully embra …

This is a group for the founders and leaders of fashion technology startups. The group is here to connect established and up-and-coming leaders. This is not a group for fashion bloggers or plain e-commerce companies, but for #fashiontech startups that leverage disruptive new business models and emerging technologies to sell the beautiful fashion that we all love.