VanHANA is a group for anyone interested in SAP HANA. As a group we will work together to build innovative startups, successful products, in-demand solutions and industry expertise. This is the group for you: If you have a startup or thinking about one that can benefit from in-memory computing. If you are working for SAP HANA project and want to know more. You are expert in building successful products, teams, solutions and looking for next big area of growth. What is SAP HANA? SAP HANA is SAP …

Meeting the right people is crucial. We look to match ideas with talent, hustlers with hackers and provide a great opportunity to meet other people in Vancouver working in the Tech Industry. We are the official meetup for Launch Academy and Grow Lab, as well as community run events like Demo Camp. Want to have an event without having to create an entire new Meetup group? Want to host or promote an event to 100s of web, software, and design craftspeople in Vancouver? Interested in cool cross-dis …

http://PitchMasters.org...Saving The World From Painful Pitches "Like the Dragon's Den (tm) mixed with a party" PitchMasters was created give entrepreneurs a place to practice their pitch in a fun, non-threatening environment -- facilitate joint ventures AND have a great time. WARNING This is NOT another boring business networking Meetup! WHO :: Entrepreneurs, sales & marketing pros, new venture startups, businesses practicing investor pitches http://PitchMasters.org Founder, http://jasonbax.co …

EIO is an international, collaborative organization developed by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.  Our aim is to flip the 96% failure rate of startup businesses upside-down on its head by providing emerging and established entrepreneurs with the know-how, training and development in a community of like-minded, high-performing peers. Free For Guests - Our Meetups are every Thursday! At ING Direct 466 Howe Street Vancouver from 7-9 PM.  Learn practical business take-aways while networking with ot …

A meetup in Vancouver for readers of Hacker News and fans of Y Combinator. We welcome anyone interesting in startups, hacking, tech and entrepreneurship.

//collaborate here Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and …

A group for tech entrepreneur's interested in growing their companies and meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. Have a beer and chat with seasoned tech CEO's, and learn how you can build the next Billion dollar company.

WE ARE HERE TO OFFER ZERO COST NETWORKING EVENTS TO HELP START UPS MEET NEW PEOPLE AND FIND SOME SOLUTIONS TO HELP THEM GET THERE BUSINESS OFF THE GROUND. WE WILL OFFER MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THEIR BUSINESS IN FRONT OF OTHERS AND HOPEFULLY MAKE SOME GREAT CONECTIONS. NO REFERAL FEES, NO ENTRY FEE JUST STRAIGHT UP COST EFFECTIVE NETWORKING. IT WILL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET NOT ONLY OUR MEET UP MEMBERS BUT ALSO EXISTING CLIENTS THAT WORK FROM OUR 7  VANCOUVER LOCATIONS.

This is a group for anyone wanting to get together and share ideas on how to crowdfund to get the funding necessary to fund projects, businesses and more.

To join, members need to be actively running a business that: has 10-50+ employees OR has annual revenue of at least $1M This group is for experienced entrepreneurs who want to honestly discuss business challenges and insights with their peers. There are lots of meetups catering to people just starting out in business, but this isn't one of them. Here are some proposed topics: Let’s talk about money What are your margins? What is your customer acquisition cost? What is your average customer …

Become a part of the largest not-for-profit Internet Marketing Meetup In Canada The Internet Masterminds Group Meetup The purpose of this group is to develop our businesses, marketing, share ideas, discuss strategies, and talk to people who get exited when we talk about internet marketing. We get together every Monday at 7pm to discuss various issues that we rarely get to talk about in the "real world". We are an internet marketing mastermind group that discusses: * Internet Marketing * Social …

Hello Fellow Geek Entrepreneurs! This meetup is for tech entrepreneurs who want to elevate their game.  As a professional entrepreneur coach, I will provide 15 minutes or so of coaching to each person in turn. It will be great learning for both the group watching and of course for each of you who get's to be coached. So, each of you should bring something specific that you want to work on. Remember that coaching is not first and foremost about technology or business although both those realms …

Turning your great idea into a viable food product is a complicated task at the best of times. If you are like me you have encountered a lot of hurdles that you need to overcome in order to bring your product to market. Let's meet and help each other navigate through this complicated process. Meetups will address product development, marketing, branding, food labelling regulations, financing, distribution and any other topics that members want to talk about. Meet other people that have faced the …

You're always busy, yet your mandate is to get out and meet more people! Mornings suck, and evenings are already crammed with family, friends, and other stuff. Sure, there are events scheduled throughout the month, but they always seem to happen at the same time. Some networking groups look okay until they hit you with an application and a fee. So, what's a Young Urban Professional to do? How's about meeting at LUNCH? Grab a bite. Exchange cards. Give everyone a ten second pitch, and get …

The HiVE Vancouver hosts ongoing events for organizations and individuals interested in social and environmental sustainability. We also help small businesses get organization and provided an excellent community for entrepreneurs with a passion for the environment and their community.

Ebooks, videos, audio programs, seminars, webinars, coaching, phew! Information products are one of the fastest growing online industries. Turn your current, unique knowledge into a viable, fun and profitable business! Join us for a night of sharing 'best-practices'. What worked, what didn't, and how do we grow our businesses as quickly and ethically as possible? Find out at the next Vancouver Infopreneur Meetup!

Hello, We are starting this group to educate and to help business owners and like minded people network together. What you will get out of this is new friends, business partners, investors, and also valuable tools you will learn from our invites and key note speakers. You should join if your a business owner, looking to become a business owner, looking to connect with like minded people, looking to invest, or your just looking to meet new people.  This group is not for sales pitching.

This group is for frustrated business people who want to make sense of the web... We will be touching on topics such as social media, blogging, building on online storefront.

This group is for any Aussie or kiwi entrepreneurs living in Vancouver, who wants to meetup to drink a few beers and talk about our north America takeover.

Imagine expanding your business into the business of your dreams now. The purpose of the Hot100Business Association Vancouver is to help create and manage accelerated growth now, instead of waiting for it to happen later. The economy may be a challenge but…. it’s not the primary determinant of growth for a well-run Hot100Business. Right now, a growing number of the Hot100Business Association members are working on accelerating their own growth and helping other members to do the same. Monthly: W …

The Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce is a strong and credible voice for business, representing more than 600 members in Vancouver Westside. It is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization. Operating for more than 75 years, the Chamber is also one of the most active chambers in the Lower Mainland. Issues that affect the members are of primary concern to the Chamber. It is the members who are the driving force behind the city – their opinions are extremely important. As an advocate for these me …

Our meetup events are organized to help you start, build and grow your business. Each event provides you with high quality business training and education as well as an opportunity to network with fellow entrepreneurs. Events are designed to give you practical information, business strategies, tips, tricks, useful tools and innovative ideas on how to manage and grow your business better. We invite business experts and entrepreneurs to share with you their experiences, strategies and tips that w …

Meet up with Asians and non-Asians professionals to mingle, share ideas, social network, and to make new friends. Event varies from dining out, sports, and other fun activities. Creating a stress free environment away from your daily work or profession. We hope to see you on our next event.

No matter what industry you are in, or what stage of your career you are at, being an effective communicator is essential to your success. In this group we will explore ways to improve your communication skills. Whether it is doing a great sales presentation, working with difficult people, how to inspire action with your words, improving your dating success, or influencing others to your way of thinking we will explore it all. When you come to one of our events you will be experiencing world cla …

“The world we have designed and made is a result of our level of thinking, thus far what we have created has in itself created problems that we cannot solve at the same level of thinking and consciousness which has created the problems and issues.  We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein It's now 2012 the end of an Age and the Leap into a New Era. These are not times for the faint of heart. Our world and culture are undergoing the mo …

Welcome to the NEW Vancouver Business Club (VBC). Our Mission: To learn through sharing and earn through learning. Who we are: We are a club of professionals that get together to learn, to network and to talk about business and politics in Vancouver. What we do: We have interactive discussion meetings in a boardroom format about PR & Marketing. Since we know that procrastination is directly linked to loneliness, we study together instead of alone so that we can get it done. That way we can build …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

We are a lonely hybrid of hackers, software developers, entrepreneurs without the alpha male social skills to successfully manipulate corporate subordinates because only we exist and our product exists because of us. We must do everything because you are the business, the corporation, the secretary, the annoying HR, accountant, marketer, salesman, software dev, the CEO. Sorry not interested in startupdom or any of it's witchery, raising cash, venture capitalists, ben bernanke, are banned words. …