Welcome to the STARTUP Columbus meetup group! WHO WE ARE STARTUP Columbus is a small group of individuals with a huge entrepreneurial spirit! We share a common goal to network with other like-minded professionals. Whether seeking assistance, offering advice, learning new skills or feeding off of one another's ideas... all win-win situations. WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN Are you an individual with a new idea but not sure how to get a business started? Are you a small business owner looking to expand an …

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events will generally focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development.

Led by veteran entrepreneurs and investors, the Startup Advantage Lecture/Workshop Series is designed to stimulate your thinking and tilt the odds in your favor regarding tech-related business startups.

It's about time there was a place in Cincinnati for entrepreneurs interested in exploring innovative techniques for growing their businesses. This group will focus on the guiding principles of the Lean Start-up movement: build, measure, learn. You should join this group if you are an entrepreneur or business owner looking to launch your business or efficiently evolve your business. You probably should NOT join this group if you're seeking to sell products or services to businesses. By definition …

This is an exploratory group for people interested in learning about, participating in, or starting worker-owned and worker-managed collectives, cooperatives, businesses or organizations. Wikipedia explains worker self-management (or autogestion) as “a form of workplace decision-making in which the workers themselves agree on choices instead of an owner or traditional supervisor telling workers what to do, how to do it and where to do it... [It] is often the decision-making model used in co-ope …

We have a thriving CincyBusiness meetup for entrepreneurs that meets in Norwood, but that's a long trip in rush hour for north-Cincinnati entrepreneurs. So You should join if: you have a start-up business and want to network with folks just like you and get advice from our network of local experts. You Shouldn't join if you just want to sell stuff to the other members. In this interactive group. You pick the topics, and I recruit the experts. Let us know what you want to discuss at our meetings.

This new group is intended for Lexington, Kentucky area entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, independent contractors, and growing businesses to increase awareness of how to grow a successful small business. The Lexington Business Project is a group to help start-up and small businesses grow.  The purpose is to promote cooperation between local Lexington businesses and increase awareness of how to grow a small business.  It is difficult to grow a small business and The Lexington Business P …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning desire to succeed, to make it big, and, in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just an id …

Join together for an informal discussion of topics of interest to business. Come with something to share, whether it is a problem you're having or an idea you want to promote. We'll collect the topics, vote on them, and the vote tally will set the priority for discussion. We'll set a time limit of 7 minutes per topic. At the end of the 7 minutes, the group can vote to continue the discussion for another 7 minutes, or move on to the next topic. This is a relaxed environment and should not be …

Are you looking for alternative sources of capital to help grow your startup or small business? Are you interested in investing in something besides the stock market? Would you like to help support your local community, create jobs, and build a sustainable economy? Join our meetup. At our meetings we discuss crowdfunding and other alternative forms of financing. Businesses have the opportunity to present their concepts and get feedback from the group.

Lean startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning through fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. We are Louisville area entrepreneurs taking lean startup and customer development techniques to practice in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

Startup Grind is a global event series and community designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story 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.

PitchFeast is a bi-monthly community meal hosted by Dreamapolis, in which a $5 ticket gives you not only food and fellowship, but also the opportunity to FUNdraise for a creative, Indianapolis idea. PitchFeast welcomes all kinds of creative types for a unique crowd-sourcing competition that leverages the power of the community to fund innovative ideas. If you have a great, creative idea that you think can change the world, or if you're interested in fellowship with like-minded folks, PitchFest …

The User Enjoyment meetup is for those want to create a more enjoyable experience for their users/customer/tribe. We believe that if we focus on user enjoyment then the problems of user adoption simply go away. Join in as we discuss concepts such as user interface design, usability testing, workflow, typography, lean development, and much more. Additionally we will spend time discussing the best frameworks and plugins to quickly enhance user enjoyment (Bootstrap, Datatables.net, JQueryUI, etc). …

Fellow Entrepreneurs, Mentors, & Investors meet once a week to grab coffee and chat about startups.  Entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network, ask questions, and do deals all around the world...it's about time we Cbus hops onboard. This isn't the place to pitch; it's the place to connect, ask questions, and learn about what's happening in Columbus' local startup scene.

Our Toastmasters group has great people with various professional backgrounds, ages, and experience at public speaking/leadership. EVERYONE is welcome to attend! The meetings are very well structured and are designed to build your confidence in public speaking. There are many reasons for attending: practice speaking in front of others, learn to tell stories, improve networking skills, presenting to clients, pitching a business idea (startup), something fun to do on Thursday during lunch, or if y …

InnovateLTC & Health 2.0 have partnered to create Louisville Health 2.0. This collaboration will continue to harness the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of Louisville's Cluster of providers, suppliers and payors by building a fierce a network of innovators, educators, mentors and funding sources. This provides a rich environment for thought leadership and collaborations to ignite the creation of purposeful, disruptive and innovative solutions across the health care continuum.

Calling anyone interested in medical device or product development startups! This group is a chance to pitch your ideas for medical devices, share the vision for your startup, or inform the medical device community about your company's newest product. Come join us at our monthly meeting to get involved with great technology. You will make new friends and at our evening events, enjoy some good, local beer. Got an idea you want to share, or a half-baked prototype in your garage you'd like to show …

Calling all Tech Igniters! This group is for anyone interested in igniting more tech startups, especially those that are focused on a fast-growth Silicon Valley type of model. We want to help cultivate and launch startup ideas across the board including Internet-based ventures, mobile apps, ecommerce sites, niche social networks and online communities, digital media content and programming, social and mobile games, clean energy, warp engines, beam-me-up technology ... and much more! Let's hone …

We have a lot going on at The Brandery and want to make sure everyone has access to our calendar. We are going to post Brandery sponsored events and links to other meetup groups, happy hours and classes that host events in our space at 1411 Vine Street. Come out and join us!

A group for social entrepreneurs in Louisville and the surrounding region to come together to share ideas, learn and inspire each other.

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Bluegrass Elite Mastermind Group is the place where Kentucky’s best, brightest, and most aggressive small business owners and entrepreneurs with a love for personal growth and financial success, come together to learn, share, be accountable, and implement the most cutting edge small business strategies in the Bluegrass. Our ideas, successes, and methodologies are attributed to the principles of the Mastermind Group as originally discovered and outlined in the greatest business book of all time, …

The America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) promises to bring substantial changes to the U.S. patent system, including new mechanisms for challenging patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. One of the new mechanisms is a post-grant review proceeding (PGR), which will provide patent challengers expanded bases on which to attack patents.  Post-grant review, however, will only be available to challenge patents that issue under the AIA's new first-to-file regime. Of more immediate concern, the AIA …

Cincinnati professionals that want to network with others while playing the game of poker. This group is for games that are within 20 minutes of downtown CVG. The term "professional" is being used here to distinguish a group of people who take their life seriously AND are not JUST super serious poker nuts. Members are encouraged to attend events and invite others as well as create their own events. Hosts are allowed to charge for optional food and beverage but games are not allowed to have a ra …

Business Women Connect is an organization designed to provide resources to facilitate personal development, make real connections and encourage communication. Inspired collaborations will create innovation and success both personally & professionally!

It's a group for those looking to brainstorm, collaborate, give and get feedback on mainly entrepreneurial pursuits but also personal issues as well. Business is personal. None of us is smarter than all of us.