At Startup Founder 101, aspiring and early-stage startup founders meet once a month to hear candid talks by successful local entrepreneurs. Learn the best practices, strategies, and mistakes to avoid from those who have been there, done that. Then, if you’d like, you can share your ideas and plans in a relaxed setting to get personal and professional feedback. The first Meetup will be announced shortly - join our group to get updated!

The UX Startup is a series of design workshops and demos for startups and entrepreneurs who need to boost their product creation process with user experience design. UX-empowered products are successful products. The UX Startup will have 4 types of meetup: 1. Monthly workshops We’ll focus on one UX tool or method and give you enough hands-on practice to go back to your startup or side project with a new skill. 2. Demo Days / Case Studies: This ‘show and tell’ event will be a forum for startups t …

Are you a founder of an early-stage company based in or around Portland, Oregon? This group is all about peer mentoring for founders and we're running our fifth annual Launch Pad event - completely free, full weekend of education and networking with other startup founders. Check out www.pdxlaunchpad.com for more information.

This is a group for anyone interested in startups, technology, entrepreneurship, engineering, etc.

Meet some of the most interesting startups in Portland. And grab a bite to eat with your peers. All for free. Interested in participating? Sign up to host Portland Lunch 2.0. Interested in suggesting a venue? Please use Meetup to do so. Coordinated by Silicon Florist and PIE. Brought to you by the awesome Portland, Oregon, startup scene.

Continuous Web- Portland is a community for startup entrepreneurs and tech professionals building sustainable web products and businesses.  Members connect and learn from professionals what it takes to start, build, and lead a great web business.  For the startup at all stages: idea, seed capital, angel/venture funded, profitability and beyond.

Obsessed with exercise and startups? Great, let's kill two birds with one stone and sweat while we network. Ideally, we'll morph into a sweet support group for the uber-motivated entrepreneurial athletic set! I'd love to talk shop while climbing mountains, or at least while cycling, hiking, kayaking, etc.  But I haven't had time for any epic adventures lately. If you'd like to organize - even intermittently - holler! ANY MEMBER can suggest a meetup activity!  You are all organizers: do it! E- …

A group of entrepreneurs who meet regularly to stimulate the free flow of entrepreneurial ideas and share real life experience and wisdom. Some of our events will be sponsored and some will promote specific programs.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning drive to succeed,  to make it big in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.  Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, fin …

Demolicious shines a well-deserved spotlight on some of the best work from Portland's web and mobile tech communities. Each event includes about five demos on the stage of the Mission Theater. Judges provide feedback, critique and questions. Then the attendees determine a winner. Previous presenters have gone on to raise money from PIE, the Portland Seed Fund and other investors.

Without continuous innovation, your business will die. As a founder, CEO, or innovator, you're always trying to find and execute on the strategies, principles, and processes that can give you an edge over the competition. The goal of this group is to give some structure and accountability to that education. Every month, we pick a new online course/book/text book/video/lecture, learn the materials, systematically test them within our own businesses, and share the results. We'll cover topics in bo …

This group is for starters in Portland who wish to create software businesses that provide them a very comfortable lifestyle while contributing to the world around them. If you are building (or considering building) Software as a Service applications that require no co-founders or any outside investment, this group is for you.

At PDX Tech+Pong, we believe that the conversations sparked over a (sometimes) friendly game of ping- pong can lead to amazing things. We want to be a catalyst in the PDX tech community that facilitates these conversations within a social environment. Welcome to PDX Tech+Pong.

Open Capitalist - Portland is a spin-off from opencapitalist.org. We are starting a well outfitted community workshop in Portland, Oregon to facilitate entrepreneurs. Need shop space to move your project forward? Need specialized engineering help? Want to help others build small businesses? Come join us! We are initially focusing on metal working, electronics, plastics, and composites. These require specialized tools and we are going to provide them and the support you need to be success …

A closely knit community of Chief Technology Officers, empowering each other to grow in their astute leadership of Portland's hottest Internet companies.

Let's get together once a month and talk about all thing crowdfunding. Oh, and there will be beer, plenty of beer!

Oregon's premier resource for technology connection, advocacy, education, and innovation.

This Group is designed to fuse established and new businesses together to share opportunities, expereinces, strategies and successes all while networking in a fun and social way.

Blog: http://thingtuesday.com/ We decided to create our own open meetup to discuss and learn about the Internet of Things. We encourage the curious, the hackers the entrepreneurs and the executives who are engaging in this area to come join us to listen to talks, share in conversation and networking. Each session we will have talks, "show and tells "and space to hack and network with others. Modelled on two phenomenally influential and successful groups, Mobile Monday and the catalytic Silicon V …

Meet other iOS iPhone iPad Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups from the Portland area to discuss how to build and promote iPhone based apps and businesses. This is an open meetup. You are welcome to participate, or present your iPhone app, ideas, or solutions.

To bring together business people of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, and networking support

Are you interested in DIY biology/biohacking/biotech and would love to join a community of like-minded members who discuss these topics and collaborate on projects in the general Portland area? If so, you are in the right place. I foresee a growing and evolving 'DIYBio' group that can get together to talk DIY biology, develop projects, build/hack lab equipment, and educate each other in an open, facilitative environment. Young or old, your imagination matters. With enough momentum, I would like …

Would your Business benefit from more referrals??? This is our bi-weekly meeting to meet new contacts, share information about ourselves and get to know one another better. No-host lunch. Address : SW Portland @ Joe's Burgers and Bar. 4439 SW Beaverton Hillsdale hwy Portland,OR. 97221 Time: 12 noon Dates: February 25th; March 11th and 25th; April 8th and 22nd; May 6th and 20th and.............................................