The Boston BizSpark Meetup group brings fellow Microsoft® BizSpark™startups and other startups interested in the BizSpark™program together to connect, share ideas, and grow together. We also invite and welcome startup investors to join us, make contacts, and share ideas a well. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

Originally focused on just the iPhone, the new Group hopes to embrace the iPad deeply, and considers the iPhone as just a larger installed base for universal apps that ideally use the iPad's large real-estate and 'hand-sized' muti-touch area in new and exciting ways. iPhone developers welcome, but just be aware that the new Group owner, a Xerox PARC Smalltalk old-time Dynabook dreamer, may try to convert you to the iPad. Please come and help start the new Group, even if you are in the Greater …

If you've ever wanted to confidently speak in front of an audience, and you'd like to sharpen your skills or become more confident at it, then you're going to like this. The purpose of this group is to provide a platform for you to develop your material and practice it in front of a live audience. By doing this, you will become more confident and comfortable when doing any kind of public speaking. You can be at any level of experience, and you're not limited to one type of presentation, as lo …

Going beyond traditional networking, let’s collaborate, share resources, build skills and create ways to better support each other as Entrepreneurs, Community Leaders, Creatives, Consultants, Practitioners, Angel Investors, Creatives, Change Agents and Visionaries. •For the idealists that know it can be done even better, together… •For the road weary in need of some inspiration and practical support… •For the visionaries and dreamers that have a great idea but aren’t sure how to implement it… …

Have you ever felt like you have some valuable wisdom and experience to share with the world, and you'd like to be paid for it? This group is all about learning how to package up the "good stuff" in your head and turn it into information products that make you money 24 hours a day on autopilot. Here are some of the topics we'll cover: How to determine what you already know that people are eager to pay for. The fastest way to create your first info product and start selling it for a profit. How …

Data mining! Predictive Modeling! Statistical Modeling! Predictive analysis! What does this all mean for marketers, and how can it work in your organization? This group aims to explore how data mining is leveraged by marketing departments and firms to predict behavior and optimize response and profitability.

Big Data Boston is for people with a passion for analytics & insights that are derived from the extreme information generated today. This group is for the small start up and the big company, the individual and the group, anyone in Boston that wants to make it the capital for Big Data!

The Reverse Startup is an accelerated product launch camp, driven by the open source community, focused on rapid prototyping and rapid execution around a series of proof-of-concept exercises. Encompassing a wide range of topics, this group is ideal for developers, designers, technologists, marketing professionals and entrepreneurs. The Reverse Startup is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the community and helping people actualize their dreams and professional goals. We endeavor to come tog …

BCG Networking Group is an exclusive business networking and referral group that meets once a month on the third Thursday of each month from 7:30am to 9:00am in Woburn, MA. Our membership group was founded in 2003 and is made up of local small business owners and business professionals that are committed to helping each other generate quality business leads.

The Culinary Guild of New England is a non-profit dedicated to culinary inspiration and education. Our DIY events are a fantastic way to meet folks who are enthusiastic about learning to make great food and drink. Each month, we host an event with a different business in the Greater Boston Area and learn how to make something new. These events are small and designed so you can learn in a "hands on" atmosphere and help you expand your culinary background one project at a time. From craft beer to …

This is a group for small business owners and other non-marketers who want to learn how to run successful marketing initiatives for their small businesses. We will be discussing things like how to build your marketing plan, getting your marketing foundation in place, improving your website with call-actions and contact forms, tracking and analytics and of course email, social media and direct mail marketing ideas!

Would you like more 'warm' referrals for your business? Welcome to the Charles River Professionals BNI group. We are a group of business professionals in the western suburban Boston area who get together weekly to find referrals for each other. In a enjoyable, non-competitive environment we get to know each other and learn to serve as informal sales teams for each other's businesses. If each member knows 200 people then being in our group of 25 people expands your referral pool to 5000! Currentl …

This group is dedicated to those who have a entrepreneur driven attitude to succeed and believe that one way to make an impact is to impress a footprint onto the world.

Want to meet other professional women or businessowners for monthly socializing and networking in Cambridge? At each MeetUp, we'll pair (or have triads of) a great Cambridge restaurant or retail business with a local service professional, with an emphasis on women-owned businesses. We'll hear a little bit from our featured businesses, enjoy whatever food, drink or activity is being spotlighted, and leave plenty of time for relaxed conversation. This is a great way to meet each other, learn about …

Search marketing on Google AdWords or organic SEO can be a big waste of time and money if you don’t get the details right. Search Marketing Project Night is for anyone working on a search marketing campaign who would like to compare notes. Our members are both experienced and novice search marketers who come to get answers to their questions, seek advice to specific problems and learn new strategies from their peers. Beginners are welcome. No need to work in isolation... Each month, we huddle up …

Veterans' Friends is a group where everyone is welcome to come and mingle with our finest active and veteran community. Come and talk to them, learn about their incredible experiences, sacrifices as well as discuss opportunities our veterans' friends may be aware of that can be important to our active and veterans and their families in variety of fields in professional, social, education, community, etc. This is also a way to plan fun activities in and around Harvard University, the oldest insti …

"This is a group for any size women owned business to have some fun, stay local, and share your expertise, gain referrals, and grow there businesses. I started this group to help support the local woman owned businesses and have some fun too."

We are a group of small business owners/professionals who are responsible for actively growing a revenue stream. We believe in the adage: "when you give some, you get some". We actively promote each other's businesses to our clients/customers, friends, business associates, and prospects. If you are a small business owner who is interested in being part of a community of businesses that help each other grow, check us out.

Are you planning/in the middle of/launched a Kickstarter, Indiegogo, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding or social entrepreneurship project? If yes, then come to this Meet Up. Let's share ideas, research and build a tribe of cutting edge thinkers and doers.