The trend of Chinese businesses, investors, students, and families choosing the US is accelerating.  Fortunately for the US, this new wave of Chinese are brainy, hard working, and entrepreneurial.  While large Chinese MNCs represent an elusive and somewhat hazy business opportunity for US investors, Chinese start-ups and early stage companies are where opportunity is likely to be found. Chinese Join us if you are interested in meeting or investing in Chinese entrepreneurs in the US. Conversely, …

This group is designed to enlist inspired, experienced, highly motivated, entrepreneurial and concerned individuals in a community to identify their hidden talents, passion and desire to put to work and start a business addressing community needs. This is a startup initiative for launching businesses by residents for community and supported by a community network for success of its residents. It is a program to launch a group of startups with initial education using special methods and mentors f …

Athletepreneur's goal is to create network of current and former (collegiate &professional athletes) who will be part of a trusted community of entrepreneurs that creates dynamic energy and value for members geared towards entrepreneurship. We want to bridge the gap between athletics & entrepreneurship by channeling athletes competitive drive and championesque mentality into model entrepreneurs. All former professional and collegiate athletes are welcome to join and in addition we are open to so …

VentureSHOT Entrepreneur Collaboration Community brings together extraordinary entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses and enhance their levels of success. This community was launched and is run BY Entrepreneurs...FOR Entrepreneurs. We REALLY know the issues entrepreneurs face in growing their businesses and our vision is to help hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve greater success through collaboration with their peers, mentors and unique, powerful collaboration sessions. Click Here For P …

Founder Sensei is a voluntary mentorship program for founders who want to improve themselves and the businesses they create. Mentors act as facilitators with small groups of founding teams to help them through their journey to startup success. By combining the Art of Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Engineering together with fellowship and mentor support, entrepreneurs can discover what is missing in their startups and how they can take their businesses to the next level.

We are a Professional South Suburban Convention Center for Entrepreneurs. The 40,000 sq ft Convention Center is for established businesses searching for creative ways to market their merchandise and services. Together we are having creative and informative business events to produce community awareness. The 10,000 sq ft Entertainment Center will be use for Live Bands, Plays, Training, seminars, Fashion Shows, Networking events, and small Business development programs.  Members can also reserve o …

The main objective of this meet up would be to facilitate practical discussions, collaboration, and experimentation focused on creating a more sustainable food system. This group's primary focus would be to decode, re-equilibrate, practically redesign, and democratize our food supply. Anyone interested in food, sustainable food businesses, micro-food production, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, environmental issues, energy, water resources, population dynamics, disruptive innovation, …

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 …

The intent of this group is to encourage and develop relationships between small business owners and suitable investors. Monthly meetings will be focused on short presentations that provide timely and applicable lessons for starting, developing, and funding new business concepts. This group is solutions-oriented, and it embraces a no-nonsense approach towards immediate and actionable relationships, partnerships, and conceptual fruition.

Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is a nonprofit association of individuals and organizations building effective, more sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies. SEA has emerged as the common ground for practitioners, lenders, investors, grant makers, consultants, researchers, and educators who recognize the increasing impact of social enterprise. SEA provides its members with current information, tools, and other resources that address the unique needs of social enterprises. Socia …

Startup Bootcamp is a Chicago-based community dedicated to facilitating the initial phases associated with technology-related startups. In particular, it is a community of startups that can support each other throughout the so-called "Valley of Death" period. Startup Bootcamp is entirely free, barring the cost of any meeting facilities or other logistical costs (which are split up amongst the attendees). The goal of the community is to provide each other with support in order to facilitate the …

Lafayettech is a startup community of greater Lafayette, Indiana helping entrepreneurs take the next step. We are currently restructuring LT to better serve our community. While we don’t have everything ready quite yet, it doesn’t mean we aren’t actively supporting startups in our community. Visit our website Lafayettech.org, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and follow us on Google+

Start-up West Michigan is a community of innovators, developers, investors, professionals, and business leaders who have a passion for entrepreneurship and new technology. We seek to further cultivate the West Michigan start-up culture by providing our members a place to connect and learn about all of the exciting opportunities for entrepreneurs in our region.

Women Entrepreneurs Unite! Because you don't have to do it alone. Whether you're starting your business or a seasoned business owner, we All have something to contribute! Let's build this network together. Consistency is key. We'll have regular monthly networking sessions, special events, and expos designed for the women entrepreneur. We welcome all business women to join.

Let's get together to share referral's over breakfast every two weeks in beautiful downtown Naperville. Looking for Professionals and small-business owners to network and share experiences, referrals, and advertise your business.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Chicago Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Chicago serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complements you. …

This group was created to bring together a diverse group of business professionals with a goal of helping each member to improve critical business and networking skills. As a basic outline for our meetings, the intent is to provide regular attending members with the following.. 1) Professional advice and speaking engagements from experts in their field (e.g. - Sales, Networking, Leadership, Presentations, LinkedIn and many more). Each month a new speaker will help us to further refine the skil …

Verge is for West Lafayette and Lafayette entrepreneurs, software developers, and business investors who are making things happen. West Lafayette and Lafayette, Indiana are packed with sharp people who build awesome stuff. This is for current web entrepreneurs as well as Purdue students looking to launch their first startup or write a new application (active business investors are also very welcome to join). If you're turned on by things like web apps, lean startup, ruby on rails, python, php, o …

Are you tired of traveling across the state line to meet like minded positive professionals?  Well, this group was created as an outlet for positive minded professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs in Northwest Indiana to come together and network with other like minded individuals that reside in Northwest Indiana. The purpose of this group is to build networks with other positive minded professionals in Northwest Indiana. Our goal is to have events that are benef …

We open the Cages and let the entreprenuers out to share ideas, resources, and connect with investors, community leaders, and thought leaders. Come out to our next meetup and get to know the group :)

Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast. * Compare Notes * Exchange Ideas * Learn from Others’ Mistakes * Brainstorm with Peers * Find Partners * Small Group Atmosphere * Serious Conversation Bootstrappers Breakfasts® are for founders of early stage technology startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. These breakfasts were designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and leverage thoughts with other folks who are serious …

We are a group of first or second generation Business Owners, Executives and Entrepreneurs that meet to discuss topics relating to starting up a business, scaling, selling, and planning for our exit from our business. We meet once a month. Each meeting has a presenter on a topic that Entrepreneurs want to learn more about. Some of our Past Topics include: Selection of a Business Entity, Acquiring Venture Capital, What to know about your Employment Agreements? Top Ten thing to know in being Acqui …

Inspire Startups gives Chicago's top early-stage startups the opportunity to showcase their solutions to 50+ techies and investors. This event combines the best of tech expos and networking in an intimate setting topped off with a pitch competition. Don't miss the opportunity to mingle with Chicago's elite startup community.

Are you looking for an ELITE GROUP of Entrepreneurs to create an Alliance with to Network, Mastermind, Partner, Learn and Grow with? If you said YES...then you MUST Join... The YES Mastermind Forum Chapter We are a group of entrepreneurs, who are young and young at heart, who would like to help each other succeed in the field of entrepreneurship. Our Mission is to empower people to take ownership of their financial futures and turn their passions and hobbies into a self-perpetuating business. T …

OBJECTIVE This group is designed for exclusive group of women that is focused on learning about different areas/professions today women entrepreneurs have been progressing in with full confidence and achieving new highs every day. The group facilitates building, encouraging, motivating and inspiring women to go after their dreams and to pursue whatever passions they may have. We pride ourselves on Faith, Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Structure, Excellence, Loyalty and Teamwork. We call …

This is a group for startups, freelancers, developers, entrepreneurs, remote worker, work-from-home professionals (and everyone in between) living on the north side of Chicago, who want to work and network in a coworking environment that will stimulate, inspire and support. If you don't want to schlep downtown to a coworking space and are looking for a community of like-mined, supportive folks in the Wicker Park, Bucktown, Ukranian Village, Lakeview, Logan Square (and elsewhere!), then please jo …

Join us if: - You want to learn more about how to create or manage a conscious business - You are an entrepreneur or business leader who cares about making a difference - You believe that purpose, process and people come before profit - but create more profitable businesses in the end - You want to grow, learn and meet other like-minded leaders Welcome! This group is for you. We have created this meetup group to forward the ideas and actions of conscious capitalism in the Chicagoland area. Whi …

This group is open to anyone who is interested in using technology to fuel social good. During these meetups we'll talk about how to use technology to bring an idea to life, and bring in Chicago nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to help guide the discussion. We'll focus on how to build web and mobile solutions to solve real-world problems such as data management, registrations, transactions, and community building, among others.