Small business owners and those interested in starting a business this is where we can connect. Learn about business programs, seminars, conferences and other related activities to start, build and or expand your business in the heart of the city. We meet to encourage, inform, and instill pride in the small business communities that serve Los Angeles. If you're an entrepreneur you are unique and if you are interested in starting your business, meet up with us and discover the resources available …

Would you like to know what you don't know about starting a business that can cause you to fail before you even sell your first product or offer your first service??? Would you like to know how to get your business unstuck and take it to the next level??? Do you know the difference between owning a job and owning a business??? Would you like to know how to keep your business from becoming the next business failure??? Are you confident that your business will survive the next economic downturn??? …

"Ideas without relationships is just academics. Relationships without ideas is just networking." - Phil Lader TechChic is a community inspired by Benjamin Franklin's coffeehouse. The London coffeehouse that Franklin founded was a place where great people congregated to discuss profound ideas that led to breakthrough innovation. TechChic replicates that concept in a modern day context for the tech industry, starting first with Los Angeles. The founders, Melissa Lim and Sandra Pan, are tech enthus …

Dear Veggie Fonders, It has been over eleven years since I became a vegetarian. Little did I know that the decision I made to become a veggie back then would change my life for a wonderful start. I did it solely was out of respect for all living beings. And guess what? This veggie diet has completely cured my stomachache occurred since I was a teenager, decreased my doctor visits drastically, and made me a healthy and energetic person that my friends call me an energetic bunny!   As a result, I …

Our goal is to help our member's grow their annual revenues by $350,000,000 by December 2016. Quantum Leap is here to help start-ups and small businesses succeed in a supportive peer-based community atmosphere. Quantum Leap is on a mission to help small businesses grow and we're building a community of business owners who have built companies from startup to generating more than $10,000,000 in annual revenues to come together and help each other grow their businesses. Quantum Leap provides small …

Welcome to the I Liq Chuan Los Angeles practice group. I Liq Chuan, Martial Art of Awareness, is an art of cultivating consciousness based on Tai Chi and Zen principles. Students of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to join. In practice sessions we are going to: LEARN - learn principles and philosophy of the art - start with some chi gong to warm up the body and let energy flow - do solo practice learning to unify one's body and increase body awareness - learn I Liq Chuan 21 form to feel t …

Putting the trans in media since December 2009, this group hosts monthly meetups and ad hoc events to bring together people in Los Angeles interested in transmedia storytelling. The group's goal is to connect people, curate experiences/ideas/projects, and share our activities with others around the world. To help with group logistics and communications, we have a TLA website: http://transmediala.net As of January 2010 we started using our official Transmedia Los Angeles Meetup Group (now with 25 …

This group starts out of my desire to share opportunities to work out while dancing with people who enjoy going to events, dance classes and make out of any special occasion an opportunity to dance. I am a Dance/Fitness instructor looking to get people motivated and keep them motivated about their physical and mental health. I would like to open this group to people of all races, shapes, ages, gender, sexual orientation and creed. My objective is that, while we dance for hours non-stop, share la …

MRREN opened doors in 1979. Today it is comprised of over 50,000 members nationwide, most of whom have purchased investment property through our education and hands-on mentoring. Thanks to our size, there is no fee or obligation whatsoever to be a member. We make our money from the seller, not the buyer. You won't find expensive book and tape packages at MRREN. We walk the walk and have teams scouting the entire country for the absolute best real estate deals, and we bring them straight to you. …

This group is a newly formed hub for the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality, in particular a new spiritual teaching called Evolutionary Enlightenment, recently synthesized into a book of the same name written by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Our most basic goal is to host regular gatherings and events that convey the essential ideas of this new spiritual perspective. Towards this, the core of our meetup will focus on discussions using excerpts or chapters from the book as starting poi …

The Business Blogging Academy - Los Angeles is where small business owners, local business SEOs, internet marketers, Social Media players, entrepreneurs, start uppers, bloggers and writers gather...online and in person to learn and do things right. Ask your self these questions - How much would you pay for 1. A website evaluation from an SEO, traffic and business blogging expert? Read what people pay me for website evaluations. (The earlier you get in the higher the likelihood of getting an eval …

"THE PICKUP GAME OF ALL PICKUP GAMES." Introduction There is always a game every Saturday even if you see only 1 RSVP on the list. There are "regular offline players" who are not part of this online meetup group. For any given Saturday, we can add about 4 to 10 "offline regular players" to the RSVP list. A $1 donation to the group would be appreciated at the pickup location. This is not a mandatory fee. The collected money will be used primarily towards maintaining this site and new balls when n …

Blender is a 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling and visual effects. This group is for anyone interested in Blender, from novice to guru. We will meet and share projects as an extension of the online Blender community, build open source projects, and invite speakers from the national and international community. I started this group as a way for Blenderheads to meet and collaborate on film and animation projects in the Los Angeles area.

NO stuffed-shirt old codgers peddling their books and tapes that promise you’ll become the next Real Estate Millionaire if you buy them here. NO cheesy, yellow ‘WE BUY HOUSES’ bandit signs endorsed here.

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What you WILL find here are straightforward, No BS ways to make money in Real Estate. Taught buy people who are in the trenches every day, doing it the RIGHT way! Founder, Chris Goff, wanted to create a REI Club where fel …

We offer you more than networking and referrals because we are a “Business Development” group. Our program offers you more value for your time, money and resources because in addition to gaining valuable and credible business contacts that will help you to weather the storm of the current economy, we also help you to become a stronger business owner. Most importantly, we help you to create targeted co-marketing bonds with other members that will work to drive new customers to your business. We d …

We are a group of web designers and developers in the Los Angeles area who use and love the CMS ExpressionEngine. This group was started as an effort to become a valuable resource for both current and future area users of ExpressionEngine. ExpressionEngine is a powerful and extensible CMS that has an amazing developer community behind it. We want to share best practices, tips and tricks, and provide a long-lasting local resource for learning and community here in the Los Angeles area. Sharing co …

Help us kick-start the community in style with engaging customer case studies, networking with like-minded developers and MuleSoft experts, free beer, and of course that famous LA sunshine. This meetup is a great opportunity to get your questions answered, learn and share best practices, and hear real-life product applications from mule users.

The purpose of this group: This group is formed to help inform others about taking the mystery out of the growing ET presence and ever increasing UFO’s, knowing that if they were meant to cause any harm, they would have done so long ago.  On the contrary, our space brothers are longing to assist mankind from the daily struggle with limitation in the physical octave.   They are more than willing to help us prevent any further damage and destruction to planet Earth.  Their far more advanced techn …

Just for Coaches & Holistic Practitioners... "Join Us and You’ll Discover Some of the Best Kept Secrets to Attract More Clients and Get More Referrals… All While Making New Connections and Collaborating in a Conscious Community Created Just for YOU" You started your work to make a difference in your clients’ lives. But you may not have realized that having a steady stream of new clients would be necessary for you and your practice to thrive. You may have even tried to go to networking events i …

New amazing "Warrior Girls" style boot camp for girls,women, ladies, mamas, and chicks of any shape, size,and age starts this Wednesday at 7pm. This is going to be absolutely transformational - for both your body and your soul. Get serious and join us for an exciting hour of heart pounding fun!

Singles Meet Japan Lady Meetup : Description about Our Meetup Group. Hello Everyone. My name is Naoko. I am the founder of MeetJapanlady.com that provides meeting opportunities for professional single American men and Japanese women and whose ultimate goal is creating happy marriages. I started Meet Japan Lady (MJL) Meetup groups in Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Tokyo to create more opportunities for our members to meet in person in a fun and safe setting. Our MJL Meetup groups are based on http …

This is a group for Asians who live in or near downtown, or generally just loves Downtown L.A. It's a group for those who love exploring, discovering and trying new restaurants, bars, lounges, shops, cafes and urban activities. I started this group to meet my fellow Asian downtowners and to make new friends who are also urban enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring the city and all it has to offer with everybody. We could also take turns hosting game nights or movie nights at each other's down …

These Live Optimization Workshops are for small businesses. We focus all of our experimentation on optimizing online marketing communications- improving email marketing, improving subscription, lead generation, and ecommerce offers while providing: * Access to a team of industry experts who have collaboratively conducted thousands of online tests and understand internet marketing * Knowledge and understanding through a thorough analysis of the focus area * Strategically planned and executed …

Walk for Children is a 5k (3.1 mile) walk that is designed to raise funds for children with medical needs in honor of nurses. Our walk is under the umbrella of the “Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times Walk for Kids." Registration: 7am -- Walk Starts: 8am Look for the Camp Ronald McDonald Walk for Kids signs and find the Barco’s Nightingales Booth. Our Goal this year is to be able to: • Send 50 kids with cancer to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times® • Donate 200 surgeries to ReSurge for kid …

This is a group for parents living in Downtown Los Angeles. We can be flexible on the meet-up times due to variation in schedules. I want to start a supportive network for Downtown and surrounding area (Huntington Park, Echo Park, Los Feliz...) parents.