Many thanks to Investor Llew for his years of dedicated service to the novice/intermediate investor community, having founded this meetup!  I have personally observed Llew work tirelessly to promote financial astuteness and make it accessible to all.   I feel comfortable saying that his investor education program has been one of the most comprehensive and targeted programs I've ever seen.  Having gotten to know Llew over the past couple of years, I can also say unequivocally that he has proudly …

An opportunity to discuss the emerging Real-Time Internet and the effects on business. A gathering for friends of #140conf to get together and discuss issues of the day. Please contact: jeff.pulver@gmail.com if you are interested in either sponsoring or speaking at a future event. Upcoming 2011 #140conf events #140conf Small Town - http://smalltown.140conf.com - Sept 20th in Hutchinson, KS BrandsConf 2011 - http://2011.brandsconf.com - Nov 9th in NYC #140conf Tel Aviv - October 30th ========= …

Hello online marketers and product owners! Meet up with fellow practitioners of Jeff Walker's Product Launch Formula. Did you know that there is a NEW VERSION OF PLF? IT's called Product Launch Formula 3.0 Internet marketers know the legendary power of the Product Launch Formula. It's responsible for over $100 million worth of product launches in a wide range of niches. Practically every major online product launch is powered by it. Whether you are a product owner or online marketer, no matter w …

The landscape of the beauty industry is rapidly changing in the web 2.0 era. Welcome anyone interested in the beauty industry - media, brands, retailers, agencies, startups, bloggers, and broadly, anyone who’s interested in social commerce, social media, social game, social graph, real time search, web 2.0, technolgy, entrepreneurship, innovation, startup, and like to connect with other beauty-istas and technologists! The group will invite beauty industry speakers, panel and enthusiasts to disc …

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

Congratulations! Yes, you did find a treasure! If you are reading this, we know one one thing for sure - we have something in common. Let's explore... Doesn't matter if you happen to be an entrepreneur, manager, recent graduate, attorney, physician, fashion rebel, CFA, CPA, MBA, yoga teacher, a monk or whatever as long as you have the fire in you to make a difference to the community around you. The power of this group will be behind you. Read further to find out... This group is designed to o …

I’ve started Beautiful Fun because everyone likes having fun and everyone wants to be beautiful so why not combine the two of them? We’ll have get-togethers including something beautiful (lucious lips, curly curls, fabuluous feet, naturally chÍc) and/or something fun (fine wines, beautiful brunch, upgrade to a three-step, cooking class) . Yes, it’s that simple. If you’re anything like me, you scour the internet, watching videos or reading forums on anything from finding the best mascara to figur …

The Real Time Web group’s main goal is to raise awareness towards high-performance real time web applications and the Real Time Framework. The Real Time Framework — which is a multi-million dollar investment from an international company group — is comprised of a set of patented technologies that allow developers to produce real time-enabled websites quickly and easily over any real time server provider: ORTC (Open Real Time Connectivity) and xRTML (Extensible Real Time Markup Language). The do- …

Monthly beer social for geeks and non-geeks interested in the vagaries of cloud. Based in NYC. Occasionally on the road. No presentations. No formality. Real discussion. Real beer. [Credit to: Mike McCracken for photo]

The masses should have access to the tools, people, and resources to learn technology and help us continue to grow the IT sector in New York City! The biggest players in NYC tech scene come together to help shine a light on the latest goings on for both experienced and novice/aspiring techies. The best way to learn is to be interactive. Learn from the professionals, have your questions answered real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. NYC boasts the best and the brightest, th …

A group for successful men who want even greater success with women and business. Add more horse power to your career, great car and amazing apartment with tools that work. You already have the beautiful woman, but you wonder about those exotic, sultry and sexy women you encounter during your day. Or you want to know how to reach this level. For the confirmed bachelor, recently divorced man, someone fresh out of a long-term relationship, want to date interracially, date much older, date much you …

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"Hacking" is creating solutions to problems in complex systems. As it turns out, "Health" is an unbelievably complex system (the body), tangled up with an unfathomably real abstraction (the mind) and wrapped in a morass of business, government, and good intentions so labyrinthine in nature that it would make Kafka cry. If you love exploring elegant fixes to problems of mind-shattering difficulty in a collaborative environment then HealthHackingNYC is the group for you. So: Come ask questions tha …

Technology shifts and transforms, but the law often remains stagnant. This group asks a few simple questions: How can we use technological developments to address legal deficiencies? And how can lawyers start to think more like hackers? This monthly meetup challenges Legal Hackers to flesh out problems and then develop solutions through legal and extra-legal mechanisms. Join us as we tackle these tough issues and create tangible solutions. There are two requirements to be Legal Hacker: attention …

This is a group I have started to help business owners - including myself - on the Upper West Side! Let's network and grow our enterprises together. As an entrepreneur, I know the importance of constantly meeting new business people in non-competing industries. The purpose of this group is for us to meet and potentially cross-pollinate our client bases. I am a real estate broker in the neighborhood and am developing the community website referenced below. My clients are Upper West Side professio …

An Open-Source Toolkit for Creating Interactive Spaces Spacebrew is a flexible routing system between anything that can speak over Websockets; its dynamic interface allows changes and provides feedback in real-time and can be accessed both locally and online. Spacebrew makes it easy to make things talk. For more info: www.spacebrew.cc

This is a group for any professional user of Netsuite in the NYC area. Join up if you are a finance professional, sys admin, logistics, CRM, sales professional end user. Or Join up if you are curious about how this ERP and other cloud based enterprise tools can connect you to your business metrics and your customers in stronger systemic ways. We started this group so tech professionals in NYC can connect in a meaningful way. We are looking to swap ideas, scripts, code and best practice uses of t …

The goal of NJ Tech Gals is to provide an eco-system of support for gals making big waves in the NJ tech-o-sphere. We met at NJ Tech Meetup (NJ's largest technology community) and realized there is a real need for gals in tech to network and share our experiences. Soooo.... we set our first meetup to do just that! Join us to connect with other like-minded technology enthusiasts who are interested in entrepreneurship and building awesome companies. We are entrepreneurs, developers, designers, ma …

We've all heard about YCombinator accepting there first non profit startup with https://watsi.org/. We know there is so much good that can be done through these channels and so many smart people out there who are interested in this area. If you're interested in making a real impact or just want to get inspiration from the community come join to discuss how to take humanity into a better future. We are hoping to get people from the non profit community to come and talk and thus new idea's can inc …

Hackers + Designers + Entrepreneurs = Code Crew! Passionate about learning how to code, creating beautiful designs or building the prototype for your business idea and tired of doing it alone? Then this is the group for you! This is the perfect group for people serious about learning how to code through self-study using resources on the web like Code School, Codecademy, Treehouse, P2PU, Coursera, edX, Udacity, programming books, screencasts or whatever else is out there on the internet. We also …

This group is only for young people who are currently studying in New York universities and colleges. We are helping student to get knowledges for their future business via practice, seminars, workshops, and networking mixers! QuarterBiz is an educational and unique exercise for the future leaders that gives an opportunity to get an experience of company management. QuarterBiz is the first business exercise where your will manage a real company’s projects in a real time. The exercise will give …

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …