A group for anyone interested in lean (startups, UX, etc) in Brighton & Sussex, whether you're an entrepreneur, wannabe-preneur (is that a thing?), designer, developer or just curious. Let's meet over a coffee beer to... Share knowledge Exchange ideas Share experiments & customer development hacks (good & bad) Discuss lean tools Make connections Follow @spookstudio or @welovelean for updates.

Steve Blanks online course for Lean Launchpad has now started. This meetup will be held weekly so that people can get together and discuss progress.

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. This group is for encouraging regular conversations for anyone interested in the application of Lean Startup Principles and the Customer Development process developed by Steve Blank and refined by Eric Ries. We bring the Kent startup community together in a variety of formats so that we can learn from each other. What works? What doesn't? Is lean startup just buzzwords? Or can it really help …

Lean Startups London is a community for new & aspiring business owners, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and mumpreneurs wanting more out of business and life. So whether you're thinking about starting your first business or are already in the process of starting a new business then you'll find the support, resources and contacts you need to achieve your business and personal objectives here. Following a new, scientific approach to starting a business in today's economy that Forbes and Harvard are c …

This is a group for entrepreneurs and professionals interested in real time metrics, lean analytics and data driven decision making. This is an open group although Geckoboard clients will have priority access to each event. The venue and dates will be communicated in advance via Meetup.com and Geckoboard mailing list. http://www.datadrivenlondon.com/ About Geckoboard Geckoboard is a realtime status board for businesses. It collects your business information from many online services, summarises …

What is Converge? Converge+UK is a series of events to foster communication, collaboration and creation at the intersection of Design, Business & Technology. The concept was co-founded by a diverse group of London professionals working in lot’s of different disciplines with a common interest in entrepreneurship including Klaus Bravenboer, Peter Thomson, Tim McCready, David Mclaire, Sallie Bale, and Dan George. We had all separately been going to lots of events related to our respective industrie …

Agile:MK is a special interest group for professionals from the Milton Keynes area who are interested in learning, sharing and encouraging the use of agile methodologies such as Scrum, Extreme Programming & Lean Thinking.

The London Limited WIP Society is the home of the  community embracing Kanban for evolutionary change and continuous improvement. "Limited WIP" refers to limiting the amount of work in process -- a core practice in lean pull systems such as kanban. This is where our community can learn and share learning and why things work or don't work Helps stay connected with other practitioners and stay informed about community events.

UNICOM Seminars has set up DevOps London Group so that people working and interacting between development and operational activities within an enterprise can meet, share ideas, discuss technical problems and make valuable business contacts.

If you are running a django website, or you are an experienced django developer, or you are a n00b django developer, or you know your kun-fu about CSS/HTML5 and all the cool stuff happening this group is for you. Come along also if you do ruby, 'cause at the end of the day is just all about the MVC

Informal meetup to share knowledge and stories from our own experience, to provide peer support, and to discuss anything related to agile, design and UX. We are part of the agile ux retreat family. Developers, (UX) designers, scrum masters, agile coaches, product owners, project managers, ... all welcome.

A group for the new breed of entrepreneur that wants to realise their dreams and do things differently. We're all about startups that put people first and measure success in happiness, as well as profits. We believe happy teams, storytelling and customer experience are key to delivering on vision. The future belongs to organisations that live their values, love their customers, have a clear purpose and focus on a strong company culture. Think Southwest Airlines over Ryanair. Agree? Then come joi …

Welcome! Getting a startup off the ground can be tough! Particularly if you're doing it on your own but it needn't be an isolating experience. We've found business networking an invaluable experience for startups but we've sometimes felt it can be a little cold and impersonal - a never ending round of handshakes, smiles and business card exchanges, with everyone just looking to sell to each other, losing sight of the huge array of other benefits that can be derived from meeting people who are a …

Dedicated to start-ups, the place to find the information you need to create and run a start-up in Swindon. Do you have an idea to start a business? Had a business for longer but are interested in starting up a new project within that business? What to chat about your idea with like minded people? Just want to see what business's are bubbling under in Swindon. - So, who's this group for? Anyone thinking of starting or at the head of a current business in and around Swindon. Come along to the in …

Digibury is the Digital Canterbury meet-up hosted by Deeson Online. Anybody interested in digital, geeking out and technology. We have short talks, demos and drinks about pretty much anything. This year we've had talks about robots, geofencing, stop-motion animation, lean start-ups, perfume, evil social media, web apps, gaming tech, emulators, Arduinos and more. If it involves some kind of technology, and you think about it a lot, then we're up for including it. Full schedule at http://deeson-on …

If you are starting a new business whether it is a social enterprise, tech or hi tech, the next facebook or something more modest you want to join us!  We are a group by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs specialising in starting up businesses. If you would like to help out let us know If you want to apply for Programme entry please check out the eligibility. Accelerace runs free and paid for sessions (to cover costs).  The free sessions are in the evening and typcially follow a case study, present …

Inspired by 500startup's unsexy conference, http://unsexy.co/, we want to bring all the unsexy startups together. Well, if you are building another Instagram or Facebook, this is probably not a right meet up for you. If you are interested in "making money" much more than a TechCrunch coverage, you find yourself a second home! "Unsexy startups" in SMB/Enterprise, financial services, communications, email, data, infrastructure, and more. Let's mingle. Format: We are thinking bring (1)two speakers …