This group is for Long Island, NY area startup entrepreneurs who are interested in following and developing thier businesses around the principles of Lean Startup. Learn to develop a customer centered business in a disciplined, iterative, and measured way. The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries

Join us for a discussion series hosted by Kaplan Test Prep's Agile Center of Excellence focused on Agile/Lean methodologies.

We're a meetup for executives and managers that want to share stories about applying Lean Startup methodologies in the enterprise. Meetups focus on discussions and case studies from members.

Attention brewers, bakers, butchers, canners, chefs and all other food industry innovators! The goal of this group is to raise the success rate of food entrepreneurs. We want you to "fail less". Not starting a company? That's OK, this group will also equip people at large food companies with the tools to innovate. We will explore the application of Lean Startup (Eric Ries) and Customer Development (Steve Blank) methods from the tech world to food industry startups. In other words, we'll learn ho …

Enterprise and/or startup technologists, think you have what it takes to pull off the next Yammer, or the next Salesforce? If so, this group is for you! This group is organized by enterprise technologists and startup enthusiasts, with the focus of bringing together developers, domain experts and designers interested in: - developing ideas focussed on the consumerization of the enterprise - transplanting technology leveraged primarily within large enterprises and making it available to relevant c …

digitalundivided GROW NYC is a monthly meet up of digital companies founded/co-founded by black women working together to GROW their tech-based companies from Idea to MVP to Growth and then Exit. Sponsored by digitalundivided, a company that builds forward thinking initiatives that change the digital space.

So you've started a company? Maybe you're thinking about starting one? How do you grow a quality company using the existing eco-system available online and offline? Silicon Valley's Growth Hacking movement has led to impressive, exponential growth for companies like Twitter, Linked In, AirBnB and others. In this group we'll work together to grow our companies and learn the techniques of online marketing, measurement metrics and some of the tricks of the trade to grow companies online. This g …

We are surrounded by constant change. On nearly a daily basis, new ways of doing and designing appear in all creative mediums from story telling and film making to travel and the culinary arts. This Meetup is to gather together the people who think about what once was, and what it will soon be. Mobile technology and disrupted industries are leading us, will we follow? and assume we do, what will we find once we get there?

Having created a few Angel & VC funded startups and then becoming a Co-Founder of a Silicon Valley VC firm that made investments in Seed/Early/Mid stage startups like DoubleClick, RealNetworks, NetRatings, Nuance, Citysearch and many others its now time to explore new opportunities. If you have a startup or are thinking of creating one and could benefit from someone who's been there and done that (16 IPO's and 32 M&A's) we should compare notes in a group environment or one-on-one.

360i is an award-winning digital marketing agency that drives results for Fortune 500 marketers through insights, ideas and technologies. 360i helps its clients think differently about their online presence and evolve their strategies to take advantage of the new world of marketing communications – one where brands and consumers engage in interactive and multi-directional conversations. Ad Age recently named 360i the #1 Digital Agency in the U.S. in its 2013 A-List issue and named it one of the …

This is a group for anyone looking to exercise their creative business and problem solving muscles for fun and maybe, one day, a profit. I started this Meetup because I love the byproduct of a good brainstorm and was not able to find a free-flowing, fun-focused Meetup that brought people together to brainstorm in that fashion. Brainstorming works much better when done with others and the goal of this group is to bring people together who are passionate about: > innovation > coming up with new id …

This group is for anyone that likes to eat really good food surrounded by great company, and is not afraid to use your fingers to enJOY it... the only way to eat a drumstick, chicken wing, BBQ chicken, baby-back spare ribs, corn on the cob, turkey wings, pork chops.... I think you get what I am saying. For larger events and when the weather is good we will eat outdoors and come indoors for more a more intimate meal to eat around the dining room table of no more than eight folks. The folks that …

Hi Valley Moms!! This group was getting ready to close and I thought I'd jump in to see if we can get some activity up and running again!  Valley Moms was started by a mom looking for kid friendly activities and chance to get out of the house with makeup on and recharge! Personally, I'm a WAHM of a 1 1/2 year old.  Getting out of the house for me means running errands or meeting with clients.  My daughter & I just don't have much interaction with other kids and moms, unless they happen to be a c …

Learn new skills to get healthy, active and fit. We offering services that helps you to achieve better health and fitness. We are a minimalist culture, where we rely mostly on the expertise of our instructors than on overpriced gym equipment. We have found that bodyweight exercises, jump ropes, pull up bars, kettle bells and a couple of heavy bags is great old school tools for thorough strength endurance conditioning that gives your body lean muscle mass and overall improved athleticism. Here at …