West Valley College is offering programs and events around promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship.  Programs include classes designed to help first time entrepreneurs start new businesses, advanced courses to help existing businesses grow and succeed, and networking events to help small business owners develop connections and relationships to foster success. The courses are taught by seasoned entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley startup veterans, and specialists in a variety of areas including …

Did you know that the average knowledge retention rate six weeks after a typical business seminar is only 10%?! This is not a seminar. This is group coaching and brain storming on YOUR business issues. You will get personalized action plans to immediately implement in your business every week we meet. Other benefits of this meetup are: -Meeting other local Business Owners. -Developing deep relationships with other members that will produce new customers -Get advice and avoid costly mistake …

If you've been looking for a group of entrepreneurs dedicated to working on and growing their businesses, you've come to the right place! If you enjoy bouncing ideas around with other business owners in a structured group, this is the meetup for you! The Entrepreneurial Mastery meetup is built around small, structured mastermind groups studying together and sharing ideas and experiences to help each other achieve greater business success.

… This meetup is geared towards small business owners, self-employed professionals, and aspiring entrepeneurs who want to maximize ROI for their advertising dollars.

Peninsula Business Network (PBN) is a business networking group established in the late 1990's. We are a group dedicated to helping each other in our individual business endeavors. Most members are small business owners who need a salesforce of 30 plus individuals who can promote their product and services for them. We meet weekly for one hour on Wednesday mornings from 7:30 to 8:30 am @ The Waterfront Restaurant, Uccelli Blvd, Redwood City. We are a well established business networking group a …

Come meet other Silicon Valley small business owners! Come to a meetup to: a. Network with other businesses & form strategic connections, b. Find new customers, c. Share your business concerns d. Hear how others have overcome similar hurdles, e. Receive and share tips for analyzing, managing & growing your business, and f. Access small business support services.

… Our members are South Bay Business Owners, Sales Representatives and Entrepreneur. We have 15 to 20 people attend each week and two speaker who educate us on their business. We invite you to visit us for a meeting or two. The coffee is on us.

Entrepreneurs, you may be in business for yourself but you are not by yourself! This meetup is a place for business owners and entrepreneurs to meet and exchange ideas. The main focus of this group is to assist Small Business owners in growing their businesses by networking and exchanging information. Enabling our members to grow, expand and flourish in their endeavors. This meetup is being brought to you by Tamian Associates, a firm that is committed to your successful business. We do Business …

… The Forum will meet monthly and provide individuals and small business owners who are curious about incresing their businss results, and their client base, with strategies and inspiration to bring about clarity concerning daily activities and in forward thinking. Joining this group, designers will have a forum for online and in person group discussion to address business challenges and foster business growth.  We encourage an atmosphere of friendship and fun, along with the educational and reso …

Meet other locals from all Industries to discuss your Business Ideas and Strategies. Gather to discuss current events, share experiences, and to network with other people interested in Business. This is a casual but professional atmosphere with a planned agenda. Networking with like minded professional in a supportive group. Join our Linkedin site too! http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1856388&trk=hb_sid...

Social Media is not just a fad, It is here to stay!   The group is designed to help small business owners who are unfamiliar with social media and how it can be utilized to increase sales, extend you brand and better communicate with your clients and customers. Most people when they think of Social Media think of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn adn YouTube, but it is also much more than that, It is utilizing the interactive features of what is called "Web 2.0 We will be sharing business ideas, m …

Ever Wonder why some people make it and others don’t? Are you in a Network Marketing or MLM business who hasn’t been trained, coached or mentored, and just don’t know where to turn for help or for that matter, how to build your business the Right way? We will host generic trainings that are designed to improve your skills no matter what Network Marketing or MLM business you promote. During the training, No specific products or services will be mentioned. Out of this business training, w …

This meetup group is for those that want ideas and strategies for driving success of their business; whether small entrepreneurial ventures or big corporations. Share ideas and learn from peers on effective (and not so effective) techniques for traditional and Internet marketing, business development and sales. Also hear directly from celebrated authors and receive a free copy of their book (when applicable).

… (Note: This group is generally open to all small business owners who wish to network and socialize with other small [and/or home-based] business professionals, whether or not you are a WAHP. The more members, the merrier. We believe that this will help create opportunity to expand our businesses together by providing additional level of referrals and resources.)

Core group has worked with technology startups for over 18 years. How to take a social media or technology start-up company from idea concept through funding and global market. Whether family shoestring budget, angel investment or VC venture capital the principles for success remain the same. With the warp-speed changes in digital, mobile and hyper-localized marketing as well as consumer savvy rewards based technologies emerging every view days we would love to meet and chat about some basic …

Alibaba.com meetup group is designed for local business people and entrepreneurs to meet in person and share best practices of international business, product sourcing and cost efficient procurement. The mission of this fun and casual group is to support the local entrepreneur community and to make it easy to do business anywhere.