A fresh Start. The IWAA purpose is to positively stimulate the mature person experiencing any of the many life transitions by following the IWAA Achievement Principles. These principles have been carefully crafted and researched for effectiveness and creativity. This involves identifying and using your strengths and other related untapped resources such as your natural environment, connections, personal skills, and identifying untapped opportunities. We will empower you by linking you to resourc …

Mission statement: Improving the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. The name, Soroptimist, means "best for women," and that's what the organization strives to achieve. Soroptimists are women at their best, working to help other women to be their best. Our Los Gatos Saratoga club works with the community to create events to raise money for the charities that Soroptimist International supports at a local level including House on the Hill, Career Closet and oth …

Welcome to the Small Business Lunch-Time Networking! If you owned a big corporation like Google or GE you would have your own HR department, Marketing and Sales department, Legal department and so forth. As a Small Business, competing with the giants, we are offen stragling with lack of resources. We cannot afford to hire an HR director, Markeing expert, or a Lawyer to work for us. At this luncheon we want to introduce you to a program which will allow you access to all the resources you need fo …

The mission of Abundance, Wealth, Health and Happiness is to provide a forum for people to create abundance and prosperity for themselves and others in their thoughts, words, and actions.  Members are encouraged to network and share their businesses and projects, and show how they make a difference in our community. "I turn the great energy of my thinking upon ideas of plenty."  Affirmation by Catherine Ponder from The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity If we follow this basic principle and turn our e …

The Electric Vehicle Entrepeneurs of Silicon Valley (EVE) is a non-profit group of peer entrepreneurs and innovators in Silicon Valley who want to participate in the design, development, and marketing of electric vehicles and electric vehicle technologies. Anyone who is interested in creating, recruiting, or working of hot new electric vehicle startups in Silicon Valley should join this group. Also, any electric vehicle (EV) car owner in Silicon Valley is welcome to join and share ideas about …

The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

Where else but the Bay Area could you start a moms group full of engineers, programmers and techies of all stripes? This won't be your typical mommies group! We will promote family friendly tech events and other ideas for sharing technology with your kids or getting away for a while with other tech oriented women. Events we promote may be all over the Bay Area, but many of them will be worth the drive.

BNI offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Being a member of BNI is like having sales people working for you every day who market your product or service.  BNI's sole purpose is to provide a structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals.  If referrals are an important part of your business, then BNI is the organization for you.

In the business world, sometimes it seems to be all about money and bottom line. Yet I found that many woman entrepreneurs or leaders are called to start their business or get into a particular field out of purpose, passion and a sense to make a big impact to our communities. This group is for women business owners and leaders to come together for the purpose of sharing ideas and friendship, continued learning, inspiration, and great conversation. Our meeting provides friendly and non-competitiv …

We understand that the one of the best ways to improve our own business is to utilize the network of people that other members have built. If one person can reach 100 people, then a group of 20 people can reach 2000 and that is very powerful. There have been many fruitful relationships built in our group that will last the rest of our professional lives, and we are looking for more people that share our enthusiasm. This and other Business related Meetups are dedicated to working with small, eme …

This meetup is for Entrepreneurs and like minded people to come together, network, attend TiE Silicon Valley's Events,  Fostering Entrepreneurship and create long lasting relationships.

Partner4Leads' "South Bay Referral Network" is accepting new members. Our mission is to promote the products and services represented by our members, pass qualified business referrals and sale leads, motivate professional growth, and provide information regarding the business community in a comfortable, relaxed environment! As a team, we teach each other how to talk about each business and turn that knowledge into qualified leads. We understand that the one of the best ways to improve our own bu …

You have come to the right place if one or more of these statements sound familiar: - You are a professional women in a corporate job aching for more fulfilling, inspiring work. - You secretly dream of being an artist, writer, photographer, or fill-in-the-blank, but have no idea how to make it happen. - You’ve given all your time, talent, and energy to everyone else in your life and feel it’s time to give attention to your own dreams and aspirations. The mission of the ‘Shifting Gears’ women’s m …

We are a business support group that brings together individuals from different professions and industries. We are focused on exchanging referrals within the group, generating leads for group members, building professional alliances, developing long lasting friendships, and the growth of our businesses. The members of our group are not only concerned with the growth of their own businesses, but we are also committed to helping our fellow group members become successful. Our group is speci …

Whether you're an employee, entrepreneur or future entrepreneur, this group is here to support you in living your life purpose. We welcome individuals who are passionate about doing what you love, even if you don't know what that is yet!  This group is for connecting with like-minded souls to support each other in our journeys of personal growth, self-discovery and adventure. It's about breaking free from doing what's expected of you and instead, being free to be yourself and be wildly successfu …

We are group who study the marketing strategies of Pinterest as well as other social media and provide tools and support for businesses using Pinterest for business.

A meetup group for people who want network and showcase their products and services with others. We meet on Tuesdays, at Pizza Party. 3581 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, Ca 95051 408-248-5680 - we'd love to have you join us! Bring your appetite for a delicious pizza, salad & soft drinks for only $10 per person. If you'd like to do and expo and have vendors at our location, email me, Lidia Blair at lblair@sbcglobal.net. Vendor tables are $10 and your lunch is FREE! If you would like to be a guest sp …

I think joining a group can help with individual accountability, productivity and support. Are you a writer, an entrepreneur, a designer? What do you like/need to do on your laptop? Myself, I'm a blogger. I'm looking to form a group that can meet-up with their laptops in tow, have lunch or a snack, and get some work done as well. I'm a casual, low-stress, no drama kinda person, but I am asking that if you join this group, you understand my intention for forming it and some ground rules (that I h …

The Vision Promote Her Business (PHB) began as a vision sparked by a creative serial entrepreneur who passionately desired to see other women entrepreneu-HERS succeed in businesses longer than the 5 years they were estimated to last before going under. Namely, she understood how badly it hurt to give business(es) your 100% and NOT be successful, and she didn’t want other entrepreneurs to suffer from the same heartbreak! Accordingly, in 2012, Josephine Hanan, affectionately known as “Jos, teamed …

EAT lunch, MEET people, TALK business Would you like to... • get better at marketing yourself? • develop business friends for the long-term? • have a productive and meaningful networking experience? "Personable Business® Introductions" are our structured approach to networking. You have 3 minutes to introduce yourself both personally and professionally. It's all about sharing yourself with us so we get to know you and you get to know a bit about us. Deeper connections leader to more business! Th …

Silicon Valley Business Group is a referral organization made up of business owners and service professionals in Campbell and surrounding South Bay area whose partners provide products and services to homeowners, consumers, small businesses and corporations. Combining regular meetups and online resources our members work to get to know and actively refer one another. Each member in our community represents a different profession, but frequently sells to collectively common market. As a result of …