Since 2010 LeanLA has helped Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs build successful businesses by learning and practicing Lean Startup techniques. We are smart and driven high tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products that they want. Our startups achieve sucess faster that most because we get out of the building to talk to customers, use agile software development to decrease time to market and leverage continuous deployment to learn as fast as possible.  This is …

About this Meetup - Whether you have already tasted the Lean Start-up kool-aid or still skeptical, come meet-up with practitioners who are deploying the entrepreneurial management concepts of lean start-up in their own small businesses. Important - Lean Start-up is not about doing everything yourself as a sole-proprietor or operating in a "Lean" overworked, underpaid haste. Introductory reference - What is Lean Start-up * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

Local events by product managers, for product managers. ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in Los Angeles to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and s …

San Diego County Agile Group enables members to share quality practices, principles, concepts, ideas, and methods through meetings, seminars, workshops and networking events. All IT professionals will enjoy this group. Join us and help lead the way to better quality software.

Calling all women in technology interested in being part of a 'Lean in' circle. The idea is to meet in small groups regularly to share and learn together, based on the lean in 'Circles' idea conceptualized by Sheryl Sandberg in her book 'Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead'. Please check out http://leanin.org/ if you would like to learn more. I have started this group because there are not enough women at my workplace and i want to keep my social contacts...social. We will meet in the Pasa …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space: - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea i …

Los Angeles Product Managemers was created to foster professional development and networking opportunities. Meetings will cover topics such as product strategy, development methodologies, Product Marketing, Market Discovery, and industry trends.

Connecting ITSM professionals in Southern California. A chance for those who are connected digitally to get together informally to meet, learn and share ideas. Those who want to talk frameworks or movements like ITIL, CoBIT, ITSM, USMBOK, DevOps, Agile, Lean and others.

Carbon Five hosts a bi-weekly, intimate hack night for developers who want to code and collaborate for a couple of hours after work. Bring your own project or work with someone else. Developers of all experience levels are welcome. We'll kick off with a very brief daily-style intro where everyone gives their name, says what they're working on and whether or not that want a hand... then we'll get our hack on. There will be at least a couple Carbon Five folks around to help out. Doors open around …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

Dedicated to establishing a community of UX Designers, Entrepreneurs and Engineers to develop and promote innovation in Northeast LA. This group will feature UX-related events, studio tours, meetups in an effort to drive technology and startup culture to the Pasadena, Glendale, Downtown LA and points surrounding area. Follow us: @NELAUX

A few of us from SendGrid want to mix it up with anyone about agile / lean. Whether you so agile now (and even if you don't like coffee), consider meeting up to discuss agile methodologies wrt software dev (testing, project mgmt, product ownership, coaching) or life-hacking. There's simply not enough OC meet-ups on agile/lean, right??!! Might be mostly mornings, unless people like later times. Talk about stuff we tried and results, stuff we wanna try and expectations, or just coffee.

This is group for anyone interested in collaborative innovation, new venture development and project management.  We will learn how to use the INNOVATEstudio.com application and have experts in agile project management, software development, product design, startup financing and other topics of interest speak to the group.

As a software engineer looking at creating my very first company, I get plenty of advice from non-technical CEO's and business owners and enjoy every minute of it, but some of the biggest companies in the world were started by Technical and Engineering minded CEO's with a technological vision that most in regular business can't grasp. My goal is to meet those kind of people, to have lunch with or sit down and talk to Hardware or Software Engineers that run their own companies or want to start. W …

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our San Diego group; see also our, LA/OC Group, and our flagship Silicon Valley group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. …

This meetup is for everyone interested in Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and XP. We want to help create a knowledge sharing and social community in the Los Angeles area that allows those who are interested in meeting other Agile Practitioners, PMs, and coaches and those interested in learning more about "Going Agile". We make sure that we provide an educational component with workshops, and events. It is organized by Agile Media Consulting and Patricia Anglano who is known as the Agile …

Scrum Enthusiast Orange County Meetup group is to provide an opportunity for Scrum practitioners and novices to meet, share their experiences, and discuss Scrum topics.

Startup California and Startup OC are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: Young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game. Startup Orange County is part of the Startup California ecosystem, and has three key goals: 1. Provid …

A group for CTO's based in San Diego to get together, share challenges, solutions and a beer.

This group is focused on bringing tech startup founders, team members, associates, etc. together to discuss topics that are specifically relevant to them. We will also bring other members of the startup ecosystem to the group, including VC's, angel investors, law firms, thought leaders, PR and marketing specialists, etc.

This Meetup group, Social Mi Los Angeles, will be a very exciting one to be a part of. Our group will be composed of C-level executives of startups and members of highly established Web based organizations like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and more. The group is here to grow, help each other out, and even do business together. Our events will consist of keynote speakers, startup presentations, group brainstorming sessions, networking, food, and a in general having a good time. We like to focus more o …

Tech events for startups in the 805. Our first few events have been amazing, and hope you join us for more.