Description of Community Group: It takes skill, resources and a community to create a successful business, be it a high-tech start-up or a small business. At Golden Gate University, many of our students choose to start their own ventures upon graduation, building on the knowledge they've gained with us. Business owners also come to GGU looking to fill gaps in their training and gain the confidence it takes to compete in the climate today. Many of our faculty are themselves investors and entrepre …

East Bay Technology Executives (EBTE) has been formed to take advantage of and leverage our common East Bay location and unique cultural attributes. To create a foundation of shared experience, membership is open to people living in who live in the Bay Area's 510- and 925- area codes...and are current or former: officer-level (VP or more senior) executives and entrepreneurs/founders from technology companies of all types (hardware/software, communications, digital media, Internet, cleantech, et …

Many of us who started our careers on Wall Street are now converging on Silicon Valley to start new companies and careers. This is a meetup for current and ex-Wallies to mingle, network, and discuss the opportunities and challenges of making this transition. Also check out our sister group in NYC.

Join us! San Francisco Bay Area Journalists is a nonprofit group of journalists navigating the transition to the next era of journalism by sharing insights on high quality reporting, sustainable jobs, diversity, editorial independence and press freedoms. (We also have a lot of fun!)  Our meetups are all free or low-cost.  SF Bay Area Journalists operates as part of Newswire21.org, an award-winning nonprofit news organization focused on finding sustainable ways to blend the passion of communit …

… Welcome to Second Act, the place to plan your future, imagine your new career, find your next adventure, and people to share the journey with. Our mantra: Everyone deserves the chance to chase new dreams. Your first 40 or so years may have been successful. Your next 40 can be even better. This community is geared toward "Baby Bloomers" and "Gen neXters" but welcomes whoever feels at home. The Boomers started exceeding expectations the moment they were born, and Gen Xers joined them. Second Act i …

This is a group for women in their 30s who feel they are going through major transitions in life, i.e., career, family, new home, friendships/relationships, spirituality, etc. As a woman in my 30's, I definitely experienced this transition and I am still going through it now. It seems that the 30's is such an important stage in life when you are redefining yourself, establishing yourself and asserting who you are as an adult in the world. My purpose in creating this group is to create a space fo …

… We not only get ourselves all twisted up in relationships with other humans but in relationship with the universal "Other" in all forms: Money, Career, Food, Sex, Children, Family, Creativity, Ourselves, the list goes on. We will explore ancestoral, devotional entanglements that limit or block these relationships as well through the Family Soul Constellation process based on the work of Bert Hellinger who developed and refined Systemic Constellations.   I am a Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coac …

… In previous careers, I was a violin teacher to toddlers and a venture capitalist. I also completed an undergraduate degree at Harvard and a medical degree at University of Michigan. I received life coach training from Martha Beck, PhD, author and monthly columnist for O Magazine, and certification in Sound Voice & Music Healing from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I am also a trained facilitator in Real Speaking by Gail Larsen. You can read more about me and my business, The Music …

We created THE ART OF ACTIVE NETWORKING to help you do better and to make better, genuine ACTIVE connections, And people from all careers, well employed to unemployed attend. Check out our site at http://www.TheArtofActiveNetworking.com. At THE BOX SF, we give artists, musicians and foodies a unique new home in which to collaborate and build their art as well as their following. At The Box SF you will taste and sip something fantastic, see and hear some wonderful things and you will experience a …