Venture Connects provides entrepreneurs, both seasoned and starting out, with opportunities to investment capital, strategic business partnerships and other essential business services needed to cultivate growth. Venture Connects does this through an online platform and in-person partnerships. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or business looking to help startups, Venture Connects bridges the gap and is the one stop source to assist your business. www.ventureconnects.biz

How to Create a WordPress Crowd Funding Website to Raise Money Now! You've heard of Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com. Both are websites where strangers from all over the world help fund your business idea, project, cause or mission by donating (or "sponsoring") money in the form of a "perk." This is not an investment, venture capital or loan. Millions have been raised using "Crowd Funding" websites. Most people have no idea they can launch a Crowd Funding website using WordPress and a PayPal ac …

Wanna practice your pitching techniques BEFORE you get in front of investors? Let's beat each other up before we get in front of the bare-knuckle guys. If you're read Oren Klaff's book "Pitch Anything" or are a sales professional sale or a fund-raiser. This group may be for you.

VentureSHOT Entrepreneur Collaboration Community brings together extraordinary entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses and enhance their levels of success. This community was launched and is run BY Entrepreneurs...FOR Entrepreneurs. We REALLY know the issues entrepreneurs face in growing their businesses and our vision is to help hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve greater success through collaboration with their peers, mentors and unique, powerful collaboration sessions. Click Here For P …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

We are a group of first or second generation Business Owners, Executives and Entrepreneurs that meet to discuss topics relating to starting up a business, scaling, selling, and planning for our exit from our business. We meet once a month. Each meeting has a presenter on a topic that Entrepreneurs want to learn more about. Some of our Past Topics include: Selection of a Business Entity, Acquiring Venture Capital, What to know about your Employment Agreements? Top Ten thing to know in being Acqui …

Chicago Food Tech offers a variety of meetup events to bring together restauranteurs, food and technology changemakers and innovators with diverse backgrounds in order to create dialogues surrounding new business models, showcase opportunities, challenges, synergies, and forecast food technology's future.

Inspire Startups gives Chicago's top early-stage startups the opportunity to showcase their solutions to 50+ techies and investors. This event combines the best of tech expos and networking in an intimate setting topped off with a pitch competition. Don't miss the opportunity to mingle with Chicago's elite startup community.

The official Embassy Facebook page for Appsterdam Chicago. The best place in the world to be an app maker. Our goal is to bring app makers together, and our mission is to support their interests worldwide. We established Amsterdam as the capital of Appsterdam - the world capital of apps - to establish a centre of gravity for our industry, to provide a place where all app makers can gather, and to create a framework for people to give back and support the community. Stichting Appsterdam is a non- …

digitalundivided GROW Chicago 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.

We meet every other month to engage in dialogue with feisty, leading-edge conscious business thinkers and leaders. As conscious professionals, we play with our evolving understanding of the new capitalism of integrity and transparency, and expand our personal and business imaginations. We also engage in fun, heartfelt networking with colleagues.

Meet with other local floor and online traders (face to face or online to your PC through our state of the art webinar tools) who engage in futures, index's, stocks, commodities and forex trading. The goals is to create a supportive environment where all group members can share their ideas, learn something new and ultimately achieve success in their trading plan. Our group includes experienced local floor and online traders and newbie’s looking to start out on the right trading foot. We will …

The Chicago Chapter of the Ayn Rand Institute promotes the Institute's mission of educating students and adults on the value of individual rights, reason and free markets. Through ARI's series of outreach and educational workshops, chapter members gain valuable insight into Ayn Rand's philosophy (Objectivism) expressed in her novels, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem and We the Living as well as her collection of non-fiction books on philosophy and other topical essays. The Chicago Chapte …

The goal of The Chicago Human Resources Meetup Group is to create an environment where HR professionals can discuss best practices and industry trends, network, learn from industry pros, and develop professionally. Our aim is to help HR professionals broaden their business networks, increase their awareness of the newest trends, strategies and best practices in Human Capital Management and contribute to the development of the field. Requirements: This meetup is reserved for Chicago HR profe …

Get an insider's view on what it takes to develop a successful career from local Chicago experts. Each meeting will focus on a specific career and detail the job responsibilities, capabilities, intrinsic value and work environment of the expert's career focus. The meetings are offered as part of AltaStaff's CareerFocus program, a training program offered by this local, woman-owned boutique staffing agency to educate its associates on career and capability development.

Welcome! This group is for leaders eager to create solutions that will define their business future today with a view to leaving our city greater than when we found it. Together we will explore practices, ideas, and thinking that will move business forward while improving our city. We will meet monthly to connect and share ideas and discuss what's new in business today.

CEO Space is the world's oldest, largest & most successful network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary Investors. We are an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA level ~ training, development and an immersion experience of cooperation that result in income acceleration through exponential business growth. Come experience our “Community of Cooperation” and extend this special invitation also to your partners, associates and other entrepreneurs …

This group will meet to learn about the new crowd funding laws passed in the recent JOBS act and help prepare small businesses and entrepreneurs for raising capital through selling equity in their businesses using approved intermediaries. A couple of great articles to learn more about crowd funding, the JOBS act and more can be read here http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223290 http://www.fridayfirm.com/news/449-alert040612

The Money Club of Chicago is a club that's about building capital. If you are serious about creating capital and you want to be apart of The Money Club, this is the club for you. We, as a group, invest transparently and we use leverage to create capital. No member does more than any other member and there's two simple requirements you must meet to be apart of the club.

This group will consist of BI professionals, data consumers, data evangelists, Sharepoint developers, data & enterprise architects, and business stakeholders  looking to leverage corporate assets through the information lifecycle and capitalize on advancing technologies. During our meetings we will discuss the following topics: Data strategies and roadmaps ERP and data rationalization Master Data Management Data Governance Operational assessments Enterprise Data Management Design Functional & L …