There has never been a more exciting time to be part of the UK’s startup scene, but something seems amiss. Sure, we all enjoy celebrating other entrepreneur's successes, whether they have achieved epic growth, closed seed rounds or raise VC, but we’re all far too ashamed of the bad days. Failboat London is here to fix that. If one of the keys to startup success lies in validated learning, then we should be proud of our failures, sharing them with one another and growing a stronger, more agile ec …

The Meetup group for anyone interested in IT Kanban and lean agile information technology in London UK.

The Idea behind Project Startup is to create a Startup and in the process learn about starting and running a company through the sharing and exchange of skills. Just as with the London Skills Exchange, we aim to bring together talented people who can mutually benefit from each other's experience. The Project: The Startup is iToucan Help, based on iToucan Talk (Pronounced "I too can talk") a free Android Phone and tablet app which helps Autistic Children and others with communication difficulties …

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

This group offers a platform for entrepreneurs with complementary skill sets to connect with each other, facilitating the initial team-building process. As strong believers in the lean approach, we feel start-ups should not have to spend their hard-earned funding or personal savings to recruit team members. Instead, you just need the opportunity to meet likeminded co-founders/new team members in a relaxed environment. Whether you're a co-founder with a technical background looking to find a busi …

If you are starting a new business whether it is a social enterprise, tech or hi tech, the next facebook or something more modest you want to join us!  We are a group by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs specialising in starting up businesses. If you would like to help out let us know If you want to apply for Programme entry please check out the eligibility. Accelerace runs free and paid for sessions (to cover costs).  The free sessions are in the evening and typcially follow a case study, present …

How do you take a product from that eureka moment to a fully working product and scalable business? This group has been set up to help you get your startup started, focus on what's important for you and allow both new and experienced startup folks alike to share experiences – both eye-watering successes and grandiose failures. Our events will have a lean startup slant but won't exclude people that aren't lean 'believers'.

Welcome to our meetup! We're a startup community dedicated to connecting aspiring entrepreneurs, professionals, ideas and investors to swap, share and collaborate to develop and co-found new businesses. Right now in the UK there are over 27 million people with start-up ambitions that fail to move beyond the hope. There's a few reasons why, like not having the technical skills to develop their ideas; having no idea - literally; fearing failure and loss; and not having the money... The timing does …

We're 4 entrepeneurs with a passion for building an entrepreneurial community and doing things a little differently. Over the next 6 months or so we want to trial some events that are more unusual, more innovative, and we want you to help us shape these events and come on this journey with us. If you're interested in startups, meeting likeminded people, networking, developing concepts or anything like that then join the group, help us spread the word and feel free to start a discussion if you ha …

Inspired by 500startup's unsexy conference, http://unsexy.co/, we want to bring all the unsexy startups together. Well, if you are building another Instagram or Facebook, this is probably not a right meet up for you. If you are interested in "making money" much more than a TechCrunch coverage, you find yourself a second home! "Unsexy startups" in SMB/Enterprise, financial services, communications, email, data, infrastructure, and more. Let's mingle. Format: We are thinking bring (1)two speakers …

This group is for anyone interested in the actionable applications of Lean UX en route to building products customer's love. Once a customer has come across your product, your UX is the make or break backbone of your business. Make it awesome, Make it Lean!

Welcome! Getting a startup off the ground can be tough! Particularly if you're doing it on your own but it needn't be an isolating experience. We've found business networking an invaluable experience for startups but we've sometimes felt it can be a little cold and impersonal - a never ending round of handshakes, smiles and business card exchanges, with everyone just looking to sell to each other, losing sight of the huge array of other benefits that can be derived from meeting people who are a …

Growth Hackers Part marketers, part coders, we're lean and data driven. We design for virality and ensure it's intrinsic in our projects. We test fanatically, optimise relentlessly and shoot for hockey-stick growth. We'll meet to discuss tactics, strategies, developments, trends, trade code and hack through some challenges together. Here are some resources on Growth Hacking you might find useful: http://www.vccafe.com/2012/09/05/introduction-to-growth-hacking-for-startups/

What is Converge? Converge+UK is a series of events to foster communication, collaboration and creation at the intersection of Design, Business & Technology. The concept was co-founded by a diverse group of London professionals working in lot’s of different disciplines with a common interest in entrepreneurship including Klaus Bravenboer, Peter Thomson, Tim McCready, David Mclaire, Sallie Bale, and Dan George. We had all separately been going to lots of events related to our respective industrie …

Let's get developers and designers together and let's start making things! Developers have ideas but need designers to make it look pretty and look a million bucks. Designers and Entrepreneurs need Developers to turn their idea into something that is functional and works. How much more "Lean" can you get than having only Developers and Designers in a start-up! If you're not planning a start-up and just want to meet fellow Designers or Developers, you are more than welcome. Everyone is welcome an …

Welcome to StartUpFit, We're interested in health, fitness and productivity to help startups be as effective as possible. If you have a startup or work in one we'd love to get to know you, hear what's working, what's not, the challenges you face and how lean you are. This is our first experiment, taking a lean startup approach to discovering what works and best serves the startup community. Come on down, get involved and give us your feedback, please shoot us over any ideas you might have... To …

The Founders’ Hive is a Peer to Peer Startup Virtual Incubator for all. It is a unique and welcoming global platform where entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts, executives, non-executive directors, angel investors, innovators, and venture capitalists come together to collaborate, listen, share, learn and as result inspire each other to transform ideas into viable and profitable businesses. Our Mission is to help entrepreneurs execute their ideas better and find partners that become the catalyst of …

The London Limited WIP Society is the home of the  community embracing Kanban for evolutionary change and continuous improvement. "Limited WIP" refers to limiting the amount of work in process -- a core practice in lean pull systems such as kanban. This is where our community can learn and share learning and why things work or don't work Helps stay connected with other practitioners and stay informed about community events.

This is a group for entrepreneurs and professionals interested in real time metrics, lean analytics and data driven decision making. This is an open group although Geckoboard clients will have priority access to each event. The venue and dates will be communicated in advance via Meetup.com and Geckoboard mailing list. http://www.datadrivenlondon.com/ About Geckoboard Geckoboard is a realtime status board for businesses. It collects your business information from many online services, summarises …

A group for the new breed of entrepreneur that wants to realise their dreams and do things differently. We're all about startups that put people first and measure success in happiness, as well as profits. We believe happy teams, storytelling and customer experience are key to delivering on vision. The future belongs to organisations that live their values, love their customers, have a clear purpose and focus on a strong company culture. Think Southwest Airlines over Ryanair. Agree? Then come joi …

This is a group for professionals from all industries looking to exchange ideas with developers on how to solve the business and process problems they experience in their day to day life. Developers have the IT knowledge but need to know what the industry problems are in order to solve them, professionals understand the pain points they would like solved in order to get ahead in their work - IdeationHQ hopes to be the forum where the two can mingle and discuss! Remember, we're not looking for st …

This is a meetup that will hold events in London for new and seasoned entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in building communities and scaling a business successfully, particularly tech startups. The group is run by Jonathan Lea who mostly works as a freelance corporate and commercial lawyer and advises a number of startups while also building his own web platform for businesses. Quite a few of our meetups will deal with the legal issues that startups and entrepreneurs encounter, but we will …

Let´s find each other to work together! To find common passions and get our dreams done! If you are looking for people like you, selfmotivated, enthusiast, reliable, passional, love having fun, selflearner, and much more, come and join us in these great meetings. Find partners to build a business with! Do you have free time, knowledge, money, the three of them or non of them but super energetic, and fast learner? any of these are most welcome!

Tired of going to startup events where everyone is simply out to help themselves? At Startup Karma we're trying to bring the "Pay it Forward" attitude of Silicon Valley to London by asking each attendee to help at least one person at the event. It could be as simple as making an introduction to an investor or key hire, or as in-depth as offering some specialty consulting.

A group for people interested in learning and applying all about startups. Focus on applying.

There are so many books for startups out there, I just can't read them all! I figured there must be a lot of founders out there with the same problem...you'd like to know the key actionable points and take-aways from all the amazing startup, entrepreneurship and business books out there. You know, books like Eric Reis's 'Lean StartUps' or classics like 'the Innovators Dilemma' and more specific books on great UX and design, marketing or sales. This group will pick 2 books for 2 members to summar …

This is a group for early stage tech founders and members of the Campus community to regularly meet, connect and share ideas and best practices. We aim to meet at least once monthly, in a relaxed setting with the aim of making new connections and learning at least one thing. Let's fill this town with startups!

Start.Build.Grow has been specifically designed to answer three questions: How do you start a successful business? How do you build a business that has a massive impact? How do you grow and attract loads of customers? The event is made up of interactive hands-on masterclasses from leading business experts who take us through the core strategies of Branding, Pr, Marketing and many more, presentations from inspirational founders, a high-octane pitchfest with some of the world's best angel investor …