If you own a small business or are thinking of starting a small business this is the group for you. Small business is the engine that drives this country. Winning in small business keeps the American Dream alive of making it possible for getting ahead in life based on one's own ability and achievement. Small business owners wear many hats and it is hard to do everything we need to do. By pooling our resources and knowledge we can leverage our talents to grow and make our businesses more profitab …

On the last Friday of the month, we get together for an all-night hacking session. Stay as long or as short as you'd like. This group is for anyone who wants to catch up on that nagging side project at a late night, caffeinated coding session with like-minded individuals. All skill levels and languages are welcome! Designers and entrepreneurs welcome too, come get some work done!

StartLouis is a grassroots community of bootstrappers, solopreneurs, and startup enthusiasts in St. Louis, Missouri. Our mission is to bring St. Louis entrepreneurs together for learning and collaboration. Our monthly meetup event features a presentation and Q&A session with an accomplished St. Louis CEO, plus a short talk from one of our own members. All are welcome, free of charge! Follow us on Twitter at @StartLouis Start a discussion on our Message Board Check out our Resources section

We talk We hack We drink Why aren't you here yet? STLRuby is open to all. You don't even have to be a developer. If you have an intrest in Ruby then this is the place to be. We have beginners to experts. We even have the occasional designer who tries to tell us how awesome php is. We don't even all love Ruby all the time. So beginner, expert, designer, or Ruby hater, we will still welcome you for a beer and some code talk. Psst, we may even talk about design a little. Follow us @stlruby

The St. Louis Internet Entrepreneur's Group was started to create networking opportunities for individuals looking to exchange ideas on starting and growing successful internet businesses including mobile apps.

Startup Grind is a global event series and community designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story 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.

Bring your ideas for creative collaboration in the area of digital design whether you are beginner, advanced or just have some great ideas. I work in Adobe products and know that utilizing the resources available we could create some projects that would awe and inspire. We could design for print, web, video, epub, apps, machinima, 3D, animation, digital music, etc. There are events around the country that we could travel to together. Together we can blend our strengths to realize productions rar …

This is the St. Louis area Joomla User Group. We are a group of Joomla! users who meet once a month for information exchange, networking, and to have a good time! Each meeting includes a presentation about a popular Joomla! extension, a real life case study using the Joomla! CMS, and a lightening round in which questions about any aspect of Joomla! can be posed to the group. Our group consists of a wide range of Joomla! users, from developers, designers, and those just beginning with Joomla! We …

The Parkland Meetup series has been created to provide a venue for people that have various technology scopes of interest to connect with each other while at the same time allow local business owners a way to find local talent in the Parkland area in Southeast Missouri. Our area has an abundance of talent that has been untapped to drive business growth in the region. Experience has shown that many of the local individuals who have an untapped technology skills have not had the ability to find ea …

This is a group for anyone interested in growing a business more productively and comfortably using interactive marketing techniques. We'll discuss online technologies -- such as email, social media, and the web -- but we'll also discuss how to use traditional media (such as print, broadcast, and teleprospecting) interactively to grow your business. Each meetup will feature marketing experts discuss a given topic -- with lots of discussion and interactivity expected. Bagels, coffee and other goo …

A group for people in the Springfield, IL area to meet, talk, and learn from each other in the area of web design, development and business.

We are here to help people find other people with the same similarities, in relative close proximedies within each other, so that we may get to know each other, share thoughts, find business partners, talk about our projects, Adsense talk, marketing talk, spirituality(if spiritual), self-growth and personal development, and just hang out and have a good time!

The purpose of this group shall be to advance the effective utilization of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence and related products; to spread the word about MicroStrategy solutions and product improvement from the MicroStrategy Corporation; as well as to promote free interchange of information and ideas through regularly scheduled meetings and publications sponsored by MicroStrategy.