"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein Our Events: Innovation Bound organizes events to help develop the innovation capacities of individuals, leaders, and communities ... Receive Innovation Training Collaborate with other Thought Leaders to Solve Real-World Challenges Laugh, Play, and Have a Great Time! Be Part of a Growing Community of Innovators Our Mission: Innovation Bound exists to enhance the innovation capacity of its clients.  Centuri …

The Innovative Marketplaces meetup brings together entrepreneurs, developers, activists, financiers, and academics to explore how entrepreneurs are using marketplace models to disrupt industries and create change. From the hottest start-ups to the newest policy proposals to latest financial products, marketplaces are popping up everywhere. Join a community of New Yorkers exploring the marketplace phenomenon. Discover a new business model for your start-up. Join a community of innovators. Be ins …

Creating a culture of innovation and imagination keeps any industry vibrant, relevant, and successful. Workshops and discussion groups facilitated by Nathaniel Eggleston, a celebrated champion of imagination and innovative techniques in business, permit participants to step outside the box and see a world of endless possibilities. Fostering imaginative practices in the workplace encourages growth and loyalty, two money-saving and money-making attributes that can turn any business around. Often w …

This Meetup is a network for employees of local, state, federal, and international government to share strategies on creating cultures of innovation within their organizations and any exciting projects they are working on.

Gotham Media's Innovation Lab focuses on presenting programs for entrepreneurs and innovators. We'll focus on how to reach the next level when it comes to starting and/or improving a company. Whether you're starting a company, working on improving an existing company, big or small, or just thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship, this is the place to be. Related Meetups included Gotham Media and FoodTECHNYC

Entrepreneur Week is a global community driven to connect and educate both aspiring and early-stage business owners with the necessary knowledge, tools, skills and access to create jobs, unleash ideas, strengthen economies, and attract capital investment. Over the past three years Entrepreneur Week has developed deep roots in New York and Denver, providing access, education, and support for more than 5,000 entrepreneurs; representing more than $8 billion in revenue. Entrepreneur Week and its ass …

Welcome to NYC Mobile! This group is for folks doing interesting things in the mobile space. The goal is to inspire mobile innovation in New York City through thought exchange and networking. We love the perspectives of technologists, strategists, business innovators, marketers and advertisers. Important topics to discuss include ad networks, payment systems, mobile UI, 2D codes, app development, mobile hardware and software, platform opportunities/growth and how legacy industries are evolving t …

The Feast convenes the most remarkable entrepreneurs, radicals, doers and thinkers who are revolutionizing the way things work for the betterment of humanity. For 2012, we're hosting the first ever global Social Innovation Week in NYC to re-imagine what a better future might look like and we'd like to build it with you, our community. Get ready to get full on good.

Got an invention and want to learn how to license or launch it? Are you an entrepreneur or small business with intellectual property worth protecting? Want to better understand patent and patent rights? Learn business strategy from other innovators? The Inventors Association of Manhattan is for you. Every 2nd Monday of the month, we feature an expert guest speaker, lively discussion among inventors. We foster professionalism, trust and support: All Welcome! Easy online registration. Miss a mee …

This group is for people interested in new technologies, startups and disruptive business innovations in the field of longevity / aging. It supports the Aging2.0 website. Note: we're mostly using Eventbrite to manage our events now, so go there to register for future events. Go here for the events. Topics will be chosen of interest to entrepreneurs and investors looking to accelerate the growth of new companies in this space, and will range health-care (cognition, mobility, sensing) through to h …

Envision| Enlighten | Emerge™ About eLuminate Network eLuminate is a global network of entrepreneurs in various stages of their businesses– from start up to advanced growth.  eLuminate has been around since 2007 and this Meetup group is where members can coordinate networking events and functions designed to encourage business growth. Our Mission eLuminate’s core mission is to champion “business for the rest of us” and provide a platform for entrepreneurs to envision success, become enlightened …

Welcome! Join us with ONE EASY Click. All Profile questions are optional! Photo Credit: A. Pachon Our members are New Yorkers who have an existing, or are thinking of starting an Internet business. We share ideas, collaborate on projects, and help to cross-promote our work within the Internet Entrepreneur Community. Meetups typically include networking and learning where we are free to discuss affiliate marketing, information marketing, joint ventures or any other of a wide range of topics r …

Are you a small business owner? Do you do marketing for your company? If so, then this group is for you. Gone are the days of simply posting a shingle or an advertisement in your local paper, now there is Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin and more. Do these topics confuse you? Are you not sure about how to utilize these avenues to bring in more business? This group is here to rescue you. The group will feature informative and interactive workshops on social media as well as informal get tog …

There's an incredible transformation taking place in Medicine right now, and this group is focused on the design, development and implementation of innovation -- technologic, systems and operational -- directly at healthcare professionals.  And we want to create a community that is in the lead! The current roles and responsibilities, interdependencies and ways of working  between physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are being challenged and there will need to be car …

Welcome Business Professionals! Join Us With One EASY Click - All Profile Questions Are Optional! Photo Credit: Mike Scully Service businesses drive more than half of the U.S. economy. Among you are photographers, contractors, web designers; enterprising and innovative service providers from all industries and fields... The one thing we have in common is that we're service businesses! Perhaps you're planning your first business. Maybe you've been around for decades. Our group discusses everyt …

That's right, we're a book club that doesn't even require you to read the book. Each meeting starts with a video or PDF presentation of the book's key concepts so you can learn everything you need to know just by attending the meeting. We'll discuss how we've applied the book's concepts to our businesses and then leave with an action plan to apply them starting immediately (if you don't use it, you lose it). Who Should Join Open to anyone who'd like to learn more strategies for improving their b …

ABOUT The New Marketplaces, Science & Tech For A Better Internet meetup invites scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, software coders, designers, activists and financiers to discuss and explore how new online marketplaces, business models & infrastructures can create more interaction and innovation on the Web. MEETUPS We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at some of NYC's most cutting-edge tech company offices. MEMBERS Where does the network end and where does the marketplace begin? Wh …

This Meet-up is dedicated to Agencies and Media Companies that are using 'Big Social Data" in innovative and exceptional ways. We are looking for like minded professionals that live Social Media within Agencies and Media Companies or for their Brands they manage. This group will be fun and relaxed,and share Best Practices from some of the Best Social Marketers in NYC. Global Agencies and Local Niche players will share their insights and best practices. We will meet every 4-6 weeks in NYC @ a uni …

The Legal Services Innovators Group brings to the fore a healthy debate & consideration of ideas, technology that can move the legal services sector forward. There is a intrinsic value in the legal profession but, like everything else, it must adapt and move with the times. There is no place better than NYC to discuss & debate the issues. Join with peers, colleagues, innovators & creative disruptors as we explore the role of technology, new delivery methods and suggestions for a new era in law t …

Who We Are This group exists to bring together technology entrepreneurs solving local business challenges and local businesses looking to grow. What We Do Using a mixture of presentation and discussion formats, we provide a forum for members and invited guests to share their business challenges and knowledge, and to present their expertise and the projects and products they are working on. Who Should Join "Local businesses looking to grow" can include anyone selling anything to customers "l …

A networking event should deliver more than just business cards. The Improvised Business Networking Group is for innovative networkers looking for a fun way to make connections. Using the vehicle of improvisation, instructors from The Peoples Improv Theater facilitate events that allow participants to meet in an exciting and educational environment. Our members make strong connections using the team building, public speaking, and communication techniques used to inject fun into the workplace …

What do Fab, Indochino, Birchbox, Gilt Groupe, Diapers.com, Totsy, Zulily, Lot18, Dollar Shave Club, and seemingly every high flying ecommerce company have in common? They have transformed how people buy. The new breed of ecommerce businesses don't use technology just to host a transaction but to recreate the entire experience - from discovery to purchase. The NYC Retail Disruption // Innovation Meetup will feature industry leaders discussing: * Curation * Discovery * Customer Acquisition * Merc …

Idea Pinata is an exciting collaboration of people coming together to generate ideas to help you get better and more meaningful work done. This group is ideal for freelancers, small business owners, inventors, innovators and people who want to change the world by growing ideas into socially responsible businesses that make the world a better place. Our very active “idea-ups” will use techniques championed by improvisation to facilitate an environment that is fun, supportive and productive. We wi …

Calling All Entrepreneurs and people in Small Business. Are you curious about getting your business to thrive, and with more ease? This will be the premier business networking and educational group in NY. Our members are entrepreneurs, small business owners, investors, and those starting businesses, who want to network and collaborate with others, and also learn tools to grow their businesses. The Purpose of This Group is for You to: 1. Surround yourself in a positive business community, where …

NY Startup Innovators is for those doing exciting and new things in the Big Apple, within the startup and small business spaces. Maestro leads this group and has the goal to equip entrepreneurs and their staff with the tools they need to excel. Learn more about Maestro: www.TheMaestroProject.com This MeetUp forum creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, techies, startup educators and investors to gather in the name of excelling, not just meeting goals. We offer investor feedback and pitch panel …

This group is for anyone in Manhattan excited about the use of iPads in all areas of business. We started this group to share stories on how the iPad has become an important and innovative tool to solve business problems. We will get together to share stories on unique use cases and explore business problems the iPad effectively solves. If you would like to expand your network with other like-minded people who are passionate about the intersection of technology and business, feel free to join us …

These meetups will be hosted by Backbase. We are a portal software company focused on superior User Experience, particularly in the Financial World. Being that we are located in downtown Manhattan, one of the Financial Capitals of the world, it would make sense to get a meetup going with people interested in Bank 2.0, Bank Innovation, User Experience in Enterprises, etc... Initially I hope the meetups to be networking events but hopefully we can branch out and have some community presentations, …

This is not your normal Meetup. This will be a group devoted to *changing* the health system, not to using it. The idea is to bring together people who want to run "nonclinical" trials of large-scale communitywide programs to prevent disease and foster health. Each will require substantial investment, which the community will have to raise for itself (from outsiders or insiders). HICCup is for them to share ideas, models, mistakes, inspiration. It is not a funding vehicle. We'll be using this Me …