The Detroit Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

The group meets regularly for an hour presentation, followed by a discussion. Software engineers, information architects, business analysts, technical managers who are interested in the information retrieval field are welcome to participate and present.

The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) is a trade association for the mobile industry, including: carriers, manufacturers, hardware developers, software developers, wireless system installers, tower manufacturers/installers, mobile marketing vendors, advertisers, graphic designers, users of the technology, and anyone else interested in Mobile. Our mission is to grow the mobile technology industry within the State of Michigan, thereby generating increased entrepreneurial and enterpr …

Detroitnet.org was started by IT professionals for IT professionals. We didn't like any other group out there, so we started our own! At our events, you might meet some recruiters, some out of work developers, some sales guys, some network admins, some web guys and some senior level management... So come on out, bring some business cards (or don't, it's OK), meet some like-minded people in the Metro Detroit area, and who knows, you could meet a life-long friend, a new business partner, or no one …

Do you know a little about programming in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and are looking to learn more? Do you know absolutely nothing at all but would like to learn more in a friendly, casual learning environment? If so, this is the perfect group for you! Join us Saturday mornings in the underbelly of Cafe Ambrosia in Ann Arbor. We alternate each week between a learning session (where Tom talks about varias development but others are more than welcome to add) and a build session (wh …

Learn how to easily design, build, and maintain a web site for your business, community group, corporation, or family using Drupal, a free and powerful web publishing software package. You can use Drupal to build and maintain a small business web site, a blog, a community discussion forum, a wedding site, and many other types of web sites without any HTML or other programming skills. Got Drupal skills? Come and share with the rest of the group! We meet in different locations between Detroit and …

The purpose of our group is to create a face-to-face community of connected-car doers and thinkers. We do our best to speak candidly about the automobile as a mobile computing platform, find out what other people think, debate big ideas and get on a first-name basis with one another. If you're interested in any aspect of the connected car, please join us. We'll give you a warm welcome.    

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… Though we are currently mostly techies at the moment, if you're a software developer, writer, automotive industry consultant or some other professional that already works from home and wants to GET OUT and meet some people WHILE getting work done, give us a try. New to co-working? Learn more at http://www.workatjelly.com/ Currently we meet at various coffee shops in the Rochester / Rochester Hills area. Bring your laptop, cell phone, anything else you need to get work done and a willingness to m …

Mobile Monday Ann Arbor is a chapter of Mobile Monday Michigan which focuses on encouraging innovation within the local mobile sector and helping local companies participate in initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices. Mobile Monday is a global community started in Finland almost a decade ago and has over 60 chapters worldwide.  The organization works with local and global mobile industry visionaries, and developers fostering coope …