Some common examples include sports teams, book clubs, and social groups. Once you create an account, you can use the website to find "meetups" groups that interest you… or create your own if no one else already has. Simply browse meetups in your area; you can also search for meetups by category, date, location, or suggestions for you once you begin using Meetup and it learns your preferences.
Click on any meetup that interests you to learn more about it. You can even see photos of their gatherings! Once you find a meetup that interests you, you can join it. There are no restrictions to joining — all you have to do is confirm that you're joining, and then show up at the organized time! Simply enter a bit of information about where you are and what you want to do, and then wait to see if others are interested as well.
You can also send instant messages to other users to learn more about any meetup you may be interested in. Heifernman cited the September 11th attacks in New York City as inspiration for him to make it easier for strangers to come together. Since then, Meetup has grown to over 28 million members who have organized over , meetup groups.
In over countries, , monthly meetups take place. Meetup users do not need to pay a fee to sign up for the website, and the service itself is free to use for individual users. Meetup makes its money by charging group organizers a monthly fee to run their groups. It is then up to the group organizers to choose whether or not to charge group members fees, and how much. In general, group organizers do not use Meetup to make money; usually, they only charge group members small fees to keep the group running.
To learn more about pricing, visit our article on when the service is free, and how much it can cost you. Meetup is as safe as any social media website, so long as reasonable precautions are taken. However, because you only need an email address to sign up, and the website has no identity verification, anyone could attend a meetup and pose a safety concern to users.
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Now, Meetup is in limbo. As tension builds at WeWork to divest its noncore businesses, Siegel has a mandate to find a buyer, and to do so within the next month or two. In the days and months that followed, he noticed people were connecting more with neighbors, saying hello and checking up on them.
The next year, along with Matt Meeker, he launched Meetup as a way to get people offline and making friends in real life. Meetup started to take off in when the presidential campaign of Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, used it as a tool for grassroots organizing in the Democratic primary.
Meetup has 49 million members, compared to 2. However, Meetup shares the same global reach and is available in more than countries. Compared to other tech companies, Meetup grew slowly but steadily. It added users and raised small rounds of funding, enjoying the kind of affinity most tech companies aspire to.
Derek Andersen, CEO and co-founder of Bevy Labs, a software product that helps large companies build communities offline, said he first fell in love with Meetup in September He was able to use the platform to scale up his Startup Grind event series, which connects techies around the world, to chapters. The company, which primarily rented office space for long leases and then offered those spaces for short term leases, had emerged as one of the rising stars among the startups of the early s, along with Uber, Lyft and Airbnb.
WeWork, along with these other companies, was fueled by sizable investments from venture capitalists who funneled billions of dollars into their businesses and inflated their valuations will remaining private. Previously, tech companies had been pushed to go public and allow their stock to trade openly.
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