Hello everyone,<p>I am recent engineering graduate and moved to DC area for work. I am greatly interested in meeting entrepreneurs and hackers in the area and was wondering if you guys knew about any meetup events or groups in the area that are active. I'd love to meet fellow HN readers in the area.
I could list a few that I attend, but the better/easier thing would be for you to search meetup.com. It should provide you with a good starting point by industry and/or tech topic.<p>The regional tech entrepreneurial organizations, like the Northern Virginia Tech Council also maintain lists of resources.<p>Lastly, there are a few revenue-generating (Profitable?!?) startups that provide services back to the local startup community by organizing and/or making space available for events. The three that pop into mind first are Affinity Labs, 1410Q, and iStrategyLabs.
There is an active Lean Startup Circle in DC, see <a href="http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lean-Startup-Circle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lean-Startup-Circle/</a> (for a full list of LSC groups see <a href="http://leanstartup.pbworks.com/Meetups" rel="nofollow">http://leanstartup.pbworks.com/Meetups</a>
could check out DC Startup Digest... I haven't lived in DC for a while but planning to move back soon. I subscribed a while ago to get a feel for what's going on.
You still have a chance to get in on startup weekend in mid-August! <a href="http://dc.startupweekend.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dc.startupweekend.org/</a>