
Founder's Lunch - Not your average Business owners group
Peer-to-peer founder lunch centered on candid business strategy talk—what’s working, what’s not, and experiments to try next—without sales pitches or transactional card swapping. Casual pay-your-own-way meetup with pre-registration for seating.
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