At Meetup’s headquarters in midtown New York City, a screen broadcasts event RSVPs that roll in at an average of 100 per minute. The events span the globe: “Ankara Board Game Enthusiasts” in Turkey, ...

Meetup, an online platform that lets you find events and meet people offline that have similar interests, has announced it is testing out a new payment structure that will charge users to RSVP for an ...

On a spring day last year, Scott Heiferman, cofounder and CEO of the New York–based networking service Meetup, gathered a group of about 50 colleagues in a capacious bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was ...

That’s what Lis, now 57, needed. “I forced myself to go to a couple of events in the beginning, and they only had two or three people,” Lis recalls. “I just signed up for events they did until I found ...

After pushback from organizers, Meetup issued a clarification on its website Tuesday emphasizing that the changes are a test for a “small number of groups.” “Organizers of these select groups have the ...