"Like eBay, Meetup is turning out to be a bigger idea than it may have appeared at first." —The New York Times
"The Internet isn't just about e-mail or the Web anymore. Increasingly, people online are taking the power of the Internet back into their own hands... It's the emergence of the Power of Us. Thanks to new technologies...people are getting together to take collective action on an un- precedented scale... encourag[ing] people to get together in the real world, not just online. Meetup, for instance, has many thousands of groups that get together regularly, from English bull- dog owners in New York City to scrapbookers in Singapore." —BusinessWeek Magazine
"The website Meetup.com might also be called 'when centuries collide,' for it marries the human impulse to gather in convivial groups -- which is as old as the quilting bee, the hoedown, and the Grange -- to the eye-blink speed and efficiency of technology." —The Boston Globe
"Are you ready for the new Web? It's getting ready for you. It turns out that bidding on eBay, gathering with Meetup and Googling on, um, Google are only the opening scenes in a play whose running time will top 'Mahabharata.'" —Newsweek Magazine