Robert Scoble

He owns the building where Google and Paypal got their starts. In his many locations around the world you'll find hundreds of startups (in the Sunnyvale headquarters alone there are more than 200 startups). It's rare that you get to spend more than an hour with a guy like this who has invested in, and advises, so many startups. He explains how Silicon Valley works and gives entrepreneurs many tips. Learn more at http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/

IronWorker from http://www.iron.io is a platform for scaling web applications. It is a massively parallel worker platform. Write your own workers and then run thousands of tasks in parallel to do things like crawl the web, process big data, send out mass notifications, and more. Here I meet with the team and get geeky.

When I was first pitched on Karma I was skeptical. Why do we need a mobile app to remind us for gifts to get other people? But I was blown away by this app. Here I get a demo, and you can learn more at http://getkarma.com/

Here's the final of three videos I filmed at the Wealthfront "Think Bigger. Think IPO" discussion with a number of famous VCs and entrepreneurs. Here is an interesting panel that discusses what the state of IPOs in 2012 is, and some advice for enterpreneurs who are thinking of doing this. Sarah Lacy, founder of PandoDaily, moderated this panel. Ken Goldman CFO, Fortinet Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Tony Zingale Chairman & CEO, Jive Software Dominic Orr President & CEO, Aruba Networks I linked to all three parts here: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/aTBmtCkKDM7

What a panel discussion last night. First, Frank Quattrone Founder & CEO, Qatalyst Partners, came out and gave us a "state of going IPO" talk. That lasted for the first 26 minutes. Then Ari Levy, Technology Reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek came out and ran a panel discussion with: Sameer Gandhi Partner, Accel Partners Bill Gurley Partner, Benchmark Capital Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Doug Leone Partner, Sequoia Capital From 27:00 to 50:28 we hear this VC panel discuss going public and what they are seeing.

Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/05/shufflr-ipad/ GigaOm: http://gigaom.com/video/shufflr-ipad-app-ad-network/ have the details, but here's co-founder Rajnish showing off his app and why it's better than competitors ShowYou, Miso, and Squrl.

OK, he didn't quite say that, but here Benchmark (famous Silicon Valley VC firm) co-founder and current CEO of Wealthfront, tells tech company executives why they should consider going public and talks about why that hasn't happened so much in the past decade. But now the barn doors are open, with LinkedIn, VMware, Rackspace, LinkedIn, Zynga, and soon Facebook, all going public within the past couple of years. Learn more about Wealthfront (a web service for managing your money) at http://wealthfront.com

Here Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, marketing and services, at FileMaker, introduces FileMaker 12 and FileMaker Go, which is free on iPad. New update. More details are on MacRumors site at http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/04/filemaker-pro-12-adds-new-starter-solutions-and-broadens-ios-integration/ and on the Filemaker site at http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro/whats-new.html

This is pretty crazy. Use your iPhone to take a picture of any house and it shows you details about that house. I've tried it a few times and it's always been accurate. See the mind blowing technology behind it. Here the CEO, Guy Wolcott, shows it to me while walking down the street in front of my house. Gett it at http://www.sawbuck.com

Songza is getting a lot of praise as a new way to listen to music. Why? Because they give you a collection of playlists for different times of your life. I've been using it and it's really great. Learn more at http://songza.com Here the founders Elias Roman and Elliott Breece show it to me.