Last Night Brian and I attended Vator Splash in San Francisco, the format was focused on Startups.  The attendees were mostly Founders and Venture Capitalists.  The format was two 1/2 hour bookend presentations by recent successes, Jeff Smith CEO of Smule (Ocarina App) and Mark Pincus CEO of Zynga (Farmville)  both were doing exciting things with the social aspects of new platforms like Facebook and the iPhone.  The middle of the night was filled up with 10 demo from fledgling startups.

It was a quick format with 3 minutes given to each startup, with one AND ONLY ONE, Robert Scoble, follow up question.  You can find out a lot about a startup in 3 minutes.  I was very impressed with the winner Tim Hyer Founder of RentCycle, who has the potential of capitalizing on economics and a growing desire to adapt our consumerism to more sustainable practices.  It's a great tie in with Tuesday's NY Tech Meetup, what will technology do for us in the next 10 years, while being a great business model at the same time.

Dana Settle, a principle in Greycroft, one of Crowd Fusion's investors, was on the splash panel to give feedback to the Event Cycle.  It's always good to see Dana's smile when I get to the left coast.  Mark Pincus was a surprisingly motivating speaker, he's dedicated to his craft and clearly perfection is not only strived for but demanded.  To be clear I despise every one of his apps that I have to block from my Facebook stream, it was good to hear he's looking to raise the bar and be more than the 'pet rock' of 2009.

In the demo pit I found a very exciting future tech.  Beam Energy from Power Beam Energy definitely check that out.  Thanks Bambi Francisco, Vator.tv, and all of the sponsors for a fun event.  Landing back in JFK in the middle of a snow storm signing off now.