I am really looking forward to today.  We have the founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies in town for our annual portfolio company summit.  We consider it a privilege to be able to convene such an awesome group of folks.  We always come away having learned a ton of things.  Here are some of the topics that we are planning to cover today:

Living in a multi-device world.  With iPhones selling like hotcakes, Android beginning to take off, various tablets in the offing, etc. companies will have to think about how to make their sites and services available.  Here is a chart culled from AdMob’s monthly reports that shows the incredible growth happening in mobile alone:

Another topic we will be talking about is internationalization.  We have a number of companies in the portfolio that either already have or are about to embark on internationalization of their sites and services.  Here is a chart to illustrate why that’s important.  It shows Facebook’s growth.

Before pulling this together, I had no idea just how much Europe accounted for the last 12 month of growth at Facebook.

Other topics will include scaling (not just from a technology perspective, but the entire organization) and the importance of having an API.  For each of these topics we have one or two slides to motivate the discussion, but we do very little presenting.  It is the discussion among the group that produces the valuable insights.