I stumbled upon this site ( the site is selling the concept of putting tags into video) , and there are some cool videos you may want to watch:

There is a 40 minute video of Guy Kawasaki, famous entrepreneur and venture capitalist delivering a presentation about his best selling presentation based on his book, ” Art of the Start”. He gives 10 lists of what it needs to be a successful entrepreneur.

If you are technically inclined, you may want also to watch this video - The Future of the Web — Tim Berners-Lee

Jonathan Schwartz is the president of Sun Microsystems, and in his blog, he tries to outline how companies ( primarily Silicon Valley companies) make investment decisions.  This primarily impacts on many cities’ ( including ours) decisions on how to attract ICT locators.
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” Silicon Valley’s (and certainly Sun’s) business is largely insensitive to the price of labor on the world market. As one of my staff members
said recently, “when it comes to hiring, this ain’t Costco, we don’t buy in bulk.” If we can bring a product to market three or six or twelve months earlier than planned, wage rates as a percentage of total return aren’t even measurable in calculating returns. …

So if you want to attract companies like Sun to your economy, focus on investing in education, in your students, and in your leaders. Focus on educating your policy makers as to why you’re committed to education - not to build presitigious institutions, but to invest in progress, academic as well as economic. Focus on the value of broad based talent as a competitive weapon, don’t be distracted by cost reducing labor.

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