Learn From Silicon Valley's Business Leaders

Many Silicon Valley business leaders operate outside the spotlight but have substantial influence as innovative technologists, creative thinkers or well-connected dealmakers. Here are the Mercury News profiles some of these people. Go here to read some profiles of these leaders.

I found the profile of Dave Sifry, the man behind Technorati (www.technorati.com), a Weblog search engine and data-cruncher. The site has become an essential service for people who want to understand the fast-growing blog cosmos and their place in it. Technorati now searches about 1.4 million blogs (and adds about one every 10 seconds), and has a business plan to sell services to companies that want to track the community conversation about what they're doing.

This is exactly what you want entrepreneurs in your area to do!