Sastri's talented multitudes reside on the servers of HelloBrain.com, an "intellectual capital exchange" in Santa Clara, California, where high-tech companies post engineering projects and freelance engineers around the world bid on the work.

FORBES: Hello brain. Good-bye rules.

In a country where government deficits make capital scarce and interest rates high, the best firms rely on intellectual assets rather than on tangible ones.

FORBES: Bad government, good companies