Margaret Thatcher was also said to get by on four hours a night, while the 130-hour workweeks endured by tech heads has been held up as key to their success.

The Next Web's Hermione Way and I put our heads together to come up with this list of ten small tech companies from across the continent that have excited us in 2010.

And it is bound to trigger a response from other tech firms that already have their heads in computing clouds, including Google and Amazon.