U.S. Entrepreneurs Need A 'True Global Mindset' huffingtonpost.com
Excerpt - It's not as if Americans live in a bubble. Many of our startups have immigrant founders, as my friend Vivek Wadhwa points out, who can leverage contacts in their countries of origin. Many software and Internet-based firms, in particular, go global early. Increasing numbers of young Americans go abroad -- to study, to do research or charitable work, or just to travel -- and they have online friends in other countries from childhood. You could say the new generation is growing up more global than any in the country's past.
The challenge is to build on this international exposure and turn it into new globally oriented businesses across multiple industries. And for that we'll need to stretch ourselves and learn to have a global mindset in all aspects of new-firm formation.