Mike Germano on Learning from a Middle East Office Expansion

In Chapter 5 of 20 in his 2013 Capture Your Flag interview, Carrot Creative social media agency CEO Mike Germano answers "What Did You Learn From Expanding Your Business Into the Middle East?"  After speaking in the Middle East before the Arab Spring in 2011, Germano and his team opened an office there in 2012.  The experience teaches him what it means to do business in new locations and the challenges doing business in different cultures can present.

Mike Germano is co-founder and CEO of DUMBO Brooklyn-based social media agency Carrot Creative.  Previously, Germano ran for and was elected to public office in Connecticut.  He is a graduate of Quinnipiac University.