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For Small Businesses, Big World Beckons

Husband-and-wife business partners Matt and Rene Greff are on track to open the first out-of-state branch of their Michigan brewpub later this year–in Bangalore, India.
[MINIMULTi_JUMP1] Brian Widdis for the Wall Street Journal MINIMULTI

Matt and Rene Greff, at right, plan to open a brewpub in Bangalore.

At Peter Frykman’s Palo Alto, Calif., irrigation-equipment company, seven of the 20 employees are located outside the U.S., in China and India, while Gangesh Ganesan’s communications-chip firm, in San Jose, has about a quarter of its staffers in Istanbul, and others in Tokyo and Taipei.

While big companies have been the trailblazers of globalization, a growing number of relatively small businesses are following in their footsteps. Like their larger counterparts, they are drawn by new markets that are often growing much faster than those at home.

By JUSTIN LAHART

Full Story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703951704576092010276714424.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_smallbusiness

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