French blogger and entrepreneur Loic Le Meur (How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million):
If you asked me to name only one difference between Europe and the US it would be the positive attitude that floats constantly around here [in the US]. It is the “how can I help” by default. Trust is by default. You can probably lose it fast but you have it much faster than in Europe where the attitude is more suspicious, more negative. Each time I launched something in Europe I started by getting the criticism and listening people who would explain me why I would fail. Here [in the US] I have troubles counting how many people offer their help.
Quite true.
