Bear in mind you don't have to "be acquired" to do well. You can, more easily, sell technology, domains, customers, information, or other business assets you produce to US (or non-US) companies.<p>Further, even if you don't live in the US, your sites can target US users just as any US site can. If you need to charge money, you'll need to figure out a billing system to accept $, but there are few compelling reasons to be in the US merely to serve users there (though depending on how you do it, the IRS may think otherwise).<p>All that said, if you look at and learn from American businesses <i>and</i> you have a good feel for your local market (or the Arabic market in general), you might even have a position most of us would envy! You can more easily "take" ideas that have been proven in the West and do an Arabic twist on them (I don't know about the Arabic world, but this tactic is common in non English speaking European countries).