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Year 7: Developing the company our way! *time to say goodbye We started year 7 with a big goodbye. Some say that cutting off your first business partners is the natural way to grow a business. Why? Because when you start you are still at the development phase. You take what you can and, at the same time, give away much more than you are ready to give at later stages of company development. So e.g., at the beginning of the business you are prepared, willing, even desperate to take any job, the smallest even any time of day or night. Once your company has developed, this initial eagerness not only disappears but even could harm your business! As you grow, you hope for more clients, bigger jobs, and you need to stay sane so you cannot keep yourself busy on Sunday at 23:00 with a job of a peanut

Year 6: CATs and Foxes 2018 was a real deal breaker for us in taming CATs J. Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools are software that aid linguists in the production of language translation. We learned our first CAT tool during 2017 at the ATC conference in London. In 2018, equipped with knowledge with the partnership with SmartCat we were ready to introduce this economic and user friendly CAT to the Polish market. We presented talks on LocWorld and Konferencja Tłumaczy. At the time (and to a certain extent today) it provided optimum efficiency, pace, unification, all you can dream of. However…cats might not understand foxes…let me tell you the story of our biggest most upsetting business failure. We started working with a prestigious client, with daily demanding job – not a barrier for us! It involved working with linguists around the world, including in Australia, 4 AM, no problem! With

Year 5: Divide and conquer With 2 different, but related workflows running (translations and PhD editing) the time came to work on right division into two separate business entities. Legal formalities is only one first step, what comes next is separation of employees, clients and brands. The time to recruit specialized PMs who understands perfectly the requirements of academics, to inform clients about change of provider,  get a new domain, website etc. Actually it is a hella lotta work. We got there with a lot of internal input- Agata, our first employee kept responsibilities over both companies, while others were taking sides. Magda, senior PM in handling translations designed a beautiful logo for MD Online that serves us to today while Mark took to design of eCORRECTOR logo for scientific proofreading arm of the company based in UK. At this stage of growth we needed to incorporate professional management software. Our