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
Read more →Reports from PCI Days – meeting the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry We had the opportunity to participate in one of the most notable events for suppliers from the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry – PCI Days, which took place yesterday in Warsaw. It was extremely inspiring and allowed us to better understand how wide and dynamic the world of pharma and cosmetics is. We were immediately attracted to many stands, each presenting unique products and innovative solutions. We couldn’t wait to talk to experts in these fields and learn more about their offers. Admittedly, we had many stimulating conversations that gave us valuable information and opened up new perspectives. One of the topics recurring during our discussions was the importance of translation quality in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. The experts emphasized that precise translation of documents, manuals and product labels is crucial. Any error in translation may prove both costly
Read more →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
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