Crowdsourcing is distributed problem solving. You take one task (or many smaller ones) and spread it across a crowd of hundreds to thousands to solve. In our case, it’s translation, but you can also use a crowd for reviews, design, research… nearly anything. You’ll find crowds these days almost e...

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If my travel schedule was any indication, the conference season was in full swing in October. Each week was spent either absorbing new information or speaking at conferences (two in the translation industry and three in technology). Jessica did a great recap on our observations from the translati...

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Despite being more connected than ever before, we only get a taste of the massive volume of multilingual content coming from every corner of the globe. For businesses, the internet allows for an immediate international presence and low-cost distribution, but without scalable, quality translation,...

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At Gengo, we’re often approached by companies looking to globalize their websites or products for the first time. In our earlier white papers, we looked in detail at what startups and mid-sized businesses should consider before entering global markets. For companies preparing internally for the g...

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In his post about the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) Leadership Forum in Dublin, Gengo’s co-founder and CEO Matt Romaine mentions that a “recurring theme was a shifting expectation and definition of “quality”. Close to that time, many of us also read Nataly Kelly’s Huffpost article ab...

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We all carry a few regrets from college, with “excess” or “not enough” being the common words to describe them. My biggest regret by far (okay, second biggest) was missing out on the chance to intern for a startup. Fortunately, life has a funny way of throwing up second chances. Seven years after...

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