Today is our birthday... Well it is hard to pinpoint the exact date so let's just say we are “One Year Old” This Week! And what better excuse to write a blog entry than our Year 1 anniversary! In reality, the company started many years ago with a few people spending hours planning, planning, and planning. And then taking the leap of faith!
So let's look at last year and sum it up with some numbers. What have we achieved in 1 year?
Website: 1
Mac: 1
Social Networking sites: 4
Blog posts: 6 - obviously room for improvement here!
Workdays in a typical BeatBabel week: 7
Languages currently spoken in the office: 8
Cups of green tea drank: 10
Companies we helped with their international endeavors: 16
Languages we dealt with: 32
Events and Conferences attended: 36
Countries our clients launched their product to: 40
Fans (all media added): 215 and counting
Tea breaks: 365 (yes, we work every day and yes we call them tea breaks even though we all drink coffee)
Times people have looked at us strangely when we talked about Localization: at least 400
Times people got the meaning without us explaining it: 20
Cups of coffee drank: 730 per person
Money spent on coffee: way too much!
Late nights in the office: forgot to keep track
Spam emails received: 5,734 (yikes!)
Visitors to our website so far: 38,540 and counting
Windows updates: at least a million
Marie's fits about Windows updates: more than a million
Days when we were thankful for our company and all the great people we work with: 365
Number of people worldwide happy to be addressed in their language... COUNTLESS!
Your BeatBabel Team, www.beatbabel.com
