Sarah Allen shared lessons learned bootstrapping Mightyverse, a DB of words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another.
Bootstrapping Mightyverse Talk at Sep-1 Breakfast in SF
Sarah Allen will talk about bootstrapping a mobile startup at the Bootstrapper’s Breakfast Wednesday September 1 at 9am at Boudin Bakery, Embarcadero 4 in San Francisco. Sarah is a serial entrepreneur who is using her software development consulting business, Blazing Cloud, to bootstrap a mobile-focused startup, Mightyverse.
The Mightyverse blog offers this overview of the service: “Mightyverse is for people interested in language. We are building a database of words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, including jokes, slang, lyrics, localisms, technical terms — anything you can imagine expressing.”
Mightyverse Beliefs:
- Language is your ticket to another world.
- We communicate more than just the words we speak.
- Speaking is translation of thought.
- All translation is subjective.
- We value individual expression.
- Wisdom is encoded in language.
- When we lose languages, we lose knowledge.
- No one owns language.
- There is no proper language.
- Language evolves.
- Language is more than grammar and vocabulary.
- Language is metaphor.
- To understand language, we must understand culture.
- It’s a sign of respect to speak someone else’s language.
- To communicate with anyone you meet should be a universal right.
Earlier Sarah was one of the co-founders of CoSA, The Company of Science & Art. The founders consulted part-time using their own software libraries to bootstrap a product business. This led to the creation of After Effects (acquired by Aldus, and subsequently Adobe).
When: 9am to 10:30am
Where: Boudin Bakery, Embarcadero 4