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Advice for your app project
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With over 10 years experience as a social entrepreneur and over 15 years as a web app developer, I can hopefully help you out!
Whether it be defining a project’s strategy, working out the best way to pitch or obtain funding, designing the features and architecture, building and launching the website or app, or setting up the servers. On top of my core technical skills, I’ve been in charge of everything from product design to project management, pitching to fundraising, hiring to project management, community building to customer service, branding to PR to social media, and even marketing and sales when that couldn’t be avoided…
Training & Qualifications
I’m a developer and social entrepreneur. I enjoy hacking things to find what makes them tick, and occasionally inventing things. I’ve had the pleasure of building a lot of fun things, including: Podemus, a podcasting platform (back in 2005); LeLab.TV, a video platform (which I also produced video content for, including a collaboration with The Yes Men); and currently, GetAcross, a nonprofit project helping refugees communicate across language barriers thanks to volunteer interpreters.
I was also recently co-founder/CTO of Babelverse – the universal translator for spoken communication, powered by polyglots around the world – a revolutionary global startup. I presented Babelverse at dozens of international conferences and various events, won some awards (TechCrunch, LeWeb, TheNextWeb, etc), and got plenty of press coverage (CNBC, FastCompany, etc). We received seed funding from 500 Startups and SV Angel.
Besides advising many friends and people who have reached out for help, I also have been a mentor at multiple hackathons, accelerator programmes and Startup Weekend events around the world.
Availability & Preferences
You can schedule a time to chat via: https://calendly.com/mayel/chat/
