Barely three years had passed since Language I/O's founding (www.languageio.com), yet they had a reached a position of turning down some of the world's most recognizable corporations as clients, to continue growing the business with the laser focus they started with. Customer satisfaction remained a top priority and management was operating conservatively, avoiding excessively fast expansion. However, Language I/O's co-founders still had concerns about the future. While they felt confident in the quality of the software products combined with the language translation services, incoming capital and revenues would need to support existing operations and further expansion