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LUDMILAGolovine
Founder, President & CEO, MasterWord
By Katia Hadjiyska
iF Magazine Contributing Reporter
/ EnCourage Group Owner
Katia: How
was MasterWord
founded and how
do you support
Houston’s international community
today?
Ludmila: MasterWord started as one of
my homework assignments in the inaugural
class in entrepreneurship at the University
of Houston, currently
known as the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship.
The company started as
an idea to serve businesses
that work internationally
by providing language support and allowing companies
to communicate. Today MasterWord supports Houston’s
international community by
providing interpretation, translation, and localization services.
We allow companies and their
clients to communicate with
each other and help them enter
foreign markets to do business
where other languages are spoken.
Houston is a very international
city, in fact the most multicultural
city in the United States today, according to the Kinder Institute. We
have 98 consular corps representatives, which means that Houston does
a lot of international business. One
in four people living in Houston was
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