Christian Arno
Encyclopedia
Christian Arno is the founder and Managing Director of UK translation company Lingo24
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Arno established Lingo24 as a 22 year old Oxford University graduate in 2001. He won the Shell LiveWIRE ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2003. As of 2009, he is a finalist in the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category at the 2009 National Business Awards for Scotland
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Arno has also become a recognised business commentator, and has been enlisted by Brand Republic to give advice for businesses seeking to globalise, while the Sunday Times, Telegraph, and Financial Times have also used Arno and Lingo24 as a case study in a range of business features.
Arno has also contracted to work for Smarta, an online support platform for business owners and entrepreneurs backed by Deborah Meaden
from Dragons' Den
, to provide expert advice to entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses, and he was also part of a panel of experts for the Guardian newspaper's Live Q&A session: what can I do with a degree in languages?, in July 2010.
Later in 2010, Arno was commissioned to provide regular columns for a number of top online publications, such as Econsultancy, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch
and Brand Republic.
Lingo24
-History & Overview:Lingo24 was founded as an online translation company by Oxford University languages graduate Christian Arno, from his parents' Aberdeen home in September 2001...
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Arno established Lingo24 as a 22 year old Oxford University graduate in 2001. He won the Shell LiveWIRE ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2003. As of 2009, he is a finalist in the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category at the 2009 National Business Awards for Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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Arno has also become a recognised business commentator, and has been enlisted by Brand Republic to give advice for businesses seeking to globalise, while the Sunday Times, Telegraph, and Financial Times have also used Arno and Lingo24 as a case study in a range of business features.
Arno has also contracted to work for Smarta, an online support platform for business owners and entrepreneurs backed by Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden is a British business woman who ran a multi-million pound family holiday business, before completing a management buyout...
from Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den is a series of reality television programmes featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. The show originated in Japan as "Manē no Tora"...
, to provide expert advice to entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses, and he was also part of a panel of experts for the Guardian newspaper's Live Q&A session: what can I do with a degree in languages?, in July 2010.
Later in 2010, Arno was commissioned to provide regular columns for a number of top online publications, such as Econsultancy, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch
and Brand Republic.