Did you know that 7 Generation Games offers a game design curriculum? If your school licenses our games, you can get it for free, all you need to do is ask. If you talk to Maria or me, you probably don’t even need to ask because we can’t wait to […]
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Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 23, 2015 “Truth, Justice and the American Way” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. My not-yet-new-year’s resolution was that I should not focus on business […]
Throwback Thursday: Truth, Justice and the American Way
There’s a comic where the boss tells an engineer to “give the customers what they want” and the engineer says, “They want better products, for free.” The boss promptly scraps that give-the-customers-what-they-want nonsense. Almost from the first moment we produced Spirit Lake and Fish Lake people have been asking us, […]
Fish Lake: For your iPad and free
After a session on getting technology into Latin American organizations convinced me I needed to know more about how Chilean schools operate, I scheduled interviews with several teachers. To say that their responses were eye-opening would be an understatement. The first person I interviewed was an eighth-grade teacher and the […]
You have HOW MANY students? Discussions with Chilean teachers
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 30, 2015 “What If You Took the Other Fork in the Road?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I usually only read poetry when threatened, […]
Throwback Thursday: What If You Took the Other Fork in ...
If you listen to any start-up pitches, you hear about the $XX BILLION DOLLAR global market. When we were in an accelerator program, we were advised to “use global numbers to make your market look bigger”. There is just one problem there. Nearly all of those start-ups throwing out figures […]
The Global Market Ain’t All That Easy
Ogden Nash said, “Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home If the place you’re at Is your habitat You’re a foreigner, say, in Rome.” As a general rule, Americans take one of two different views about foreign countries, and, in my experience, both of these views are […]
Am I Crazy to Be Doing Business in a Foreign ...
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 7, 2015 “The Value of Mean Parents” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This morning, my sister and her lovely daughter took Julia to the […]
Throwback Thursday: The Value of Mean Parents
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 23, 2014 “What I Learned About Relationships from Judo” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Last time, I wrote about what I learned about business from […]
Throwback Thursday: What I Learned About Relationships from Judo
It’s not often that a single presentation has a significant impact in how you do business, but the discussion on sales in Latin America by Nicolas Elizarraga, did just that. He said that when he started selling information technology to corporations he started out by calling dozens of successful sales people […]
The Most Valuable Thing I Learned in Chile
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from July 21, 2016 “Be an anti-hoarder” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Years ago, I said to The Invisible Developer, “Every month, I go through this house, […]
Throwback Thursday: Be an anti-hoarder
1 Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 13, 2016 “Four daughters, a dolphin suit and a caged weasel” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I was listening to the Moth podcast today […]