2 AnnMaria was stateside for the SAS® Global Forum 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Here is her breakout session “Bricolage: My Autobiography, With SAS® Procedures” from Tuesday April 10th, 2018.
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I keep getting messages from people asking how is it going in Chile. It’s the second-most common question right after, “Why haven’t you answered my email / phone call / carrier pigeon?” The answer to both of these is that Chile is great in many ways but conducting business in […]
I’m glad I’m Writing this Blog in English
If you’ve been following the Start-up Diaries, Chilean Edition, you’ve read about my family’s desire to re-brand our company in Latin America under the name 7 Llamas Games. Further, you’ve noted our dreams being crushed by llama-hating colleagues in Start-up Chile. In the end, we took the 11 names our […]
Our new name: Introducing… Strong Mind Studios !
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 1, 2016 “Eight Things My Mom Did Right” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. One thing we learn to do as we get older is […]
Throwback Thursday: Eight Things My Mom Did Right
1 How it went when we tried to come up with a name for our Latin American subsidiary
What’s in a name? Apparently not llamas
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 28, 2016 “Random facts about me you may not know” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s a Sunday afternoon, so I thought I would […]
Throwback Thursday: Random facts about me you may not know
Actually, I expected that Chile would be an entirely different country from the U.S. but I wouldn’t have known that from the not-so-helpful advice from many of my fellow Americans. As a public service, let me tell you that these two pearls of wisdom I heard over and over before […]
Turns out, Chile is a foreign country. Who knew?
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 5, 2016 “Thank God I Did Sports Now That I Run a Startup” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I spent 14 years of my […]
Throwback Thursday: Thank God I Did Sports Now That I ...
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 12, 2016 “More Than Ordinary” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. What’s your podcast about? That’s a question we’ve gotten from everyone from family members […]
Throwback Thursday: More Than Ordinary
I’m going to presume you read I’m learning a Gang of S$#@ in Chile, Part 1 so I won’t repeat the story. As I have said multiple times now, one of the best things about Start-up Chile is the other companies. It’s not that the staff aren’t good – but […]
I’m Learning a Gang More S#$% in Start-up Chile: Part ...
Years ago, I attended a talk by Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries (it’s a wonderful charity, by the way, check them out) and he mentioned one of the homies he’d gotten a job in an office sending him a fax that said, “Thank you so much, G, for […]
I’m Learning a Gang of S#@$ in Start-up Chile
3 Since several people have asked the same questions about the parenting book Maria and I wrote, and about our Family Textbook. I thought I’d answer them all at once in a blog post. What’s the name of your book? Parenting Like I Know What I’m Doing. We thought we might […]