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AnnMaria

This category is for posts written by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars.

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 31, 2011 “Why Higher Education is the Next Bubble” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I got married, I owned two houses. I sold both, using the money to […]

Throwback Thursday: Why Higher Education Is The Next Bubble

January 28, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Debt / education / Higher Education Bubble / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Julia is shocked — We are very fortunate to have volunteers who assist us with game testing, advice on game design, and sometimes I am sure they wonder to themselves. Are you people stupid or what? I gave you these great ideas three weeks ago and you still haven’t done hardly a thing! You […]

Are you dumb or what? What.

January 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

little kid in a business suit — I was wrong. Like many people, I thought teachers objected to standardized testing because it highlighted their inadequacies and held accountable those who weren’t doing their jobs. Of course, if you were one of those slacking government workers, you wouldn’t want anyone pointing out that you were falling down on […]

The Teachers Are All Right

January 24, 2016 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Having a startup is a lot like being a mom. There are all kinds of people telling you that you’re doing it wrong, not doing enough, if you ONLY spent 30 minutes a day reading to your child, having dinner with them, exercising, out in nature, checking their homework, discussing […]

99 Start-up Tasks on the Wall

January 22, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 5, 2013 “Advice to Young People” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Since all young people obviously need advice from me, here is four minutes of it. Or, in one word: […]

Throwback Thursday: Advice to Young People

January 21, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Throwback Thursday / Young People by Erick Salomon

AnnMaria on a mountain — There is one thing every startup needs to fear the most, and it is not that Google or Microsoft will come out with a competing product, that you’ll run out of money before you polish your prototype, that your technical co-founder will chuck it all to go hiking in the […]

What Every Startup Fears Most

January 20, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Dancing President — Why did I just drop and do 25 push-ups at 2 a.m. ? Why were Maria and I working on a grant proposal for Small Business Innovation Research until past 1 a.m. while her oldest child fell asleep on my couch? Both questions have the same answer, one I learned […]

The Not-So-Secrets to Success

January 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 27, 2011 “The Rumors of Our Sucking at Math Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Question authority. Whenever I hear authoritative statements made that don’t fit […]

Throwback Thursday: The Rumors Of Our Sucking At Math Have ...

January 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Math / Testing / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Unicorn — Along with running a game company, I teach, both judo and statistics. In neither my judo classes nor my courses in multivariate statistics, epidemiology or quantitative data analysis does anyone ever ask “Isn’t there a way of doing this without effort? Could we possibly learn judo without doing any actual […]

Wanted: Magical Math Unicorn

January 11, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 19, 2012 “Learning From The Mistakes of Others” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Three times within a very short period I have seen technology offerings that I thought were […]

Throwback Thursday: Learning From The Mistakes Of Others

January 7, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Lessons / Mistakes / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

woman picking fruit — It might seem funny writing about this today when the Federal Trade Commission recently slapped Lumosity with a $50 million fine for claiming its games make you brighter. In a bit of bright news for Lumosity, the FTC did settle with them for $2 million. You might think I […]

How Games Can Really Make You Smarter

January 6, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 27, 2012 “Business Ideas Sparked By Twitter” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. COMPLETELY RANDOM THOUGHTS on business sparked by twitter…. I live just south of Malibu, a city filled with […]

Throwback Thursday: Business Ideas Sparked By Twitter

December 31, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Business / Throwback Thursday / Twitter by Erick Salomon