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Yesterday, I wrote about how SBIR awards are a highly competitive, but also amazing way to fund your startup’s R&D. (Speaking of funding startups, you should totally back our Kickstarter!) Today, I’m following that up with the biggest misconceptions I keep running across that will ensure that you do NOT […]

How NOT to Get A Grant

August 15, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you’re running a startup you have probably read pages upon Internet pages about how to get funded. It’s about pitching to VCs, seeking angel investors, getting into accelerators or crowdfunding, but I’m still surprised by how many people don’t know what SBIR awards are. They literally are the reason […]

Funding Your Startup: SBIR Grant Awards

August 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We rolled out a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming series AzTech Games on Thursday. Now, this marked out third Kickstarter campaign, so I knew what I was getting myself into. But we’re also further along as a company than we were the first two times, so it’s also very different […]

That Time I Emailed Everyone I’d Ever Met

August 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming bilingual games series, AzTech Games! (Back us please!) After weeks of planning and pulling together the video/determining rewards/lining up rollout/putting together the project page, now the real work begins. Doing a Kickstarter is kind of like having a baby. You spend and […]

Why We’re Doing Another Kickstarter

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Marisol Schultz - 7 Generation Games — When you’re not fluent in English and your teacher is trying her best to teach you but the most she can understand or say is “ Si, No, por favor , padres or tarea”, how do you learn? For some of us growing up in a Hispanic household means that […]

The Games I Wish I Had

July 19, 2017 in Educational Resources / Start-up Diaries by Marisol Schultz

If you’re not watching our 7 Generation Games TV YouTube account, you’re missing out! You can find videos of behind-the-scenes and the daily life of our office. If you have’t dedicated at least 10 minutes to our channel, which you should because what human being ISN’T on the internet nowadays, […]

Top 5 7GenGamesTV Videos

July 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Reality Show / Start-up Diaries by Irma Barcena

Maria — Excuse me if I don’t feel all empowered by this recent uproar about women in tech and the recognition of how poorly women are treated. As if this is some big revelation that people are suddenly having. As if it’s actually something that’s going to change now because now people are […]

Lots of Outrage, Little Action on Issues Women in Tech ...

July 7, 2017 in Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

ice cream cone — Well, maybe the word is “depressing” more than true, or a phrase, “true and depressing”. Lately, I’ve talked to four different people who had worked in educational technology start-ups that closed. All four of them were really smart, hard-working people who had the same problems: Getting enough people to know about their […]

True stories of start-up life

June 27, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Are you one of the 15,000 people interested in the intersection of education at technology headed to ISTE 2017 in San Antonio? If so, come say hi! We’re excited to be among the companies participating in this year’s Startup Pavilion. We’re looking forward to the opportunity to connect with A […]

Meet Us in the Startup Pavilion at ISTE 2017!

June 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Gonzalo hard at work — You have an idea for an app. Great. Now, how do you get it into Google Play so that your legions of would-be fans can play it? Lucky for you, we have a pile of helpful hints for you. This is the first of a LONG series of posts, so […]

Getting your app into Google Play: Basic Steps

June 23, 2017 in Code Talk / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

How many kids would love to have a dog of their very own? Yet, the world is full of reasons they can’t have one. Another family member is allergic. The landlord won’t allow it. The family moves too often. No one would be home to care for it. “Our […]

I was thinking of your child (and me) when I ...

June 23, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

kid waving — It was a no-brainer, really. Everyone knows that kids lose ground over the summer and kids from disadvantaged homes lose the most. So, why not put our technical skills to work and DO something about it? Two years ago, concerned about the “summer slide”, we came up with this idea […]

Welcome to Camp Don’t Get Dumber Over the Summer

June 20, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars