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If you are serious about making your start-up a success, make that your sole focus. Don’t do anything else. Don’t write a book. Don’t teach a class. Don’t take a consulting contract. Don’t volunteer for a board. The biggest mistake I made last year was doing all of those things. […]

The Biggest Mistake I Made Last Year

March 4, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Join 7 Generation Games and Armbar Nation on February 28, 2015 for our tweetup in LA before Ronda Rousey’s fight! We will all be meeting up at Tom’s Urban which is directly across the street from the Staples Center from 2-4pm. We can hardly believe that this will be our 6th tweetup that […]

Join us for the Rowdy UFC 184 tweetup in LA ...

February 12, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Events / Start-up Diaries tagged Autograph / Gene Le Bell / Ronda Rousey / tweetup / UFC 184 / UFC 184 Tweetup by admin

Fish Lake — At long last — you’ve been hearing about it and now it’s here. Fish Lake, the second in our series of games that make you smarter, is now commercially available. If you liked Spirit Lake, you are going to LOVE Fish Lake. It’s not just for kids. Spear some fish. Build […]

Fish Lake: Our second game is now commercially available!

February 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries tagged Fish Lake Release by admin

Last week I wrote a blog about Expecting the Unexpected and the importance of being prepared for any obstacle that comes your way. The 7 Generation Games team was 1,772 miles from home, had no electricity, internet, or cell phone service, but we were still able to host a successful training session for teachers […]

7 Generation Games North Dakota Tour By Numbers

February 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Fish Lake / North Dakota by admin

Last week, 7 Generation Games flew to North Dakota to install our educational video games in five schools on two reservations. AnnMaria De Mars, CEO of 7 Generation Games, has explained MANY times the importance of being prepared for any situation because there are frequently situations that occur where technology just doesn’t […]

Expect the Unexpected

February 3, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Always Be Prepared / Doomsday Prepper / educational video games / Indian Reservation / Native American / North Dakota by admin

The children are heading back to school, you’re thinking about putting away the decorations, swearing you really will send out Christmas cards next year. To finish off the season, here is our annual holiday letter, sent when we all have a moment to get a cup of coffee and catch […]

A Christmas Letter from 7 Generation Games

January 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Game Improvements / Spirit Lake by AnnMaria De Mars

coding — In my early twenties, I was working at Fortune 50 company and happened to be on the same flight with one of the senior vice-presidents. They had over-booked first class, so he got bumped and ended up sitting next to me. Never one to miss an opportunity, I asked him […]

My Every Day of Code

December 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

woods — If you have never experienced the pleasure of having an idea that won’t leave you alone turn into reality, well, you have my sympathy. Today was the first day of working on our newest game. It’s so new it doesn’t have a name yet. We are going with a working […]

Every project has a first minute

December 17, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Unicorn — Making math awesome is harder than it looks. Before anyone jumps in to tell me that I have a charmed life, let me admit that I know that. I get to work with brilliant developers and designers, gifted and dedicated teachers and bright, fun kids. I get to do it all […]

It’s not all unicorns in start-up world

December 4, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I attended an event the other night where, as it does from time to time, the topic of women founders came up. One of the speakers, a very nice and unquestionably successful investor, mentioned that he had just closed his first deal with a female-led company. He noted that out […]

How “Easy” It Is For Women-Led Startups To Get Funding

November 14, 2014 in Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 15 2012 on, “Start-up truisms that are, well, true” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. The very first month I started this blog, four years ago, I wrote a short […]

Throwback Thursday: Start-up truisms that are, well, true

November 6, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries tagged entrepreneur / startup by AnnMaria De Mars

Earlier this month I attended a Tech Coast Venture Network event on Crowfunding that was hosted by Howard Leonhardt. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this event, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to go listen to some pointers from someone who has raised over $145 million to crowdfund new inventions and startups […]

How to Succeed at Reaching Your Crowdfunding Goal

October 31, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged crowdfunding / entrepreneur / Lenard Leonhardt / successful businesses by admin