They were having a discussion about poll tests administered to African-Americans to keep them from voting and it sounded pretty extreme to me. So, I went to the Library of Congress site and the next thing I new I was making a game.
AnnMaria
"If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real."
Matt Dalio
Since 7 Generation Games is now profitable, hearing this just made my day, and it is totally true. So much of what is broadcast by founders is having that $1 million contract or raising that $500,000 seed round. We have been there and that is very cool to be able to tell people. The fact is, though, no matter how much revenue you have or the size of your Series A, if at some point your income doesn't exceed your expenses, your company is going to die.
Paying technical (and other) debt: Non-sexy but happy times
Before I started my first company, before I earned a Ph.D. , I was a judo champion. I competed for 14 years - and I was pretty good at it. I won international competitions on every continent except for Antartica and Australia, and culminated by winning the world championships. Then I went off and did something completely different - was a professor teaching statistics, then a consultant doing statistical programming. Now I'm running a company, making educational games and, more importantly, creating a platform so anyone can make educational games.
3 Ways Becoming a World Champion is Like Making a ...
I keep reading that AI enables developers to work 30% ! 50%! 100%! faster. AI can replace junior developers! So far, I have found none of this to be true -until this weekend.
Finally! A use for AI: 15,000 images in a day
My granddaughter calls me "hilarifying" - a combination of hilarious and terrifying. Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter years ago, you probably found our Family Textbook hilarifying. In this blog post I hid on our site because it is not sufficiently professional, try to guess who said what.
One of those politically incorrect posts I have to hide
Whether you want the world to learn about the importance of turtles, cultural differences in bead work design or how to compute quartiles of temperature readings, you can make a game for it.
Think your game idea can’t happen? Think again.
Teaching with Primary Sources Network is a site we love because of the practical lessons, discussion and wealth of topics. It's only flaw is with SO much content you sometimes can get lost.
Sites we love: 3 reasons to check out Teaching with ...
In a recent conversation it became clear to me that I am not very good at explaining how 7 Generation Games is a profitable and growing business. That probably was made worse by the fact that we are re-releasing two of our apps using different technology to be able to […]
How we make money when content is not ours to ...
When you have six times as many people using your products you need to increase your staff, and quickly. The end result is more features, more support - but less sleep for us while we scale up.
User numbers, you and the fail whale
2 I've long thought that the true measure of how successful a person has been in life is how much people will miss them after they are gone. Willie was a great success, as a person and a friend. All of us at 7 Generation Games will miss him very much but I know I will miss him the most.
In Memory of My Friend, Willie Davis
5 As CEO of 7 Generation Games, I am proud and humbled to be able to announce that we have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a new learning platform, specifically aimed at helping meet the needs of Indigenous students and the educators working to serve these communities.
Announcing Growing Math Project to Meet Immediate Educational Needs of ...
Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]