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A Lesson The most useful lesson I learned this year is this – you can’t be excellent in your spare time. I should know. I tried it. Up until this month, along with running 7 Generation Games, I was working as a statistical consultant, chair of a non-profit board and […]

Take the Plunge into Your Business

March 19, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from July 9, 2013,“How to succeed at everything” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. It all comes down to one word: Perseverance. Yesterday was the first time I got to read my […]

Throwback Thursday: How to succeed at everything

March 12, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged How to Succeed at Everything / Perseverance / Success by AnnMaria De Mars

Stacy & Nicole from URL Radio visit with Dr. AnnMaria DeMars founder of 7 Generation Games, 1st American to win a Judo world title, author of “Winning On The Ground”, blogger, successful consultant, mother to four daughters one of which is the UFC World Champion, Ronda Rousey. Check out the […]

Stacy & Nicole from URL Radio visit with Dr. AnnMaria ...

March 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Women in Tech tagged Math Games / North Dakota / Stacy and Nicole / URL Radio / Video Games by admin

Exercise bike — You may have heard that you can’t do it all. If you’re working at a start-up, it is going to suck up your whole life into this black hole for time. You’re going to get fat. You’ll forget everything that doesn’t relate to making a robot shopper, or ecommerce site […]

Start-up life doesn’t have to make you fat

March 8, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

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

Filling out accelerator applications, a common question is, “What makes your company different?” I think they want us to say something along the lines of “We make robots that can manufacture anything, including themselves. We promise they will never turn on us and destroy humanity, or at least not until […]

No One Wants to Be Dumb – and why being ...

March 3, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from Dr. AnnMaria De Mars. This blog was originally posted on June 7, 2013 on “Jealousy is Toxic, Honesty is Good and other things I’ve learned in (almost) 55 years” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the […]

TBT: Jealousy is Toxic, Honesty is Good and other things ...

February 26, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Criticism / Honesty / Jealousy by AnnMaria De Mars

old schoolhouse — “That’s academic.” is a term of dismissal. It means that the argument you just raised has no practical importance. There may be times when that aspersion is true (see my next post). It is also true that work life in general, including at start-ups , is closer to school than […]

Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a Start-up

February 25, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — I know that Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but there is still a lot in a name. It is our identity, our first impression when someone “meets” us in print. There’s a reason that no one names their baby “Doofus”. Our big problem […]

What’s in a name?

February 22, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from December 4, 2013,“The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. One of the questions I get asked a lot is “How do you get so […]

Throwback Thursday- The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered

February 19, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria De Mars / multi-tasking / productivity / programming by AnnMaria De Mars

… our next game is for you. Sam and Angie are two regular people, so regular that when they decide to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors and walk half-way across the continent, almost everyone thinks they will fail, probably in a spectacularly tragic fashion. Who do they think […]

If you’ve ever wanted to prove everyone wrong …

February 18, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

snakes — I have taught judo since I was 13 years old when the coach arranged for me to pay my YMCA membership by helping to teach the beginning judo class. I thought about this recently when I was asked for the 7,823rd time “What age are your games appropriate for?” It’s […]

Push-ups for Your Brain

February 14, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars