Founders Corner

Day-to-day life in founding a start up

Create Studio app on two monitors and lunch on my messy desk
"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

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Page from a wiki showing a game path
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 ...

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We are thrilled to announce that 7 Generation Games was selected as one of NewSchools Venture Fund’s 2022 Learning Solutions grantees! We’re joining a national cohort of organizations receiving funding and support from NewSchools Venture Fund to create or expand on innovative ways to make literacy instruction more effective for […]

7 Generation Games Selected One of NSVF’s 2022 Learning Solutions ...

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South Summit, a platform to accelerate innovation through strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem at an international level, publishes a blog by our very own Maria Burns Ortiz. This past summer, Maria was invited to attend South Summit in Madrid as a speaker for the sessions, “Education: A Virtuous Circle of Continuous […]

South Summit Blog on Inclusive EdTech by Maria

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