Starting a new job can be scary. When I started here last week I did not know what to expect, but I knew I had no reason to be scared! Here are five things I have learned so far in my first week as the new intern. 1. When you […]
Start-up Diaries
As your social media feeds have likely informed you, it’s back-to-school season. Dozens of photos of happy children heading off to their first days of a new school year, smiling and – for those who have on top of it parents (i.e. not my children) – holding cute message boards […]
Startup Lessons from Children’s Literature: The Little Red Hen
3 A lot of people say they are a workaholic but they actually work for half an hour, check Facebook for half an hour, work for another half-hour, fix themselves a snack, and so on. Their 12- 14 hour work day is more like a 6 or 7 hours of actual […]
Testing a theory that you don’t have to die at ...
Hello everyone! My name is Sabrena, and I am the new intern here at 7 Generation Games. I’m a senior at UCLA studying English and Literature and the Environment. I joined the team because I have an interest in marketing and education. I just finished a 5-week teaching fellowship so […]
Welcome to the New Intern Diaries!
You’d certainly hope after seven months in Chile I would have learned something, right? In fact, I think I’ve gained both professionally and personally. Life is lived forwards but understood backwards. For example, I never knew when I was training for the world championships that it would prepare me for […]
What did I learn in Chile?
The non-SEO friendly, but more accurately reflective title of this blog should actually be: Why I believe we can change the world and other random thoughts from a red-eye and a double connection. Now, I am not usually an overthinker. That fact is something I view as an asset, especially […]
Final Answer: Why I Believe It’s Possible to Change the ...
1 If you are planning on coming to Chile for more than a week and you are going somewhere besides the Intercontinental Hotel and the U.S. Embassy, odds are, you’ll be meeting and working with some Chileans. If you had been paying attention to this blog, you would be studying Spanish […]
Start-up Diaries, Santiago Edition> Chileans are Chill
I speak at conferences around the country, have a hundred meetings a year with clients, teachers, students and investors, so when I say that I’m an introvert, people often look at me skeptically. The fact is that I was always very much of a loner when I was younger. Right […]
Startup Life as an Introvert or Yes, I’d Love to ...
After a session on getting technology into Latin American organizations convinced me I needed to know more about how Chilean schools operate, I scheduled interviews with several teachers. To say that their responses were eye-opening would be an understatement. The first person I interviewed was an eighth-grade teacher and the […]
You have HOW MANY students? Discussions with Chilean teachers
If you listen to any start-up pitches, you hear about the $XX BILLION DOLLAR global market. When we were in an accelerator program, we were advised to “use global numbers to make your market look bigger”. There is just one problem there. Nearly all of those start-ups throwing out figures […]
The Global Market Ain’t All That Easy
Ogden Nash said, “Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home If the place you’re at Is your habitat You’re a foreigner, say, in Rome.” As a general rule, Americans take one of two different views about foreign countries, and, in my experience, both of these views are […]
Am I Crazy to Be Doing Business in a Foreign ...
It’s not often that a single presentation has a significant impact in how you do business, but the discussion on sales in Latin America by Nicolas Elizarraga, did just that. He said that when he started selling information technology to corporations he started out by calling dozens of successful sales people […]