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Yesterday, I wrote about how SBIR awards are a highly competitive, but also amazing way to fund your startup’s R&D. (Speaking of funding startups, you should totally back our Kickstarter!) Today, I’m following that up with the biggest misconceptions I keep running across that will ensure that you do NOT […]

How NOT to Get A Grant

August 15, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you’re running a startup you have probably read pages upon Internet pages about how to get funded. It’s about pitching to VCs, seeking angel investors, getting into accelerators or crowdfunding, but I’m still surprised by how many people don’t know what SBIR awards are. They literally are the reason […]

Funding Your Startup: SBIR Grant Awards

August 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We rolled out a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming series AzTech Games on Thursday. Now, this marked out third Kickstarter campaign, so I knew what I was getting myself into. But we’re also further along as a company than we were the first two times, so it’s also very different […]

That Time I Emailed Everyone I’d Ever Met

August 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it is a video titled “Fish Division – Compare Unlike Denominators”. This video teaches you how to compare unlike denominators through 5 steps of solving a fishing problem. To view the video, click the […]

Freebie Friday: Fish Lake – Fish Division

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

tattoed Maya with pyramid in background — Have you ever had something heavy brought into your house on a trolley? (That’s the name of the cart with wheels used for, well, carting in and out, heavy stuff.) Have you ever used curb cuts when you are crossing the street pushing a baby stroller? Have you ever walked […]

Universal design: Wheelchair ramps and bilingual games

August 11, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

basketball court — We launched our Kickstarter campaign for our bilingual AzTech Games series yesterday – hitting 13% of our goal in the first 12 hours – which was amazing! Of course, we still have a long way to go, and part of the reason why we decided to do a Kickstarter wasn’t […]

An Introduction to AzTech Games

August 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from June 6, 2016 “Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s been a good week for the darling daughters. The Spoiled […]

Throwback Thursday: Success in Parenting Isn’t What You Think

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming bilingual games series, AzTech Games! (Back us please!) After weeks of planning and pulling together the video/determining rewards/lining up rollout/putting together the project page, now the real work begins. Doing a Kickstarter is kind of like having a baby. You spend and […]

Why We’re Doing Another Kickstarter

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you haven’t read, seen or heard about the latest hand-wringing over the lack of diversity in tech, just wait for the next one. It goes like this: Someone at some huge tech company does something sexist/ racist There is a lot of hand-wringing/ tweeting over how tech is predominantly […]