Dan Berges

I’m a Madrid-born, NYC-based entrepreneur with a background in arts, education, and computer programming. I build and develop sustainable growth models for small businesses based on complex systems that promote logistical efficiency and customer retention.

I've been featured in El País, El Mundo, and El Nacional. I was also included in Forbes España's Los 100 más creativos en el mundo de los negocios 2023.

Professional Bio

Dan Berges is a Spanish entrepreneur, teacher, author, programmer, and musician based in NYC. He is the Managing Director of Berges Institute. He also hosts the podcast Sábado a la noche con Dan Berges and leads the folk trio Pammi Zacharia. Dan is one of the authors of The Graf Method for Spanish Language, and has also published articles for Forbes and San Diego Times.

Work

Berges Institute is a Spanish online language school for adults. Berges was founded in 2013 by Dan Berges and Vanessa Montilla, and is still managed by the founding team.

Dwight is a task management solution based on Eisenhower's Box with a simple, clean interface. It lets you classify your to-do items as urgent and important, urgent but not important, important but not urgent, or not urgent and not important.

Quality audio samples written and performed by professional musicians and mixed and processed in-house at the Smooth Samples studios.

Articles

Published on HackerNoon on August 6, 2023

Published on Times of San Diego on June 16, 2023

Published on SmartBrief on April 25, 2023

Published on Forbes on September 30, 2019

Published on MultiLingual on January 9, 2019

Published on Forbes on January 2, 2019

Books

Spanish for Absolute Beginners

The Past Tense and Other Topics

The Imperfect Tense

Object Pronouns, Future Tense and Verb Haber

Subjunctive, Conditional and Imperative

Fiction

Short stories, 2014 - 2017

Courses

Published on Skillshare in May 2022

Published on Skillshare in December 2021

Published on Skillshare in January 2022

Podcasts

An episode of Brains Byte Back, by The Sociable

It's in Spanish!

Kevin interviews Berklee alumni who don't work in the music industry.

Music

With Greg Glassman & Yuka Tadano.

Mostly improvised.

My alter ego Compadrito made it.

Play it loud.