You quit your job with $30,000 and an idea. Pick a market, decide how to build, set a price and choose who to hire. Every month brings customers, competitors and investors. Most startups die because the money runs out before the product finds its people. Yours doesn’t have to.
4 monthsto launch and find first customers
+8 monthsoptional, to month 12
3 marketssmall business, consumer or developers
About this simulation
Difficulty
AdvancedHigh risk. Debt, leverage, crises and big systems. Many runs end early.
Length
4 months + 8 more, about 10 minutes for the first part
Category
Run a business
You decide
Product, hiring, runway, funding
How it plays
Month 1 · Day one — Set up your startup
Month 2 · Launch — Launch and first customers
Month 3 · Reality — Money, people and code
Month 4 · The first checkpoint — Funding and focus
After the debrief, “Keep going — to month 12” continues the run with calendar events, new challenges and opportunities that build on what you chose earlier. Every decision page has a live preview that shows what your picks do to the numbers before you lock them in.
What you get at the end
A debrief with your outcome, charts of where the money went, your biggest mistake and roughly what it cost, and a full report you can copy or save as a PDF. Everything runs in your browser: no sign-up, nothing to install.