🏙️ The Business School

Entrepreneurship Simulation — track your team's performance in real time

📌 Your role guide

    Capital
    0 £
    starting £10,000
    Market share
    0%
    of all deals
    Loans
    0
    active
    Next Step
    Create your first product in the Marketplace to start earning revenue.
    Recent Activity
    All players in real time

    🛒 Marketplace

    Browse products from other firms. Payment transfers automatically.

    Your balance 0 £

    📌 Marketplace Rules

    • All firms trade with each other — that's the competitive core
    • Press Buy — funds transfer instantly to the seller, visible to all
    • You cannot buy your own products
    • List your own products from Launch Product

    💼 Launch Product or Service

    List it here — other firms can buy from you.

    💡 Selling Tips

    • Lead with the value to the buyer — not just a description
    • Price confidently — you can always negotiate
    • Use the examples below — click to auto-fill the form
    • List multiple products — more listings mean more revenue opportunities

    ✨ New Listing

    Role-specific examples
    Click → auto-fills the form
    Your listings

    🧠 Strategy: Marketing & R&D

    Run one campaign per phase and one permanent R&D investment per game.

    📣 Marketing Campaigns

    • Each firm can run one campaign per phase (max 3 per game).
    • Any team member can launch campaigns. No CEO approval required.
    • Each launch resolves after a 10-second spinner.

    🔬 R&D Investments

    • Each firm can make one R&D investment per game.
    • The selected R&D effect stays active for the rest of the game.

    🤝 Chat & Boardroom Deals

    Agree deals in the chat, practise in the exercises. Correct answer = +£500 bonus added to your balance.

    💬 How to negotiate

    • All channel — public announcements, market your product
    • Deals — type "OFFER: service £1500" and agree a price
    • Your Team channel — private strategy discussion
    • Agree in Chat → buy from the Marketplace
    💬 Live Chat
    LIVE
    💡 In the Deals channel: type "OFFER: product £1500"
    Boardroom Deal exercises
    Correct answer = +£500 added to your balance

    🏦 Capital & Loans

    Draw down a facility to fund growth — interest accrues until repaid.

    Available loans
    Your active loans

    📚 What this teaches you

    • Leverage — bigger investment with borrowed capital
    • Interest rate — the cost of money over time
    • Cash flow — can you actually repay it?
    • Risk — debt amplifies losses just as much as it accelerates gains

    📈 Investments

    Property and equities — passive returns each phase.

    💡 Investing basics

    • Property — stable rental yield, significant capital requirement
    • Equities — higher potential return, greater volatility
    • Diversification — don't concentrate all capital in a single asset
    • The teacher distributes returns when advancing to the next phase
    🏘️ Properties
    📊 Equities

    📋 HMRC Portal & VAT Filing

    Stay compliant — late filing has real financial consequences.

    ⚠️ Why this matters in the real world

    • Every firm is legally required to report its income
    • VAT is 20% in the UK — collected from customers, remitted to HMRC
    • Late filing = automatic interest charges and penalties
    • Repeat non-compliance = HMRC investigation

    🎯 Objectives

    Complete objectives and earn bonus capital. Tracked automatically.

    🎯 Objectives
    🏆 Achievements

    🧾 Balance History

    See every income, profit, reward, and penalty that formed your current balance.

    🏆 Leaderboard

    Live rankings — updated in real time.

    Team comparison
    Individual Rankings
    #PlayerCapitalDealsTeam

    📜 Activity Log

    All transactions in real time.