🏙️ The Business School
Entrepreneurship Simulation — track your team's performance in real time
🛒 Marketplace
Browse products from other firms. Payment transfers automatically.
📌 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
🧠 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
🏦 Capital & Loans
Draw down a facility to fund growth — interest accrues until repaid.
📚 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
📋 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.
🧾 Balance History
See every income, profit, reward, and penalty that formed your current balance.
🏆 Leaderboard
Live rankings — updated in real time.
📜 Activity Log
All transactions in real time.