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Startup Wars

Build practical skills to launch your venture

Turn your business ideas into reality

Learn what it takes to build, manage, and grow a business through interactive challenges that make entrepreneurship feel possible.

Young entrepreneurs learning together
10K+
learners
100+
institutions
Risk-free
founder practice

Build, launch, and grow

Why young entrepreneurs need practical skills

Starting a business takes more than a good idea. Simulations put you in charge of the planning, strategy, and tough decisions that turn an early idea into a venture.

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Founder mindset

Learn how to explore an opportunity, respond to feedback, and make progress with limited resources.

02

Real decisions

Practice the customer, product, money, and team choices that shape a business.

03

Learn by doing

Participants make decisions, see the consequences, and reflect on what they would do next.

Student excited about a business simulation

Practical by design

Learn the work behind the dream

Make an early strategy, test it against a changing market, and discover how entrepreneurs recover and improve after every result.

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Built around your goals

Build the skills behind your idea

  • Business planning
  • Customer discovery
  • Budgeting and cash flow
  • Leadership and resilience
Startup Wars is a fun way to understand how starting a business works in a safe and easy way.
Kate Halstead · Drexel University

See it in action

Start exploring your next business idea

Join through an instructor or program when you have a class link or access code. Otherwise, explore the simulation series and ask an educator or the Startup Wars team about available access.

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