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Learn from your mistakes in the company management simulation, but not in your real business. Save your money!

Startup simulation game "Company Founder"

80% of new companies and startups die in the first year due to a lack of experience of the founders and their unsuccessful decisions.

Management simulation games reduces the risk of fatal mistakes and financial losses in a business by 3 times

Now you can learn from your mistakes painlessly!


The business management game “Company Founder” is:

  • Detailed company management simulation for practical training and development of your entrepreneurial skills
  • Realistic multiuser simulation of the market environment will allow you to search and test ideas, strategies, and business models
  • A virtual model of your real startup for experiments, test various hypotheses, reduce the risk of financial loss and fatal mistakes


Screenshots of the business management game “Company Founder”


Choose the business simulation for you:

Virtonomics for entrepreneurs at the idea stage

Training in a realistic business simulation. Get the necessary practice, skills and ideas needed to start a business.


What you will get:

  • Access to turn-based company management simulation game
  • 200+ industry environments to search for a profitable niche
  • A template to describe your idea and business model.
  • Ability to create a virtual prototype of the future company
  • Practical training tasks for managing your virtual company
  • Tracking of managerial errors and problem areas
  • Financial and marketing analytics
  • Possibility to check the strength of your business idea
  • Testing and improvement of your business skills
  • Practical tips and instructions for creating a successful business.
  • 24/7 access

How it works:

1. Learn key business skills:
– Get in control of a ready-built virtual business in a management game.
– Perform all educational tasks and missions.
– Manage all business processes by yourself, make managerial decisions, experiment, make mistakes, read hints, and correct mistakes.
– Compete with other real players, and ensure growth and profits for the next 30 turns.

2. Use the simulation to find ideas, develop a prototype and business plan
– Analyze markets in the management simulation game, find a profitable niche and idea for your own new company
– Restart the management game
– Describe the idea, goals, and business model for your company in accordance with the template and instructions
– Build your virtual company in the selected market according to the described business model
– Ensure a 20% profit growth for your company in each of the 30 turns in the simulation
– Experiment, try hypotheses, make mistakes, and adjust the business plan and processes until you get the desired result.

3. Start building your real business
– Go beyond the management simulation game, and move on to practical steps to build your business in the real world. Now you know by 80% what you need to do and what you should not do.




Virtonomics for the launch stage

Search and verify business ideas in the simulation, and only then implement them in real life. Minimize the risks of your startup.


What you will get:

  • Access to turn-based company management game
  • 200+ industry environments to search for a profitable niche
  • A template to describe your idea and business model.
  • Ability to create a virtual prototype of the future company
  • Educational practical tasks in the management simulation game
  • Tracking of managerial errors and problem areas
  • Financial and marketing analytics
  • Possibility to check the strength of your business idea
  • Testing and improvement of your business skills
  • Practical tips and instructions for creating a successful business.
  • 24/7 access
  • Access to business simulation “Startup Intensive”
  • 6 ready-made profitable company templates (retail, manufacturing, services, food, clothing, transport)
  • Customization of your company’s business model
  • Testing of hypothesis and business models in different markets
  • Management of key processes and sales channels
  • Dashboard of key business indicators
  • Presentation of your startup in the Virtonomics community
  • Access to the international community of “Virtonomics Entrepreneurs”

How it works:

1. Learn to work with a company management simulator and develop your business skills
– Get in control of a ready-built virtual business in a turn-based management game.
– Perform all educational tasks and missions.
– Manage all business processes by yourself, make managerial decisions, experiment, make mistakes, read hints, and correct mistakes.
– Compete with other real players, and ensure growth and profits for the next 30 turns.

2. Create a virtual model of your business in a realistic competitive environment. Use it as an experimental testing ground to test your ideas, hypotheses, and business decisions
– Describe the idea, goals, and business model of your real business in Canvas format in a special template in simulation.
– Build a virtual analog of your company in the simulation in accordance with the previously described model.
– Set financial and market goals for your company in accordance with the business plan for their automatic tracking.
– Set up all key business processes of your virtual company in the simulation. Ensure the necessary profitability, stable sales growth, and profits for 30 turns, in a market with a low density of competition.
– Try to transfer the same business model to a highly competitive market in the simulation and achieve similar indicators of profitability and sales.
– Experiment, try, make mistakes, test your market hypotheses, and adjust the business plan and processes until you get the desired result.

3. Adapt solutions tested in the company management simulation and apply them in real business. Do not experiment at random, minimize risks.
– Adapt and transfer the successful strategies, tactics, and business models that you found in simulation, in your real business. Get profit.
– Develop your virtual company in a management game synchronously with your real business (15-20 minutes a day), and keep your company’s training “dummy” up to date.
– Use company management simulation to check the ideas you want to implement in your real business. Minimize the risks of your new managerial decisions.

4. Present your company to the large international community of Virtonomics. Find partners and like-minded people in your country and abroad




Virtonomics for the growth stage

Experiment and test business development strategies in the simulator. Save money and business from mistakes.


What you will get:
  • Access to company management simulation game.
  • 200+ industry environment to search for a profitable niche.
  • A template to describe your idea and business model.
  • Ability to create a virtual prototype of the future company.
  • Educational practical tasks in the simulation.
  • Tracking of managerial errors and problem areas.
  • Financial and marketing analytics.
  • Possibility to check the strength of your business idea.
  • Testing and improvement of your business skills.
  • Practical tips and instructions for creating a successful business.
  • 24/7 access.
  • Access to business simulation game “Startup Intensive”.
  • 6 ready-made profitable company templates (retail, manufacturing, services, food, clothing, transport).
  • Customization of your company’s business model.
  • Testing of hypotheses and business models in different markets.
  • Management of key processes and sales channels
  • Dashboard of key business indicators.
  • Presentation of your startup in the Virtonomics community.
  • Access to the international community of “Virtonomics Entrepreneur”.
  • Your brand and franchise in the simulation.
  • Management of an international corporation.
  • Presentation of your startup in Virtonomics digest.
  • Access to the base of investment funds and business angels.
  • 3 unique online courses for business scaling: “Sales management”, “Quality management”, “Crisis management”.

How it works:
  1. Take a practical express course on working in the simulator for 3 days
    – Get into the management of one of the 5 ready-made virtual companies in the startup simulator “Intensive”.
    – Complete all the practical tasks and missions.
    – Manage all business processes yourself, make management decisions, experiment, make mistakes, read hints, and correct mistakes.
    – Survive the competition among other real players, and ensure the growth of profitability over 15 turns.

2. Create a virtual analog of your company in a realistic competitive simulated business environment
– Describe the idea, goals, and business model of your real business in Canvas format in a special template in simulation.
– Build a virtual analog of your company in the simulation in accordance with the previously described model in your market.
– Set financial and market goals for your company in accordance with the business plan for their automatic tracking.
– Set up all key business processes of your virtual company in the simulation as close as possible to your real business.

3. Develop and test in the simulator new sales channels and strategies for scaling in new markets.
– Develop and test in the simulator new strategies and tactics for the development of your business, sales channels, tools to increase revenue and profitability, new products, new markets, … R&D.
– Experiment, try, make mistakes, test your market hypotheses, and adjust the business plan and processes until you get the desired result.
– Pass free 3 unique practical courses combined with simulation, and learn how to manage growing and international business in practice.
– Adapt and transfer newly found strategies and tactics, business models, and processes into your real business. Test your hypotheses in the simulation and minimize the risks of wrong decisions.

4. Present your company in the business community of Virtonomics. Find new customers or partners to scale your business and enter new markets. Find financial partners and investors for your company


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