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Train your mind like a founder with business startup simulations and online courses tailored for students, educators, and professionals
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Educators: Align your classroom with future learning.
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Startup Simulation Experience & Key Benefits
Startup Wars delivers a hands-on startup simulation experience where students think and act like real founders. Learners make strategic decisions, adapt to market shifts, and solve business challenges, just like running an actual startup.
Without The Risk
Startup Wars business simulations teach real-world skills without real-world risk:
🧠 Teaches Strategy & Critical Thinking
Practice how to pivot, allocate resources, and forecast outcomes under pressure.
🎮 Gamified & Immersive Format
Story-driven startup simulations keep learners engaged while teaching valuable concepts.
💻 Browser-Based, No Installs Required
Launch from any device, no IT setup or downloads needed.
📈 Real-Time Feedback & Learning Analytics
Instructors can track student decisions, progress, and learning outcomes automatically.
Startup Wars transforms business theory into active, skill-building experiences, through immersive startup simulations built for education.
Created by Experts, Trusted by Educators and Leaders
Explore Industry-Themed Startup Simulations
With Startup Wars, students launch virtual businesses in a range of industries, from t-shirt brands to tech startups. Each startup simulation is designed to teach business strategy, decision-making, and entrepreneurial thinking in different real-life contexts.
Each startup simulation teaches:
Business planning
Budgeting and cash flow
Marketing and customer segmentation
HR and team management
Data-driven decision-making
Business Skills Gained from Business Simulations
Every business simulation in Startup Wars is designed to build the critical skills today’s students need to succeed as founders, team leaders, or business professionals.
Students learn to:
🧭 Launch and Pivot Like a Founder
Adapt to shifting markets, customer feedback, and resource constraints.
👥 Understand Customer Segments
Identify audiences, test messaging, and build product-market fit.
💸 Manage Cash Flow and Budgets
Learn how to allocate limited resources and forecast spending.
🛠 Build Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
Focus on iteration, speed to market, and customer validation.
📊 Make Data-Driven Decisions
Analyze performance metrics, spot trends, and adjust strategies in real time.
🧠 Think Critically and Strategically
Strengthen leadership, ethical decision-making, and systems thinking.
These business skills transfer directly to careers in entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, and beyond, making business simulations a powerful tool for future-ready education.
97% +
Instructor Satisfaction Rate
Business Simulations for High School Education & CTE Programs
Startup Wars business simulations help high school educators bring business education to life through interactive startup simulations that teach students how to think like real entrepreneurs. Designed for CTE pathways, business courses, and entrepreneurship tracks, our simulations develop 21st-century skills while keeping students engaged.
Why teachers love using our Startup Wars business simulations in high school:
📘 Aligns with CTE and Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Easily fits into economics, business, marketing, and career readiness classes.
🎮 Gamified Simulations Students Love
Keeps learners focused and motivated through real-world startup challenges.
💡 Builds Problem Solving & Innovation Skills
Students practice decision-making, creativity, and resource management.
🖥️ Easy Access from Any Device
No installs or tech setup, just log in and start.
🏆 Boosts Confidence Through Hands-On Learning
Students take ownership of their learning in a risk-free, realistic environment.
Startup Wars business simulation helps prepare high school students for entrepreneurship and future careers, one simulation at a time.
97% +
Instructor Satisfaction Rate
97% +
Instructor Satisfaction Rate
Transform Business Classrooms in Colleges & Universities
Empower college students with busness simulations that mirror real-world business challenges, perfect for entrepreneurship, business, and innovation courses.
What makes Startup Wars ideal for higher education:
🧠 Teaches Strategic Thinking & Agile Decision-Making
Students learn to pivot, allocate resources, and operate in dynamic markets.
🛠️ Real-World Entrepreneurial Experience
Simulations replicate challenges founders face from ideation through growth.
💼 Career-Ready Skill Building
Strengthens business acumen, cross-functional thinking, and leadership.
📊 Instructor Tools for Assessment
Built-in analytics track progress, participation, and learning outcomes.
💻 No Software Installs Required
Runs in the browser, ready for in-person, hybrid, or fully online courses.
Startup Wars is trusted by business schools and professors to deliver scalable, hands-on entrepreneurship training through immersive business simulation software.
What Our Students
Say About Us
“ Startup Simulation Wars as a simulation is a very useful experience that challenges students and makes the learning process more interesting and varied. It gives opportunities to students to think differently, make tough decisions, to understand business processes, and also change something (to be more confident). ”
Alima Dostiyarova
Assistant Professor, KBTU University
“ Startup Wars is the most aligned with what real-world entry into entrepreneurship is like. The content is robust and works for all audiences, and it's fun ”
John H. Wilson, PhD
Teaching Professor, Drexel University
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What to Know Before Using Startup Wars
Not sure if Startup Wars fits your class? Start here.
About Startup Wars
Startup Wars is an entrepreneurship education platform built around interactive business simulations. Your students run a company and make realistic business decisions around pricing, marketing, inventory, hiring, budgeting, operations, and strategy. It's a practical, engaging way for students to build real financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills in 2026. Here's a quick high-level video on what Startup Wars is!
Startup Wars fits a wide range of courses, including entrepreneurship, business, marketing, economics, career readiness, CTE, and more. High schools, colleges, universities, summer programs, and incubators all use it in different ways depending on their goals. Not sure what setup makes sense? If you’re planning for an upcoming high school or college class, cohort, or semester, contact our team today and we’ll help you find the right setup.
The Startup Wars platform revolutionizes entrepreneurship education by intertwining traditional learning with advanced technology, creating a scalable and dynamic environment.
Startup Wars is an educational platform first, intentionally designed with game-based learning to make entrepreneurship more engaging, practical, and memorable for your students.
The interactive experience keeps students curious and involved, while the structure underneath supports instruction, measurable outcomes, and real business skill-building.
Yes, we do! Our latest addition is Milton AI, our AI entrepreneurship coach that guides students as they make decisions throughout the simulations and can support instructors.
Teaching with Simulations
Not at all, and you won't have to rebuild your course to make room for it! It fits into entrepreneurship, business, marketing, CTE, and career-readiness courses as whatever you need: a short project, a multi-week unit, a semester activity, or a supplement. Most instructors start small and grow it once they see how students respond postively.
However it works for you: individual assignments, group projects, class competitions, entrepreneurship modules, CTE activities, or end-of-course projects. Students run their simulated companies, make the strategic calls, see what happened, and reflect on what worked and what didn't.
Yes, your students can each have a totally different simulation experience while you keep one consistent structure for assignments, outcomes, and evaluation across the whole class and sections. Less juggling for you!
Absolutely! Educators, schools, and organizations can request a free demo to see the platform in action, explore the simulation catalog, and ask us anything about pricing, implementation, assignments, and classroom fit. Get started now.
Startup Wars is preparing for cleaner classroom workflows, including LTI 1.3 support for easier LMS use. If your school uses an LMS like Canvas or Blackboard, our team can walk you through the current options and what’s coming soon.
Student Experience
No prior experience is needed! Startup Wars is designed to support students at different readiness levels, so instructors can guide learners into the experience that best fits their class. Depending on the simulation and setup, difficulty options may also help adjust the level of challenge.
Students build practical, transferable skills by working toward the learning objectives in each simulation and practicing what it takes to operate a real business. That includes planning, financial literacy, pricing, raising capital, inventory management, team management, hiring, marketing, business terminology, and strategy. Because every choice has a consequence, students learn to think critically, reflect on outcomes, and adjust when things don’t go as planned, just like real founders do.
We have a growing catalog, including the T-Shirt Company Series, Food Truck Series, Vertical Farming Series, Mobile App Series, and Makers Market Series. Each one drops students into a different business venture while reinforcing the same core entrepreneurship and company-management skills.
Yes, when their instructor enables multiple simulations! A student interested in hospitality can choose the Food Truck simulation, while another goes for Mobile App Startup, T-Shirt Business, Vertical Farming, or a Makers Market Business. Talk to our team to learn how this would work for your class.
Startup Wars has documented accessibility work across the instructor portal, student portal, and simulation interface. Current documentation lists Startup Wars as partially supporting WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA, with accessibility improvements still ongoing. If your school has specific requirements, we encourage you to review our VPAT and test the exact workflows your students will use.
Pricing & Getting Started
Please check our pricing page for the latest details on our pass offers: https://www.startupwars.com/pricing/
Every Startup Wars rollout starts with understanding how your program plans to use it. A single instructor may need a simple demo account and course setup, while a larger school or institution may need planning around student volume, access, timing, and support.
To get started, schedule a demo. We can provide complimentary demo account access, walk you through the student experience, and help map the right setup for an individual class, multiple sections, or a school-wide implementation.
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