Games & simulations · 5 min

Build a Startup Team on a Budget

Select fictional candidates with different costs, capabilities, and trade-offs under a 100-credit budget. Test the roster against three challenges—customer interviews, a prototype, and an early paid pilot—and see which capabilities are covered. Over-budget teams cannot continue until adjusted. Candidate profiles, costs, and outcomes are simulation assumptions, not market salary or hiring data. Candidate credits and capabilities are bundled fictional inputs. A challenge score counts which listed capabilities are represented by the selected roster; choices carry forward across all three challenges. All candidate data, costs, and challenge rules are fictional. Coverage is not a prediction of hiring success, company performance, or actual compensation. Scoring and simulation rules are bundled with the site.

Candidates and costs are fictional simulation values. Different affordable teams can succeed in different ways.

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