STARTUP to IPO is a strategy board game
This board game is centered around knowledge of principles, methods and myth about innovation and entrepreneurship
STARTUP to IPO requires -
4 or 5 teams of 1 or more players per team
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1 projectmanager (may be a team participant)
- that you are highly competitive, loves risk and strategy and managing ressources
- but you do not need to be an angel, a lion or a serieal entrepreneur
- but you have to be curious and like play in whatever comes your way.
The goal is to be the first team with a Synergy App – which is the product you build – to realize the Initial Public Offering (IPO).
At game start 2 teams play in the role as Entrepreneurs ( E ) and 2-3 teams as Innovators ( I ).
None of the roles are more important throughout the game than the other.
All teams compete with the aim to build their own first products, called MVPs (Minimal Viable Product) apps. To build one MVP you accrue 3 board spaces (apps) marked by the same name and colour.
When a team have built at least one MVP it needs another team – which role differs from theirs – to advance in the game. At this stage the game dynamic changes drastically as these two teams join forces for the rest of the game in order to have the potential to win.
The synergy from the two merging teams, the sharing of ressources and the developing of a new strategy lends its name to a new product: the Synergy MVP.
A Synergy MVP is the product that exclusively can be brought to the market by any two teams.
The Synergy MVP consist of one MVP from each team.
From here on these two teams become one team. They utilize the Entrepreneur’s turn for the rest of the game. However, the new team may freely decide from turn to turn which one of the teams two gamepieces – their surfers – they move.
Arriving at the IPO space is required to win. The process and non-negotiable business requirements described in the PlayBook set the challenges to reach this goal.
Ressources in the form of Tokens are at the start less than what is needed.
Part of a strategy is to figure out how to accumulate the necessary resources, another part is how to meet game defined business requirements.
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How to play the game: each team take turns to move their surfer forward.
The projectmanager oversees that the rules are followed, that quiz questians are answered correctly and transactions executed properly.
There are two ways to advance on the board in the game:
- pay-your-way
- roll-the-dices, which is free
This approach is potentially risky and needs forsight and finacial diligence.
The roll-the-dices method is based on chance.
This approach opens potentially up for greater benefits and windfalls not accessable with the pay-your-way method.
There are several ways to accumulate ressources:
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Luck; landing on a space with a windfall
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Knowledge; answering questions correctly after landing on a space with quiz style questions
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MVP apps; receive medium income from a opponent player visiting owned app space
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Synergy Apps; receive high income from a opponent player visiting owned app space
- Transactions; selling of MVPs
The PlayBook accompanying the boardgame gives the complete picture, so book a game test.