Entrepreneur simulation game
GoVenture Entrepreneur offers the fastest and most experiential way to teach and learn business with the most realistic small business startup and operations simulation ever created.
Teach less while your students learn more!
Use GoVenture to enhance your training or as a full curriculum to teach business, entrepreneurship, marketing, accounting, and more. Implementation is easy and assessment is skill-based and fully automated.
Build a business from the ground up while managing every detail of its operation — with increasing complexity.
Start with a lemonade stand, level up to a kiosk (with food truck), and then a hyper-realistic small business. Ideal for players of all ages and levels. Microlearning is integrated for learning fundamental concepts and terminology. Simulation interface is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Video for Instructors
Business Types
GoVenture Entrepreneur is available in two versions: BASIC and ADVANCED. The BASIC version has a lower price but does not include the Full Business types. All other resources are included.
Lemonade Stand
Included with BASIC
and ADVANCED version
Kiosk Business
Included with BASIC
and ADVANCED versions
Ice Cream
Tacos
Hot Dogs
Popcorn & Snacks
Clothing
Costume Jewelry
Electronics
Full Business
Included with ADVANCED
version only — not BASIC
Fitness Gym
Casual Restaurant
Sandwich Restaurant
Mexican Restaurant
Pizza Restaurant
Cafe
Ice Cream Parlor
Convenience Store
Cosmetics Boutique
Barber Shop
Hair Salon
Beauty Salon
Automotive Center
Automotive Shop
Veterinary Clinic
Dental Practice
Department Store
Microstay Hotel
Coworking Space
Online Retail
Bicycle & Skateboard Shop
Well-known brands that match the business types above include the following (note that brands names do not appear in the simulation) — McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway, Quiznos, Chipotle, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Starbucks, Duncan, Tim Hortons, Baskin Robbins, Dairy Queen, Planet Fitness, LA Fitness, Midas, Meineke, Hilton, Marriott, Pet Depot, L'Oréal, Clinique, Walmart, Amazon, and many more.
Lemonade Stand
Video Demo
Included with BASIC and ADVANCED versions
Kiosk Business
Video Demo
Included with BASIC and ADVANCED versions
Full Business
Video Demo
Included with ADVANCED version only (not BASIC)
About
GoVenture Entrepreneur offers the fastest and most experiential way to teach and learn business with the most realistic small business startup and operations simulation ever created.
Simulation interface is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Accounting, and More!
A highly versatile simulation that can be used to teach and learn multiple subjects. Click these links to discover amazing features for marketing and accounting.
Level Up!
Players are guided through the experience based on their individual capabilities to maximize learning and assessment. Players who need a basic experience can focus on the lemonade stand, kiosk, and food truck businesses. Advanced players can progress to run a full business in a hyper-realistic experience.
Ethical AI
GoVenture empowers students to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make smarter decisions and build valuable skills — without relying on AI to do the work for them.
Modern User Interface
Players navigate an expanding 3D city to select business locations and watch customer activity and feedback in real-time. The interface begins with basic options and increases in depth as the player progresses to higher levels.
Global Leaderboards
Players can compare their performance with the best in the world on the global leaderboards.
Microlearning and Skill Assessment
The simulation is enhanced with 145 microlearning modules that introduce business concepts using video, quizzes, and authentic skill assessments.
Instructor Controls and Comprehensive Resources
Instructors have fine control over player progress and assessment using an instructor website (online version). Includes comprehensive learning and assessment resources — see below.
Comprehensive Learning Resources Included
GoVenture can be used to enhance your current course or training or to build an entirely new course — everything instructors and students need is included to meet or exceed learning standards. Simulation interface is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Instructor Guide and Website
An instructor guide and curriculum plan on how to use GoVenture in schools or for business training. The online version of GoVenture also includes a free instructor website for monitoring and assessing student performance in real time.
Microlearning and Skill Assessment
The simulation is enhanced with over 100 microlearning modules that introduce business concepts using video and other media supported with knowledge checks, quizzes, and authentic skill assessment. (Microlearning is only included with the Online version, while Skill Assessment is included in all versions.)
Business Superhero Book
Helps students learn the fundamental concepts of business and entrepreneurship. The 200-page book is easy to read with large text and lots of examples to make fundamental business concepts easy to understand. Students can use it as a reference for topics they need help with, or read it from cover to cover to gain practical business wisdom. Provided as Adobe PDF.
View sample pages
Lessons and Activities
Over 50 lesson plans and activities designed to bring business education alive in the classroom. Every key decision a business owner needs to make in starting and running a business is addressed. Glossary included. Provided as Adobe PDF.
View glossary and sample activities
Videos
Videos to enhance student learning — curated from around the world.
Assessment
Includes multiple assessment options to choose from enabling instructors to perfectly match their grading and performance preferences. Assessment options include participation, performance, quizzes, journaling, report preparation, and more. Most options are automated saving significant instructional time.
Award Certificates & Certification
Printable certificates for rewarding learner achievement or enable your students to achieve an official credential issued by the makers of GoVenture.
Award Certificates
Standards, Topics, and Outcomes
GoVenture represents the best of experiential learning. Your students learn more while you teach less. With over 100 activities, topics, and outcomes covered, GoVenture makes it quick and easy to deliver curriculum-matched outcomes in a way that is problem-based, cross-curriculum, thematic, and holistic.
Learning Applications
School Curriculum
Inspire your students with an exciting way to teach and learn. GoVenture experiential learning enhances instructor-led and self-directed courses for youth and adults, online and offline.
Accounting
Bring accounting to life with the most effective way to learn and practice accounting.
Learn more about the Accounting Features
Virtual Internships
Enhance or replace live internships by providing students anywhere in the world with the opportunity to experience startup and managerial roles over hours, days, weeks, and months — Learn more
Startup Training
There is no substitute for experience in business startup. Like a flight simulator for business, GoVenture enables players to gain years of realistic business experience in minutes by learning and practicing the fundamentals with no risk.
Customer Empathy
Businesses can inspire their front-line employees by using GoVenture as a customer empathy tool. Employees will gain the wisdom to anticipate the needs of customers and the confidence to improve customer relationships and sales — Learn more
Purchase Options
GoVenture Entrepreneur is available in two versions: BASIC and ADVANCED — see Business Types box at the top of this page.
Online Subscription plays from the cloud in a browser on computers, Chromebooks, and tablets. Deliver your curriculum in person, online, or at a distance.
Perpetual version is installed and plays on Windows and Macintosh computers in your school or organization with no renewal fees. Note — perpetual version does not have an instructor website, Microlearning, or the option to adjust simulation settings.
View PRICES for details.
STUDENT PRIVACY is fully maintained.
Testimonials
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Student ratings in this course were the highest I have ever gotten.
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I felt powerful and very productive after these assignments. This exercise helped me stretch my thinking and decision-making.
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GoVenture is extremely popular with students.
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I'm excited to see my progress in the simulation, and I'm not that engaged in any of my other classes.
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Video games in Academia can change lives!
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I did not feel as much stress and gained more confidence in what I was doing. Being able to fail and learn from failures without having my ego judged was a huge confidence booster.
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My class LOVES GoVenture CEO. It's all they talk about!
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It is an amazing tool for business learning purposes, developing different skills to get bolder and think differently through the game and in real life.
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Holy **** this thing is amazing. Wow. I'm sure you guys hear this all the time.
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I love that you can make different decisions and see what the outcome may be.
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Students learned how to build financial statements and what leads to growth.
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I feel that it is the perfect opportunity to take chances, test a theory, or just live on the edge, with nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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I LOVE this Digital Marketing module! I teach it and have struggled with just the issues you identify.
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It was a fun experience and I would like to do it again in another class.
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The business simulations have brought an awesome new perspective and element to my class.
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It is an amazing tool for business learning purposes, developing different skills to get bolder and think differently through the game and in real life.
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While there are other games that deal with entrepreneurship, GoVenture is very rich and deep.
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I discovered that I have no business running a business, haha. It requires a lot of hard work, dedication, and research.
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I appreciate how the simulation is scaffolded so students can learn in a simple simulation and then increase the complexity by adding more functions.
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The GoVenture Simulation was a very unique experience, unlike anything I've done for school so far!
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This is an amazing resource. My students were engaged and learning.
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This was a really interesting, eye-opening experience and I'm very curious to see how the knowledge I've gained can be applied to my future career goals.
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GoVenture is an integral part of our curriculum.
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Gave me more appreciation for a lot of business owners who are working to keep themselves afloat right now.
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My class that includes GoVenture is the one that I am most excited to attend.
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I learned how to think as a CEO.
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It wasn't like learning from a textbook. We actually got to implement what we were learning. So that was really cool.
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At first I didn't know anybody in my group and we didn't talk much to each other until the actual simulation had begun. As we progressed, we opened up to each other and had fun strategizing.
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I would totally go through and play it again and I'm not even in the class anymore.