Understand how it feels to run a startup, risk-free

An immersive role-playing workshop for entrepreneurship learning with virtual operations.

Entertained Engagement

Practical Startup Skills

Face-to-face interactions

1,000+

Maximum participants in past workshops

250+

Workshops hosted

93%

Satisfaction rate

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A way to actually FEEL entrepreneurship in action

  • Lectures, case studies, discussions… Sometimes it is simply not that exciting to analyze stories of other people’s situations.

    With a passion for entrepreneurship, students want to play with their own ideas and play out their own stories.

    SimBus is here to offer a playground for student entrepreneurs to learn in actions.

  • There is no “pause” button in reality, and the nature of early-stage startup is to resolve situations as they happen.

    Hence in SimBus workshops, everything happens dynamically - there’s no decision rounds, only ongoing business operations for participants.

  • Founders talk to all kinds of people to get things done - engineers, customers, partners - a skills that are deeply rooted in founders’ personalities.

    SimBus encourage participants to interact in-person, so that they can sharpen their interpersonal skills with style, while getting feedback simultaneously.

  • Every company is somewhere along a value chain.

    SimBus workshop has Material Collector, Manufacturer, and Distributor as fundamental business types for participants, so that they will gain a holistic understanding of the value chain, along with key topics in Economics, Supply Chain, Marketing, etc.

We know starting a business is daunting and uncertain.

So we built a startup playground for students to have a taste.

Features

SimBus believes human interactions involve more in the real business world, which means interpersonal skills matter. No turns no rounds - is all your decision in real-time, same as in real life.

✔️ Dynamic virtual market

✔️ Real-time operations

✔️ High engagement

✔️ Cross-Industry sandbox

✔️ Risk-free excitement

✔️ Multiple business models

✔️ Career development

✔️ Startup network

Streamlined & Customizable

University and Academia

Providing an immersive and educational learning experience through our program.

Student Associations

Enrich participants’ experiences by offering an unique and unforgettable event.

Customized

Implement our program in your desired size, schedule, and location.

How does our workshop work?

  • Pick a space and time

  • Students register and team-up

  • Grant software access

  • Gameplay training

  • Student teams run as companies

  • Begin with initial funds

  • Interact and operate with freedom

  • Evaluate on overall revenue growth

  • Award teams & individuals

  • Reflect and learn

Yuepeng Liu | Project Management | Northeastern University:

“I am truly grateful for this experience, which has deepen my understanding of business operations in a new way.”

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Khyle Hannan | Entrepreneurship Program Manager | Northeastern University Library

“I saw students were truly immersive in this experience. They were all very engaged in this!”

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