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Entrepreneurship

You are the founder of a small startup with limited money and time. You decide what to do next.

Practice case Register

Good fit if: You would rather test an idea than pitch it.
Regionals: February 22, 2027 · online
Nationals: March 27, 2027 · online
Entry: $25 per student · nonrefundable

Topics

What it covers

Problem discovery
Customer validation
Business models
Unit economics
Product–market fit
Go-to-market
Experimentation
Runway

You will not make a pitch deck. Judges care about what you decide to do with the money and time you have.

Format

The two rounds

Regionals

Questions about what a founder should test, build, or cut, using customer and cost data we give you.

Online and timed, on February 22, 2027.

Nationals

You get a startup with a fixed budget and incomplete information. You decide what to do first and defend that order to judges.

March 27, 2027.

Sample question

What a question looks like

Two students built an app that matches tutors with middle schoolers. They have $3,000, 40 paying families, and six months before college. You get their sign-ups, cancellations, and support time per family. What should they do next? What result would tell them to stop?

What a good answer does

A good answer picks the cheapest test that answers the biggest open question. It counts support time as a cost and decides in advance what result means stop.

Practice

Get ready

2026–27