The Entrepreneurship Stack I: The Foundation

Validate, scale, and structure. Three training simulations that take learners from founding mindset through growth management and the organizational changes scaling demands.

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Forio Stacks are a curated sequence of simulations that teach connected skills. 18 learning pathways span the disciplines that drive business today. Unlock the Stack from Forio's Ready-Made catalog that best aligns to your team's goals.

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Participants didn't just listen; they explored, collaborated, and applied concepts in real time. The result was a memorable, impactful experience that resonated across our global audience. Forio helped us elevate learning from a one-way presentation to an immersive, interactive journey.

Design Thinking

Food Truck

Act as an entrepreneur seeking to maximize revenue by determining the ideal combination of product and location. Learn by doing through prototyping and experimentation rather than formal analysis, which is advantageous in turbulent, unpredictable environments. This validation phase provides the founding mindset, requiring quick action and disciplined "test-and-learn" methodologies before committing to full-scale rollout.

Learning Objectives: Entrepreneurial thinking, revenue optimization, learn by doing, prototyping, experimentation.

Total Time: 50 min

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Business Essentials

Coffee Shop Inc.

Manage strategy and operations for a coffee shop, balancing employee and customer satisfaction while navigating competitive challenges and decisions like vertical integration. Level 3 expands to a global chain. In the scaling phase, take a validated idea and apply sustained management across strategy, operations, HR, and marketing to drive growth over multiple simulated years.

Learning Objectives: Strategy management, operations, stakeholder balance, competitive positioning.

Total Time: Variable

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Organizational Design

Evolving Structures

Apply the seven dimensions of organizational structure, such as formalization, span of control, and centralization, to a company that has outgrown its informal setup. Addresses the misaligned teams, duplicated effort, and slowing innovation that come with scaling past a startup's original structure.

Learning Objectives: Organizational structure, structural redesign, scaling challenges, cross-functional alignment.

Total Time: 60–90 min

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