Entrepreneurship & Innovation · New Venture Creation

Down Round Conversation: The Mark That Makes The Story

Solo founder simulation rehearsing the cap-table math, board pre-wire, and team narration of a down round. Three rounds: read the situation honestly, rehearse the board conversation, rehearse the team conversation. Exits with a 7-day plan.

3 rounds Executive English, Español
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Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Recommended path
  • Option pool refresh (pre-money, %)
  • Did you say the private narrative out loud?
  • Pre-read memo to the board (Monday EOD)
  • Pre-wire calls before Tuesday
  • Tuesday opening 60 seconds
  • Communication sequence
  • All-hands message structure
  • 1:1 with four flight-risk employees

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Run the numbers, not the narrative

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in New Venture Creation.

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