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Serial Founder, the startup simulator where the term sheet bites back

serialfounder.games ↗ · Weird Finds · score 84.0
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An upcoming roguelike startup life sim in which you write the business idea, negotiate with persistent investors, misread live term sheets, and discover how expensive bad decisions can be.

Why it surfaced

Serial Founder turns startup mythology into a concrete game of conversations, contracts, and invoices—including a €14,750-plus-VAT nine-slide deck. Its promise that the death screens are better written than the victory screens gives the whole simulation a welcome sense of humor.

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