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Real entrepreneurship challenges on Ewance — validate, build, and pitch a venture the way founders actually do. Solve them to build a portfolio of verified, recruiter-checkable proof you can do the work — not just describe it.
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Build Mylkman's 12-Month Retail Scaling Playbook
Design an integrated 12-month scaling playbook for Mylkman's move from a direct-to-consumer and cafe-wholesale business into national grocery retail, drawing only on the four pr…
- Organizational Design
- Scaling Strategy
- Hiring Planning
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Improving Patient Intake for a Telehealth Startup
You are a design thinking consultant hired by MediConnect. Your task is to analyze the current intake flow, identify pain points through user research, ideate improvements, prot…
- User Research
- Ux Design
- Prototyping
Design Thinking and Innovation - StrategyBeginnerNew
Growth Strategy for a London D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to develop a 12-month retail expansion plan. Analyze the trade-offs between D2C and retail channels, assess the brand's readiness for B2B relationships, and propose…
- Market Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Go To Market Strategy
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation - AnalysisSeniorNew
Founder Behavior Diagnostic and 90-Day Plan for a Burnt-Out SaaS CEO
Your task is to read the case file and produce a behavioral diagnostic plus a 90-day intervention plan that the board chair can hand directly to the founder. Examine the de-iden…
- Founder Psychology
- Behavioral Diagnostics
- Executive Coaching
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- StrategyFoundationalNew
Design a Lightweight Intrapreneurship Program for TaskFlow
Working only from the materials provided — the TaskFlow company dossier (taskflow-dossier), the leadership strategy and budget memo (leadership-memo), and the employee innovatio…
- Program Design
- Intrapreneurship
- Process Mapping
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Three-Year Succession Plan for a Family Manufacturer
Working only from the materials you are given — a confidential company dossier describing the firm, its history, ownership, and finances; an anonymized summary of interviews wit…
- Succession Planning
- Governance Design
- Family Dynamics
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Field Study: Roadmapping TaskFlow's Move to Enterprise Sales
Acting as a technology management intern at TaskFlow, produce a 12-month roadmap that lets the company close three enterprise deals within six months without eroding satisfactio…
- Technology Roadmapping
- Resource Allocation
- Technical Debt
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Lean Launch Plan for a Sustainable Fashion App
Your task is to create a lean launch plan document. Define your target customer segment, design a customer discovery interview guide, specify MVP features (no coding required, j…
- Lean Startup
- Customer Discovery
- Mvp Design
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Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Sustainable Packaging for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a design thinking consultant for Glowly. Your task is to research customer attitudes toward sustainable packaging, brainstorm packaging alternatives, create prototypes (…
- Sustainable Design
- Packaging Engineering
- User Research
Design Thinking and Innovation - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design Wealthsimple's Innovation Ecosystem Strategy
Using only the materials provided, examine Wealthsimple's current ability to innovate and decide what kind of innovation ecosystem it should build. Read the innovation audit mem…
- Ecosystem Mapping
- Open Innovation
- Corporate Venturing
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Pivot or Persevere for a Food-Tech Startup
Your team has one week to analyze provided customer data (acquisition channels, churn rates, unit economics) and market research on the B2B office food market. Deliver a recomme…
- Data Analysis
- Unit Economics
- Business Model Canvas
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation - StrategyBeginnerNew
Digital Transformation Governance for a Family-Owned Retail Chain
You are a junior strategy analyst in a consulting firm hired by the family council. Your task is to propose a governance model for digital transformation, including decision rig…
- Governance Design
- Digital Transformation
- Family Business
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- AnalysisSeniorNew
Hybrid Legal Structure for a US-Based Benefit Corporation
Your task is to research and recommend a legal structure for EcoThread. Analyze the pros and cons of benefit corporation, L3C, and hybrid models (e.g., for-profit with a nonprof…
- Legal Structures
- Benefit Corporation
- Social Enterprise Law
Social Entrepreneurship and Impact - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design an Open Innovation Pilot for GlowUp Naturals
Acting as a junior innovation consultant hired by GlowUp Naturals, design a six-month open innovation pilot and present it to the chief executive. Ground every recommendation in…
- Open Innovation
- Partner Scouting
- Ip Management
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Design a Virtual Ideation Workshop for EcoThreads' Circular Line
Design a facilitation package for a single 4-hour virtual ideation workshop with twelve EcoThreads participants. Using only the company brief (mat-company-brief), the participan…
- Ideation
- Workshop Facilitation
- Circular Economy
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Wealth Management and Philanthropy Strategy for a Family Office
You are a wealth management intern at the family office. Your task is to propose a comprehensive strategy covering asset allocation, risk management, and a philanthropic framewo…
- Asset Allocation
- Philanthropy Strategy
- Family Governance
Family Business Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Impact Measurement for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to develop a comprehensive impact measurement framework for GlowRoot. You will identify relevant metrics (e.g., carbon footprint reduction, trees planted, customer …
- Impact Measurement
- Social Return On Investment
- Data Analysis
Social Entrepreneurship and Impact - StrategyIntermediateNew
Scaling Social Impact: Strategy for a Kenyan AgriTech Startup
Your task is to create a scaling strategy for KilimoConnect. Analyze their current model, identify key bottlenecks (e.g., supply chain, farmer training, technology adoption), an…
- Scaling Strategy
- Social Enterprise Model
- Financial Modeling
Social Entrepreneurship and Impact - StrategyIntermediateNew
Field Investigation: Scoping a Siemens Energy Green Hydrogen Venture
Work only from the three provided materials. Start by reading the Siemens Energy strategy corpus (item: siemens-strategy-corpus) and the internal venture committee brief (item: …
- Business Model Canvas
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Corporate Venturing
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesigning Onboarding for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
You are a design thinking consultant hired by Flowly. Your task is to conduct user research with enterprise prospects (use personas provided), ideate a new onboarding flow, prot…
- User Research
- Ideation
- Prototyping
Design Thinking and Innovation - StrategyBeginnerNew
Beachhead Selection for a Direct-Air-Capture University Spinout
Using the founder and company dossier, the sorbent technical specification, and the European market-signals dataset provided to you, run a full divergent-then-convergent process…
- Opportunity Evaluation
- Ideation
- Market Sizing
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