Trajectory
Compare your startup journey
When you start the game, you can opt in to benchmarking. At the end, you'll see how your choices and outcomes compare to other players at your level. Educators can also set up class sessions for group-level insights.
How it works
Choose to benchmark yourself, pick your level and a nickname. If your educator gave you a join code, enter it here too. Or just skip this and play without benchmarking — it's entirely optional.
Nothing changes about gameplay. Your choices and outcomes are recorded anonymously in the background.
When the game ends, you'll see how your choices (founder type, sector, location, funding path) and outcomes (milestones, funding, valuation, equity) compare to all other players at your level.
For educators
Create a class session below to get a 6-character join code. Share it with your students — they enter it when they start the game. You can then come back here to see how your class did as a group, what choices were most popular, and how your class compares to other classes at the same level.
Set up takes under a minute. No accounts, no software, no personal data collected.
Your Choices vs. All Players
No choice data recorded for this game.
Your Outcomes vs. All Players
Not enough benchmark data yet (need at least 10 completed games at this level).
Students enter this code when they start the game.
When they finish, they'll see how they compare to all players.
Come back to this page anytime and use "View Results" to see how your class did.
Students
| Nickname | Quarters | Milestones | Valuation | Outcome |
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What Your Class Chose vs. All Players
No completed games with choice data yet.
How Your Class Performed vs. All Players
Not enough benchmark data yet (need at least 10 completed games at this level).
Your Class Among All Classes
🔒 Anonymous by design — not a research project.
For students: You only ever enter a nickname — no real names, emails or accounts. Benchmarking is entirely optional and exists purely to give you feedback on your own play; your individual results are never recorded in any identifiable way.
For educators: The Slingshot does not record which universities use it or who takes part in a class, and any class view is anonymous and aggregate. There is no personal-data collection and no individual tracking — only basic, cookie-free usage by time and broad location, which is how we know roughly how many people play and from which countries. All data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), and you can delete a session and its data at any time.