SIM SILICON VALLEY

SIM SILICON VALLEY

2026. You just walked out of your Big Tech job with $500, a garage, and one loyal cofounder.

It starts the right way around: pick an idea, research the market, write the GTM strategy. Rent cloud compute before you ever rack a GPU. Early customers pay for pilots; ARR only starts when you ship a product. Clear each level's checklist to earn your milestone badge, from First Check all the way to the IPO bell.

And that grid you build on? It is the TAM. Rival startups will found HQs on it and take lots that should be yours. Fold them, out-ship them, or acquire them: the market goes to whoever captures the grid.

One more thing: investors do not write checks on day one. You will earn every round by walking their playbook.

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Name your company

The name outlives the pivot. Choose wisely, or roll the dice.

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Choose your path to funding

Each playbook is a different road to the same money. The tasks change, the terms change, you change.