For those who want to avoid any risk from investing in the real world, AdVenture Capitalist might be the answer.
An online game, players pretend to be major investors in various products to generate large amounts of cash. Starting out with just a single lemonade stand, there are three areas where you can invest: the Earth, Moon, and Mars. Once you increase your revenue at the lemonade stand, you can buy more stands, and gradually work your way up to $1 trillion on Earth. From there, you can invest on the Moon or Mars. A player can speed things up using advertisements, angel investors, or buying gold or megabucks with real money.
The game did not get great reviews, but still maintains a loyal following.
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seed funds Just call me angel Thanks That's All right
It's early in the morning here and we just do
that sometimes Yeah All right Well an angel investor is
typically i'm sorry Won't sing again An angel Investors typically
someone who was wildly successful in an entrepreneurial venture of
their own They feel a kind of moral obligation to
recycle their winnings And in most cases very very early
stage companies are so extremely risky with failure rates over
ninety nine percent Well that it takes some kind of
angel to come in and invest the first few hundred
grand Get them started building that nose picking device the
world has always wanted no And since in most cases
very early start ups have absolutely no idea what they're
worth So many initial angel investments carry no price meaning
that there was only one term carried by the money
invested It will be valued at say a ten percent
or whatever number discount toe whatever valuation The next round
if there is one values the company at while the
first few million bucks into google by a small handful
Of already successful silicon valley types ended up being converted
into stock in their initial or a round which was
done at a whopping almost seventy million dollars It was
done at the height of the first internet bubble and
while timing is everything sometimes google's original investment netted it's
angel investors some ten thousand times their money and spawned
a whole many industry in angels getting together hoping tio
you know do more googles When angels pool their money
they create what is called a seed fund think seeds
planted in the ground to eventually bear fruit You know
like that And when seed investors are right yeah sometimes
they make that ten thousand times their money thing and
yahoo google facebook and a small handful of others all
live in this lofty world of ten thousand xers We're
on ly the loftiest of angels fly q's call me
change All right i'll stop Hey if you've got google
money and you can call me whatever you want No
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