Peer Tutoring Company
Build a tutoring company of top students teaching younger ones, in a town where a chain learning centre charges $60 an hour. Price sessions, recruit tutors, and win parents' trust before exam season.
You and a few friends who aced calculus have started tutoring for money. The town has two high schools, a middle school and a state college, a chain learning centre at the shopping plaza, and online tutoring a click away. Plenty of families need help and nobody has really organised the market. The decisions: how much to charge per session when the chain charges $60 and a neighbour's kid charges $20, how many tutors to recruit and pay before the semester starts, whether to go after college students in intro courses or parents paying for test prep, and how to keep quality up as you grow. It teaches how a service business scales on people: utilisation, the wage-to-price gap, and how reputation travels by word of mouth among parents.
$5.00 a seat · 3 simulated years, decided quarterly · by SparkTower.