I think the forced countdown is a bit unfriendly, especially when LLM delays eat the majority of that. Perhaps limit it to X questions.

Also, having a min / max funding range (e.g, min 100K, max 500K). I might not want to wager the same on each opportunity.

It might also be interesting to base it off real companies. Scramble the names (Paypal -> CashMate or whatever. Enough that the player doesn't know for sure what company its based on. ATi vs nVidia for eg), and also allow investment at multiple points in time. Pre-crash vs post-crash might yield significantly different ROI outcomes.

Thanks for feedback. The successful startups are actually always based of real companies for example ClaritySearch = Google. I'll try to make that part clearer.