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Startup VS Consulting
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Your objective today is to make a decision: you have an offer from a consulting company which will pay you €50.000 per year.
On the other hand, you always wanted to create your own startup in your favorite city. What would be the income difference?
Please consider your income analysis and explain your decision.
III. Profit
Conclusion: Consider your profit analysis. What decision would you make and why?
Further Questions
What other factors/questions could play a role in your decision? Name a few.
Note for Interviewer
More questions to be added by you, interviewer!
At the end of the case, you will have the opportunity to suggest challenging questions about this case (to be asked for instance if the interviewees solve the case very fast).
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Do you have questions on this case? Ask our community!
This case is deliberately open so that the interviewee has to build a good structure at the beginning to which they need to refer a lot.
The important thing in this case is not to get lost in too many details when estimating revenue and costs of the virtual startup, but at the same time build on realistic assumptions.
The industry is basically the choice of the interviewee. In the example we choose a small café in Berlin, Germany.