Imagine

It's late 90's. The stock market is booming. Technology start-ups are being acquired by big corporations on buying frenzy. A group of brilliant minds decides to form a startup.

Friends are hired at high salaries. Hype is created on TV, academic conferences, website, internet. Since product development drains money away from really, really important things like buying $1,300 retail Aeron office chairs, that part is neglected. Now everybody sits back, or starts throwing darts or playing other games in the office to improve creative thinking, and plans on what to do with those millions of dollars they will get from their stock options when a big bank decided to buy them out.

It was almost a perfect plan. Only one thing they didn't see coming. It was the stock market collapse soon after the company was formed. Now banks were not going to put dowm hundreds of millions of dollars so easily on a high school project. However, the company's strategic thinkers are absolutely brilliant and creative. Will they be able to survive, or even prosper in this new harsh business climate?