Business Fundamentals

A working understanding of how to start, validate, launch, and scale a real business. The trunk walks the founder arc from mindset and customer discovery through business models, MVPs, positioning, operations, sales, fundraising, and leadership. Clusters dive deep into the tactical playbooks behind each act — interview techniques, MVP fidelity, pricing, channels, term sheets, hiring, unit economics.

The foundation curriculum that prepares you for any university-level math course — calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics. Builds symbolic fluency from variables and equations through functions, polynomials, exponentials, trigonometry, and the proof and set-theory groundwork that modern mathematics rests on.

A working understanding of finance and investing — how capital markets price risk, how companies create value, how investors build portfolios, and where the math meets human psychology. The trunk gives you the throughline; clusters dive into financial statements, valuation, corporate finance, bonds, portfolio construction, derivatives, and behavioral finance.

Legal literacy — how law actually works. The trunk gives you the operating system: where law comes from, how courts and precedent work, contracts, torts, property, criminal vs civil, and constitutional structure. Clusters dive into reading cases, contract mechanics, IP, your rights with police, and the startup legal toolkit.

A working understanding of the craft of selling — buyer psychology, discovery, qualification, objection handling, negotiation, and pipeline math. The trunk walks one complete deal motion from prospect to close to expansion; clusters dive into outbound mechanics, discovery frameworks, objection playbooks, negotiation, founder-led sales, and enterprise deals.

A working understanding of game theory — the study of how rational agents make decisions when outcomes depend on each other's choices. The trunk gives you the core solution concepts and vocabulary; clusters dive into auctions, bargaining, evolutionary games, mechanism design, and where the rational-actor model fails.