Projects to do

A cloth mill sells to traders, but selling clothes under its own name needs very different skills, risks and customers.

Founders explain failure very differently, and the way they tell the story shapes trust with customers, staff and future backers.

Student teams drift when exams arrive, and small disagreements about effort quietly end ventures that had a good idea.

Teams are most hopeful before a launch, which is exactly when imagining how it could fail is cheap and useful.

Families spend on uniforms children soon outgrow, but a reuse scheme must decide between donations and sales and still pay its workers.

Many student ventures only hear tough feedback after pitching to real investors, when the chance to fix the gaps is gone.

A popular local bakery must choose between opening another shop and building home delivery, and each choice stretches the owner differently.

When a small store stops working, owners often vanish without telling customers or suppliers, which harms trust and their own name.

Children of Goans settled in the Gulf, the UK, Canada and other Indian cities often grow up without Konkani, and a founder wants to know whether families would pay for a learning product before building one.