First Deal
- What you do
- Step into the shoes of a first-time buyer working toward the purchase of a small business.
- What you learn
- How an acquisition unfolds from search to closing, and the decisions a first-time buyer faces along the way.
Why DAVABLE™ GAMES Biz Games
Learn business by playing business™
Most people learn to buy, sell or broker a business the expensive way: by doing it once, with real money on the line. DAVABLE™ GAMES offers a better first lesson. Four short games turn the key decisions of a small-business deal into practice, so owners, buyers and professionals can build judgment before it counts. Sponsors put their brand in front of exactly those people, at the moment they are thinking about business decisions.
1What DAVABLE™ GAMES is
DAVABLE™ GAMES is an educational game platform built around one idea: learn business by playing business™. It brings four business games together under one brand and one shared interface, “4 games in 1 app.” Each game covers a different stage of a small-business transaction: buying a first business, judging a deal, getting a company ready to sell and brokering the sale.
It serves three audiences at once: business owners and would-be owners who want to understand the process, professionals who advise on or take part in business transactions, and sponsors who want to reach both groups. The games share one header and menu at play.davable.com/biz, so players move between them easily and a sponsor’s banner goes with them through every game.
DAVABLE™ GAMES is built on practice, not theory. Its scenarios draw on two decades of commercial real estate investment, business brokerage and formal mergers-and-acquisitions training. They are simple enough to play in minutes and true enough to teach something real.
2What the games do
Each game puts you in a decision-making role and asks you to make the calls a real participant would make. Good reasoning is rewarded, and common mistakes are exposed without the cost of making them in real life.
Close or Walk
- What you do
- Review a business for sale and make the call: close the deal or walk away.
- What you learn
- Deal discipline: reading the numbers, spotting red flags and knowing that walking away is often the right answer.
Be a Biz Broker
- What you do
- Play the role of a business broker, with modes for real estate agents and the general public.
- What you learn
- How business brokerage works, how it differs from selling property and how a sale is guided to the finish line.
ExitReady Biz
- What you do
- Work through how ready a business is to sell, organized by industry.
- What you learn
- What makes a business sellable, and the value drivers an owner can improve before going to market.
Built for how busy people learn
- Decisions, not trivia. The focus is judgment: weighing price, risk, financing and readiness, not memorizing definitions.
- No accounts, no points, no leaderboards. These are business games, not a competition. There is nothing to sign up for, and any progress stays in your own browser on your device. Nothing is sent to us.
- One shared app. All four games sit inside one interface with a common header, so the experience feels like a single product and a sponsor’s banner stays the same across every game.
Together, the games cover the full arc of a small-business transaction: what a buyer looks for, what a seller should fix, how a broker brings the two together and when a deal simply does not make sense.
3Why DAVABLE™ GAMES exists
Buying or selling a small business is one of the biggest financial decisions many people ever make, yet the education available for it is thin. Buyers often learn about cash flow, financing and due diligence only after they have signed a letter of intent. Owners often discover what their business is worth, and what is holding its value down, only when they try to sell. Real estate agents asked to help with a business sale find that skills from property deals do not transfer cleanly.
The usual answers have real limits. Books and courses take time busy people rarely have. Seminars are one-time events. Advisors are valuable, but they usually arrive after someone has already decided to act. What has been missing is a low-stakes, low-effort way to build intuition before the real decision.
DAVABLE™ GAMES fills that gap. Games let people practice judgment, not just absorb information. When a player closes a deal a seasoned buyer would walk away from, the lesson lands harder than any paragraph could. Playing many scenarios builds pattern recognition, which is exactly what experienced dealmakers rely on.
There is a second reason. The people who serve business owners, including banks, accountants, attorneys, chambers of commerce and brokerages, need better ways to engage their audiences. Newsletters and webinars compete for the same crowded attention. A useful, branded tool that clients actually want to use keeps a sponsor in front of them far longer. DAVABLE™ GAMES was designed for that from the start.
4Who DAVABLE™ GAMES is for
Players
- Aspiring and first-time business buyers who want to understand acquisitions before committing money or signing documents.
- Business owners thinking about an eventual exit who want to see their company through a buyer’s eyes.
- Real estate agents and brokers asked to help clients sell a business.
- Business brokers, consultants and advisors who want a teaching tool for clients or a training aid for newer team members.
- Students and career changers exploring entrepreneurship, brokerage or M&A.
Sponsors
- Business chambers of commerce looking for a practical member benefit with ongoing value.
- Lenders and banks, especially in small-business and SBA lending, who gain when buyers arrive better prepared.
- Accounting, legal and advisory firms that want to be top of mind when a transaction comes up.
- Brokerages and professional networks looking for a distinctive way to engage prospects and educate clients.
Sponsorships fit local, regional, national and multi-location companies alike, from a single-office firm to an organization with many branches.
5How sponsors benefit
The most effective sponsorship is attached to something people genuinely value. A DAVABLE™ GAMES sponsor does not interrupt anyone. The sponsor is the organization that brought them a useful tool.
One simple sponsor plan and an add-on
Complete Sponsor: your own branded channel at play.davable.com/your-company, with your logo in the sponsor banner on the games home page and all four games (the header stays DAVABLE™ GAMES). One update on our side changes your banner everywhere at once. The plan also lets you show your channel, all four games, on your own website.
Custom & co-branded scenario packs: available with the Complete Sponsor plan on a project-by-project basis. DAVABLE™ GAMES builds new game scenarios around a sponsor’s business, brand or industry, such as a lender’s own deal scenarios, a franchise brand’s resale scenarios or an industry pack. All scenarios stay fictional and educational. Packs suit lenders, franchise brands, industry associations and advisory firms with a niche.
Why it works
- Positive brand association. Your name is linked to education and help, not a sales pitch.
- Repeat exposure. Short, replayable games bring people back, and your brand is there every time.
- A qualified audience. People who choose to play business-deal games are interested in business decisions, the exact audience lenders, advisors and chambers want to reach.
- A benefit you can share. Chambers can offer the games to members, and firms can share them with clients, turning the sponsorship into a service rather than an ad.
- Simple to start. Value-based annual pricing is matched to your reach, whether you are a local, regional, national or multi-location company. Monthly fees are available under the Complete Sponsor plan.
In short
People make better business decisions when they have practiced them first.
By turning the essential decisions of buying, judging, brokering and preparing a business for sale into four approachable games, DAVABLE™ GAMES lowers the cost of learning for players and creates a credible, value-driven channel for the organizations that serve them. For players, it is a safe place to make mistakes. For sponsors, it is a way to be remembered as the one who helped. Either way, the idea is the same: learn business by playing business™.