01 · Setup

Assemble your strategy committee

You sit on the growth committee of a diversified group. Your mandate: grow the portfolio without losing the discipline of what already works.

You have 100 units of Growth Capital and a ledger of 44 real deal types — ways to build organically, borrow capability through partners, or buy your way in outright. Draft a portfolio, decide how tightly the group should run each move, and be ready to defend the thesis to the room.

  • 1
    Name your committee & challenge. What growth problem are you actually solving for?
  • 2
    Work the deal board. Acquire moves within your 100 GC budget — mix build, borrow and buy however you see fit.
  • 3
    Set the integration level. Place every move into one of three management tiers.
  • 4
    Write the investment thesis. Why this mix, why these tiers, why now.
  • 5
    Read the scorecard. Score each move, see the portfolio's health, and defend it.
Build — 12 organic moves
Borrow — 12 partnership moves
Buy — 20 acquisition moves

Keep it concrete — it will anchor your investment thesis later.

02 · Deal Board

Draft your growth portfolio

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03 · Portfolio Architecture

Decide how tightly to run each move

Every acquisition, partnership and internal build needs a governance home. Fully-managed units get folded into the core; fully autonomous investees are left alone to compound on their own terms.

Assign a tier to every move to continue.
04 · Investment Thesis

Put the logic on paper

A portfolio without a thesis is just a shopping list. Explain the mix.

Need a running start? Click a prompt to drop it in.

Write at least a sentence to continue.
05 · Portfolio Scorecard

Score it, then defend it

Rate every move on strategic fit and value-creation potential. 9–10 combined is a core bet, 7–8 a strong candidate, below 7 goes on the watchlist.

What this portfolio says about you