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Unlimited Throws: What If the Carnival Game Was Free? How cooperative business simulation addresses entrepreneurial access inequality Jonathan R. Jones Founder & General Manager, Liana Banyan Corporation A growing body of research confirms what practitioners have long observed: entrepreneurial success correlates more strongly with access to capital and tolerance for repeated failure than with talent, education, or effort. Studies from the Kauffman Foundation, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, and Hurst and Lusardi’s work on household wealth and business formation consistently show that the single best predictor of who starts a business is not skill but financial cushion — the ability to absorb losses and try again. This paper proposes a structural intervention: a cooperative business simulation model that decouples entrepreneurial practice from financial risk, enabling iterative failure at near-zero cost within a shared-knowledge ecosystem. The model is operational and its mechanics are drawn from nine years of development, 1,200+ documented innovations — 99% utility patents, not design — protected by 210 formal claims across 7 applications (eight definite with 9 more out of the first 130 so far have survived a deep dive against the U.S. patent office with no prior art found), and the author’s own documented experience with high-volume iterative failure in competitive domains. ...

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