At school I'm the president of our business simulation club (纳思商业模拟社); outside school, six friends and I run UrbanNest. We treat every stall as a full business loop — research, product, costing, promotion, sales, and a written retrospective.
On campus: teaching, not just running
In Grade 11 I opened a year-long elective under the club's name for students on the Chinese gaokao track — 40 minutes a week, taught by me, covering economics fundamentals and how to use AI to turn ideas into working tools.
The classroom fills up. When I asked students what they wanted to learn, their notes said: economics, AI coding, monopoly simulations — and one wrote "I want to learn all of it."
Off campus: UrbanNest
UrbanNest is a ~7-person crew that has run multiple sales, selling roughly 200 flowers in total, with written profit-sharing agreements and debriefs after every event.
We keep a public record of the whole journey at
we-are-urban-nest.lovable.app — including the events that failed.
Case: Qixi 2026 — our first off-campus sale
Aug 19, 2026 · 7 hours near Dongbai Center, Fuzhou
¥382.19cost
≈¥697revenue · 55 transactions
45.17%profit margin (target 30%)
100+stems, nearly sold out
Seven people split into departments — procurement, promotion, sales, finance — under a written profit-sharing plan. A year earlier, the same holiday had earned about ¥80 in total. This time we kept the receipts, wrote the retrospective, and used it to recruit new members in September.
What actually sold: single stems and flowers customers assembled on the spot. What didn't: pre-designed bouquets, our mini-games, and the polaroid add-on — which we'd already seen fail once before. The plan survived contact with the street for about an hour.