data/claims/adventure-capitalist.yamlAdVenture Capitalist (secondary)
Game: Adventure capitalist.
Pecorella, crediting the AdCap wiki, gives AdVenture Capitalist's Lemonade Stand growth 1.07, base cost 4, and 1.67/s each; with the first free, the price is . adventure-capitalist/lemonade-stand
About: Adventure capitalist Exponential cost scaling
T2 primary statementThe Math of Idle Games, Part IWith AdVenture Capitalist Lemonade Stands, the $rate_{growth} = 1.07$, $cost_{base} = 4^*$, and $production_{base} = 1.67/sec$.The Math of Idle Games, Part IIt’s technically 3.738, since you get the first one for free and it’s actually the second one that costs 4.Checked by claude, 2026-10-20 — read the 2017-07-20 Wayback capture of the postTier 2 because the author, writing on the publisher's developer blog, produced AdCap's mobile version and gives these as the game's values. He credits the AdCap wiki for the table that follows, so the provenance is partly secondary. AdCap's code isn't public; measuring stand prices in the game would make this T4. The curve itself is the family spec adventure-capitalist/price-formula, which covers all ten businesses from the wiki's table; its Lemonade Stand row has these same numbers.
Cited by: Exponential cost scaling
Initial costs are $3.738 for the Lemonade Stand and $60 for the Newspaper Delivery; each later business costs 12 times the one before, up to $25,798,901,760 for the Oil Company. adventure-capitalist/base-costs
About: Adventure capitalist Exponential cost scaling
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{
"Lemonade Stand": 3.738,
"Newspaper Delivery": 60,
"Car Wash": 720,
"Pizza Delivery": 8640,
"Donut Shop": 103680,
"Shrimp Boat": 1244160,
"Hockey Team": 14929920,
"Movie Studio": 179159040,
"Bank": 2149908480,
"Oil Company": 25798901760
}Earth Businesses table, “Initial Cost ($)” columnBusinesses · Earth Businesses, Additional NotesAs far as formulas are concerned, the first stand has a price equivalent to 4/1.07 ≈ 3.738$The Math of Idle Games, Part I — the table that follows, an image, gives the same costs for the first five businessesHere are the actual values for AdVenture Capitalist (thank you AdCap wiki!)Checked by claude, 2026-10-20 — read the Earth Businesses table in the 2026-02-28 Wayback capture of the wiki page (the 2017-09-03 capture has the same table) and the table image (anthony_idle_1.png) in the 2017-07-20 capture of Pecorella's post; from the Car Wash on, each cost is 12 times the one beforeThe Lemonade Stand's 3.738 stands in for the free first stand: the second costs $4, and 4/1.07 ≈ 3.738 (adventure-capitalist/lemonade-stand).
Each business's coefficient, the factor on its price per one owned, falls by 0.01 per business from the Newspaper Delivery's 1.15 to the Oil Company's 1.07; the Lemonade Stand's is also 1.07. adventure-capitalist/growth-rates
About: Adventure capitalist Exponential cost scaling
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{
"Lemonade Stand": 1.07,
"Newspaper Delivery": 1.15,
"Car Wash": 1.14,
"Pizza Delivery": 1.13,
"Donut Shop": 1.12,
"Shrimp Boat": 1.11,
"Hockey Team": 1.1,
"Movie Studio": 1.09,
"Bank": 1.08,
"Oil Company": 1.07
}Earth Businesses table, “Coefficient” columnBusinesses · NotesIs multiplied by the coefficient for each subsequent buy.The Math of Idle Games, Part I — the table that follows, an image, gives the same coefficients for the first five businessesHere are the actual values for AdVenture Capitalist (thank you AdCap wiki!)Checked by claude, 2026-10-20 — read the Earth Businesses table in the 2026-02-28 Wayback capture of the wiki page and the table image in the 2017-07-20 capture of Pecorella's postRevenue per second before upgrades, revenue per cycle ÷ cycle time, runs from the Lemonade Stand's $1.67 ($1 every 0.6 s) to the Oil Company's $804,816 ($29,668,737,024 every 36,864 s). adventure-capitalist/revenue-per-second
About: Adventure capitalist Exponential cost scaling
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{
"Lemonade Stand": 1.67,
"Newspaper Delivery": 20,
"Car Wash": 90,
"Pizza Delivery": 360,
"Donut Shop": 2160,
"Shrimp Boat": 6480,
"Hockey Team": 19440,
"Movie Studio": 58320,
"Bank": 174960,
"Oil Company": 804816
}Earth Businesses table, “Initial Productivity” columnBusinesses · NotesRevenue / Production Cycle Time.The Math of Idle Games, Part I — the table that follows, an image, gives the same rates for the first five businessesHere are the actual values for AdVenture Capitalist (thank you AdCap wiki!)Checked by claude, 2026-10-20 — read the Earth Businesses table in the 2026-02-28 Wayback capture of the wiki page and divided each row's initial revenue by its initial time: every quotient equals the Initial Productivity column, which rounds the Lemonade Stand's 1/0.6 to 1.67Cycle times are 0.6, 3, 6, 12, 24, 96, 384, 1,536, 6,144, and 36,864 s; revenue per cycle is $1, $60, $540, $4,320, $51,840, $622,080, $7,464,960, $89,579,520, $1,074,954,240, and $29,668,737,024, in the order of the value. Income is linear in the count only up to 24 owned: the wiki says each business's cycle time “Gets halved at 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, and 400” owned, and Pecorella notes the stacking ×2 at 25 and 50 Lemonade Stands.
A business's next price is its initial cost times its coefficient raised to the number owned, with a fixed coefficient for each business. adventure-capitalist/price-formula
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"claim": "adventure-capitalist/revenue-per-second",
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}NotesIs multiplied by the coefficient for each subsequent buy.Businesses · Earth Businesses, Additional Notes — n counts the businesses owned after the purchase, so the term for one purchase is initial cost × coefficient^ownedThe equation to calculate the price of a business is Summation(Initial Cost * (Coefficient)^(n-1)The Math of Idle Games, Part I — the same rule, which the post applies to the Lemonade Stand$cost_{next} = cost_{base} \times (rate_{growth})^{owned}$Checked by claude, 2026-10-20 — read the Notes and Additional Notes of the 2026-02-28 Wayback capture of the wiki page and the 2017-07-20 capture of Pecorella's postThe value is a family curve spec for the cost-curve widget: one curve per business, with the base, ratio, and production read from base-costs, growth-rates, and revenue-per-second. Single-curve views show the Lemonade Stand. Its curve has the same numbers as adventure-capitalist/lemonade-stand, which cites Pecorella for them.