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1. Company name
2. Company URL, if applicable
3. What is the product your company is going to build?
4. For each founder, please list: name; age; year, school, degree and subject for each degree; email address; personal url, if any; linkedin & facebook url; and present employer and title (if any). Put unfinished degrees in (parentheses).
5. For each founder please talk about a few interesting projects you've been involved with and helped launch. Limit to 2-3 sentences per founder.
6. Will any of your founders not be able to move to the Bay Area?
yes
no
7. Have any of you launched a product together as a team in the past?
yes
no
8. How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? Have any of the founders not met in person?
9. What makes your product unique? Is there anything technically unique about it?
10. Who are your competitors?
11. How will you make money?
12. If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working on your company?
13. If you have a prototype that is online, what is the url?
14. How long until you have a live minimum viable product? To a solid beta?
15. Are you incorporated? If yes, what does the shareholder structure look like?
16. If we fund you, which of the founders will commit to working exclusively (no school, no other jobs) on this project for the next year?
17. For founders who can't, why not?
18. Do any founders have other commitments from September through December, 2010?
19. Do any founders have commitments in the future (e.g. finishing college, going to grad school), and if so what?
20. Have any of your founders tried creating a startup in the past? If yes, what happened to those companies.
21. Have any of your founders contributed to an open source project? If yes, which one(s).
22. Have any of your founders created a video game in the past? If yes, please describe.
23. Have any of you been involved in an 'underground' scene having to do with computers? (ie. demoscene, cracking, circuit bending, etc)
24. Please describe some of the accomplishments your founders are most proud of.