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Angel Investing Questions

I'd like to learn about your business in a structured way. Thanks for bearing with me and answering these questions.

Overview

Company Name

Company url, if any:

Describe your company in 100 *characters* or less.

If you have a demo, what's the url? For non-software, demo can be a video.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based?

How did we get connected / who introduced us?

Founders

Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube. YC has great guidelines to follow: https://www.ycombinator.com/video/

Video introduction

LinkedIn and email of each founder

Team background 1. How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet?

2. Please tell me about an interesting project, preferably outside of class or work, that two or more of you created together. Include urls if possible.

3. Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder?

Idea

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making? (100 word limit)

What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)? (100 word limit)

What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get? (50 word limit)

Who are your top 3 competitors? Who might become competitors? Of these, who do you fear most? (50 word limit)

How do or will you make money? How much could you make? (25 word limit)

How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users (e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network), how will you overcome that? (25 word limit)

Stage

How long have each of you been working on this? Have you been part-time or full-time? Please explain.

What stage are you at?

Which of the following best describes your progress?

Have you been through an accelerator? If so, which one?

Dollars

Please describe the breakdown of the equity ownership in percentages among the founders, employees and any other stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the equity ownership of each founder.

Have you already raised money? If so, from who?

How much are you looking to raise in the round? Around what timeline?