What is your background? (relevant to this project) (limit 20 words) *
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What is your role? (Lead inventor, etc.) *
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Who are the members of your team? (Try to limit to no more than 3 team members) *
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What problem(s) are you solving? *
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What do you do? (specifically; i.e., “We sell hardware”; “We make bikes”. “We write music”, etc.) *
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Who do you help? Or, who are your customers/users? *
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How do you know this is a meaningful problem for this group? *
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Why is now the right time for this? (Specifically, what factors/conditions exist such that now is the right time to pursue this idea?) *
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What is your solution? *
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How does it work? *
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Who else is (or might be) doing this? *
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Why didn’t this solution exist before? *
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How did you (and/or your team) come up with this idea? *
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Is your idea helping to make the world a better place? How so? *
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Can it scale? (Please explain) *
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How are you going to reach your customers/users? (Try to list at least 3 ways) *
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How will you make money? (If that’s not the goal, what is the goal and how will you know that you’ve attained it?) *
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What milestones have you already achieved? (In the past year; 6 months, 3 months?) *
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What do you hope to achieve in the near future? (3 months? 6 months? year?) *
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If you had to pick one resource that you need the most right now (time, money, connections, a software developer, 10 new customers, 1000 loyal users, etc.) what would it be and why? (please pick only one and explain why you chose that one.) *
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What if you couldn’t work on this idea anymore - what else would you do? *