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what is your company going to make?
] for each founder, list the following details ...
9/35] Please tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder that shows a high level of ability.
10/35] What's new about what you're doing?
11/35] What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?
12/35] What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet?
13/35] How will you make money?
14/35] Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?
15/35] For founders who are hackers: what cool things have you built? (Include urls if possible.)
16/35] How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet?
17/35] What tools will you use to build your product?
18/35] If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written?
19/35] If you have an online demo, what's the url?
20/35] How long will it take before you have a prototype? A beta? A version you can charge for?
21/35] Which companies would be most likely to buy you?
22/35] If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take?
23/35] Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?
24/35] Do you have any ideas you consider patentable?
25/35] What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.)