VF Guides: Entrepreneur In-Take Form

BASIC INFORMATION
Founder Name*
Startup Name*
Startup Website
Email*
Phone
ABOUT YOUR COMPANY
Address*
City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code
Number of Employees*
What stage do you consider your company to be in?*
- Identified Problem
- Identified Solution
- Testing Solution
- Generating Sales
- Scaling
Customer Pain & Solution
Please describe the problem (customer pain point) you are trying to solve*
What is your solution? What is innovative about your solution, technology, business model, etc?*
Customer Acquisition
How do you define your target customers? What is the total addressable market size? If unknown, write “unknown”.*
What traction have you made to date to validate your idea?*
What are you doing in terms of marketing to generate interest in your solution?*
Industry
Which of these industries best describes your startup?*
- General
- High Tech
- Energy / CleanTech
- Healthcare / Life Sciences
- Social Impact
- Life-style
Competitors
Which organizations compete with your value offering?*
Founding Team
Please share some background on your team members.*
Mentoring
Please describe one or two specific ways you believe VF Guides can support you as you grow your company.*
Please select up to 3 areas of expertise you hope to access from a mentor.*
- Market Fit
- Solution/product development
- Business Model
- Marketing Operations
- Sales
- Operations
- Team & Organizational Design
- Financing
- Legal, Compliance, & IP
- Systems & Technology
- Other
Which of these areas of support will you seek from your mentor?*
- Industry-specific expertise
- General functional expertise (marketing, design, sales, etc)
- Sounding board / feedback
- Work/Life Balance
- Managing a growing organization
- Company culture
- Introductions to mentor’s network (investors, industry, customers, etc)
- Other
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Ethno Racial Identification
- Black
- East and/or Southeast Asian
- Hispanic, Latinx, and/or Spanish
- Indigenous
- Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, or Polynesian
- Middle Eastern and/or North African
- South Asian
- White or Caucasian
- I prefer not to say
Gender Identity
- Female
- Male
- Non-binary
- I prefer not to say
- I prefer to Self-describe
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VF Guides: Entrepreneur In-Take Form

BASIC INFORMATION

ABOUT YOUR COMPANY

Customer Pain & Solution

Customer Acquisition

Industry

Competitors

Founding Team

Mentoring

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION