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1. How did you hear about us? *

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2. Are you the founder or one of the co-founders of the business? *

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3. What is the name of your business? *

4. We are interested in the web presence of your business. Does your business currently have any of the following? *

5. In what year was your business founded? *

6. Is your business 2 years and older? *

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7. Can your business absorb funding between 20,000$ - 1,500,000$ ? *

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8. Does your business employ 5 - 100 Persons? *

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9. What is the form of your business? *

Limited Liability
Limited by guarantee
Sole proprietor
Partnership

10. What stage of development best describes your business? *

11. What primary sector is being impacted by your business's activities? *

12. Do you have some specific profit margin in mind?

13. What are the financial goals of your business?

14. What annual profit margins would you be happy achieving on average? *

15. Individuals can also have non-financial motives for launching new business. Does your business have the explicit intent of creating social or environmental impacts? *

16. Which of the following impact objectives does your business currently seek to address? *

17. Describe the social / environmental problem your business is trying to solve.

18. How is your product or service solving that problem?

19. What is the demographic group of the primary beneficiaries targeted by your business's activities?

20. What is the size of your beneficiary population? *

21. Does your business regularly track itself against any of the Impact Reporting Investment Standards? *

22. What is your model (particularly, what is your product/service, your main revenue generating activities (up to 3) and your distribution channels)? *

23. What is the current operational model of your business? *

24. Who is your target customer? *

25. Who are your 3 main competitors? *

26. What are their main strengths and weaknesses? *

27. What was your business's total earned revenue:(please do not include any philanthropic investments or donations in this amount)? *

28. Profit is the income after all expenses and taxes have been deducted. Roughly speaking, what was your business's profit margin (as a percentage of total investment) for calendar year 2020? *

29. How many people worked for your business? (please exclude contract workers who are not on the ' official payroll)

30. Full-time employees?

31. Part-time employees?

32. Seasonal employees?

33. Volunteers?

34. How much did your business borrow / Need to borrow?

35. In calendar year 2020?

36. Since founding?

37. How much additional investment are you planning to secure for your business? ( in the next 12 months )

In the next 12 months

38. Equity financing

39. Debt financing

40. Philanthropic support

41. How much additional investment are you planning to secure for your business? ( over the next 3 years )

Over the next 3 years

42. Equity financing

43. Debt financing

44. Philanthropic support

45. Founders

46. Please provide the following information about Founder 1 listed above:

47. What is the age of Founder 1?

48. What is the gender of Founder 1?

49. What is the highest level of education of Founder 1?

50. Why is your team uniquely qualified to run this company?

51. Why have you chosen to apply to this program?

52. What other potential benefits would you look for from Investment Readness programs that are not included in the above list?

53. What other potential benefits would you look for from Investment Readness programs that are not included in the above list? *

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54. Which year did you attend that Investment Readness program?

(Please enter the year that you started the program using numbers only. If multiple programs were attended, please enter the earliest year of attendance)

55. Is there anything else you would like to add that has not been captured above?

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