YEurope 2007 Funding Application Form v0.3 ------------------------------------------ To apply, please send this Application to paul@boehm.org before May 15th 2007, 23:59, CET. ------------------------------------------------------------------- What's the name of your project, URL (if any) and phone number: What is your company going to make/do/offer? For each founder please list: name; age; nationality; city of residence; year, school, degree, and subject for each degree; email address; personal url (if any); present employer and title (if any). Put unfinished degrees in parens. List the main contact first. Separate founders with blank lines. Put an asterisk before the name of anyone *not* able to move to Vienna, Austria July-September 2007 inclusive. Please tell us in a sentence or two about each founder that shows a high level of ability. What's new about what you are doing? What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get? What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet? How will you make money? Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most? For founders who are hackers: what cool things have you built? (Include urls if possible.) How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? What tools will you use to build your project? 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? If you have an online demo, what's the url? How long will it take before you have a prototype? A beta? A version you can charge for? Which development tools would you use to build the prototype? And for the final product? Which founders bring which skills neccessary for your project? Are there any skills neccessary, that you think you lack? What are you going to do about that? Which companies would be most likely to buy you? If one wanted to buy you three months in (September 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take? Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate? Do you have any ideas you consider patentable? What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.) If you're already incorporated, when were you? Who are the shareholders and what percent does each own? If you've had funding, how much, at what valuation(s)? If you're not incorporated yet, please list the percent of the company you plan to give each founder, and anyone else you plan to give stock to. (This question is more for you than us.) If you'll have any major expenses beyond the living costs of your founders, Internet access, and servers, what will they be? If by September 2007 your startup seems to have a significant (say 20%) chance of making you rich, which of the founders would commit to working on it full-time for the next several years? Do any founders have other commitments between July and September 2007 inclusive? Do any founders have commitments in the future (e.g. have been accepted to grad school), and if so what? Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? Will any be working as employees or consultants for anyone else? Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders? If so, how can you safely use it? (Open source is ok of course.) If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, feel free to list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)