Apply

Please think about your answers carefully, and submit one response per team as a plain text file to rpm10@rpmvc.com by Midnight EST on Sunday February 8, 2009. Please limit your answer for each question to a couple of paragraphs.

  1. Please list the members of your team, their experience, education, and describe how you know each other.
  2. What is the problem you want to solve?
  3. Describe your concept/idea/vision.
  4. Who is/are your potential customer(s) or users?
  5. What companies (if any) would be competitors to your idea?
  6. Why will you be able to implement this better than others?
  7. What are some of the ways your idea could make money?
  8. Describe any competitive activities you have participated in.
  9. What would be the most enjoyable part of working on this project?
  10. What are some of your hobbies?
  11. Why do you want to do this?
  12. Please assess what resources (people/skills, hardware, software, etc.) you will need to build your prototype.
  13. Give examples of cool things you have done both in and out of school.
  14. What does your best friend think about your idea?
  15. If your company appears to be taking off at the end of the ten weeks, would any of your team members be willing to stay with your company fulltime