Startup questions

Memeburn wants to publicise your startup! Memeburn, now read by more than 90 000 users monthly, is read by key sector players, including some local and international venture capital players. It’s the right place to be profiled.

Answer the questions below and return to us via email, along with an official press release. One of our journalists will call you for further quotes or for clarification.

Please keep answers brief. No more than 100 words per answer.

1. What’s the elevator pitch (Without the elevator music please). No more than 50 words.
2. Where do you get the idea?
3. What is the name of your company/name of the company’s product?
4. Where is it based? What is the URL?
5. When did you launch your startup?
6. In which category does it fall in (ie. Social network, ecommerce, agency, location-based application, games, mobile)?
7. Who is your target audience?
8. How is it funded? Self-funded or VC? If VC, which VC and what value?*
9. Who are the shareholders?
10. Who are the founders? Please state names and give brief background.
11. What makes your startup/site different?
12. What gap in the market does it fill?
13. Why will it change the world?
14. What are your site/startups key features?
15. Do you have an international strategy? If so, what is it?
16. Who are your competitors, local and international?
17. Where do you want to be in five year’s time?
18. What are your contact details?

Office Phone:
CellPhone:
Email:

* answering this question will increase your chances of your startup making it to Memeburn. It’s important that this figure is public. You need only provide a ballpark.

Please copy/paste these questions into a word document and email it back to michelle@memeburn.com.