This survey is meant only for founders who organized a startup (for-profit, nonprofit, coop, etc.) in Huntsville anytime since and including in 2012 If you founded such a venture, please respond to this important volunteer effort to inform the City of Huntsville on how to guide resource allocation in Huntsville. If you did not organize a venture in this period, but know people who did, please pass this link to them so they may respond. Only one response per venture, please (if co-founders, only one response per venture). If you are an investor or play another, non-founder role and wish to respond, please email me separately but please do not respond to this survey. Your personal identity and company details will be kept confidential to me as the researcher. I will provide respondents with a copy of the results. Let me know if you have questions. Thank you, John Whitman john.whitman@uah.edu

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* 1. Your name (as the founder or co-founder)

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* 2. Your email in case I need to follow up

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* 3. Name of your venture

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* 4. Year founded

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* 5. Current organizational status

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* 6. Your firm is principally

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* 7. Your firm is primarily in

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* 8. Please provide a short description of what your venture does

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* 9. Number of partners and employees NOT including yourself

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* 10. Did you consider moving elsewhere to start your venture? If so, where and why?

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* 11. Where did you find your partner(s)? (Choose all that apply.)

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* 12. If you have a mentor(s), where did you find them? (Choose all that apply.)

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* 13. If you have any debt funding, what is its source?

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* 14. If you have any equity funding, including convertible debt, what is its source?

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* 15. Please rank the following resources in terms of how helpful they could have been for your startup effort (1 = Most helpful)

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* 16. What do you feel should be the role of the Chamber of Commerce in helping startups like yours? Please be as specific as possible with ideas/suggestions.

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* 17. What do you feel should be the role of the City in helping startups like yours? Please be as specific as possible with ideas/suggestions.

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* 18. What do you feel should be the role of institutions of higher learning (community colleges/universities) in helping startups like yours? Please be as specific as possible with ideas/suggestions.

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* 19. What do you feel are the greatest obstacles to startups in Huntsville?

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* 20. What is your advice to make Huntsville the easiest place in the nation to start a business or nonprofit?

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* 21. Any other comments welcome

Thank you so much!

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