Get Started | First Cheque Waterlo

Welcome to First Cheque Waterloo! Submit your start-up information here to get AI generated feedback from our active Angel and Venture Investors. The more you're comfortable with providing here, the more accurate our response. Be smart, if its not yours to share: don't.

We treat this information as sensitive and not to be shared, but mistakes happen. We don't have time to steal your idea. Cough cough Zuckerberg cough cough.

First name

Last name

Original Name of business (keep this constant so we don’t get you muddled

working name of the business (if you've changed it)

Free flow: tell me about what you’re creating, what it does, where you’re going with this. Ramble for a paragraph or 20 pages.You can upload documents at the end. Speak in as much jargon as you like and let the AI explain it to our generalist investors.

What problem does your business solve?

What are the alternatives customers will consider to solve this problem?

How is your proposed solution better than the alternatives?

How are the alternatives better than your solution? Be honest and thorough on this one!

How big is the market for your solution now? Be descriptive

How big will the market be for your business in the future? De descriptive

If you had to find one small group of customers who desperately needed your solution ASAP, who would that be and why do they need it?

How far along are you in the process? Something you dreamt up last night? You have a working prototype-system you’re actively selling?

Describe you, or your team’s technical expertise (again speak as you would to your colleagues, unless you’re making up words the AI will explain it to generalist investors)

Describe you, or your team’s business building experience (“lemonade stand when I was six” is acceptable as is “none!”)

You’re probably a smart person: what’s the 1-3 biggest achievements you’d use as proof?

You’re probably a resilient person with grit: what’s the 1-3 things you’d use as proof?

Data control: we want to protect your creation until you’re ready to go public. are you ok if we share your concept with potential investors? “No” is a perfectly acceptable answer here

Are you ok if we share your concept with other people who might help out?“No” is a perfectly acceptable answer here

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We want to make this an amazing resource for early founders. Anything that isn't contributing to that needs to be fixed. Provide feedback... we're investors we really don't have feelings to hurt ;)

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