The Morpheus – Application Form

Notes:
1. Please provide as much information as possible for us to understand you and your
project better and assess you rightly.
2. We will not let anyone outside of morpheus look at this application form,
including other startups we work with
3. Even if you have a good product that’s live or a great demo, we suggest you
provide as much information in this application as we look at the live product / demo
based on information in this application.
4. Help us keep this application form organized. Save it as <Your_Name OR
Company_Name OR Your Fav_Movie_Name>_TheMorpheus_ApplicationForm_2010.doc
before sending the same.

email this application to: neo@themorpheus.com

1 Start-up Information
a. Startup Name:
b. Website (if any)
c. Address (es):
d. Phone number(s):
2 About Founders:
a. No. of founders:

2.1 Founder 1
[NOTE: repeat section 2.1 for each founder and add details]
a. Name:

b. Phone:

c. e-mail:
d. Personal website url/blog:
e. Social imprint: (twitter / facebook / LinkedIn / google profile, etc)

f. Why do you want to be an entrepreneur?

g. Work Experience:
[Note: Repeat details by adding extra rows for more than one company]
Company Name:
Year / Month of Joining:
Year / Month of Leaving:
Title:
Brief about the work you did there:
Why did you quit?
h. College Education:
[Note: Repeat details by adding extra rows to add more colleges]
 College Name:
Course Name:
Year / Month of Joining:
Year / Month of Leaving or Graduation:
Any other activities or achievements while at college:
i. What is that one crazy / weird thing you have done and you are proud of? (not
related to your venture)

j. Talk about an interesting project, preferably outside of college or work that you
have worked on / created. Include URLs if possible

k. Any other interesting detail about you, you’d want to share?

3 About Team:
a. How long has the team known each other?

b. How did you come to know of each other?

c. Talk about an interesting project, preferably outside of college or work that two or
more of you have work on / created together. Include URLs if possible.

d. How many team members will work on the project full-time?

e. How many team members have other commitments between November 2010 &
March 2011?

f. How many team members can write code

g. Which of the team members has subject matter expertise on the idea you are
working on?

4 About Venture:
a. What is the problem your venture is solving or trying to solve?

b. Why is it an important problem?

c. Describe a typical user who is facing this problem?

d. Why are you solving this particular problem and not some other?

e. What are the alternatives available as a solution to this problem, today?

f. Most successful startups start with a unique insight / approach which is totally
opposite to the current way of doing the same thing. What is your unique insight?

g. What is the current status of the venture? What has been accomplished so far?
Status of product (alpha, beta, idea-stage):

Lines of code written (if applicable):

Revenues (if any):

Monthly burn rate:

Current investments and at what valuations:

(Self funded, Friends, Family, Angel, etc.)

Incorporated as:

Shareholding structure – Current or Proposed:

How long will it take before you can start sales?

5 Details about the venture/idea; how, when, where, why was the venture/idea
started? Basically, the story behind the venture.

6 What are you looking to achieve / accomplish in the next 6 months?

7 If you have an online demo, what's the url? (Please provide details of
username/ password/ promo codes/ invites etc.)

8 How will you make money?

9 What do you expect from Morpheus?