Pak Angels – Evaluating Early Stage Startups

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Contact & Startup Information

Your Email Address *

Startup Name *

Contact Phone Number (with country code) *

Your Name *

Full name of the primary contact

Re-enter Your Email Address *

Must match the email address above

LinkedIn Profile Address *

LinkedIn profile or company page URL

Team & Founders

What is the founding team's background and how did you come together to work on this specific startup idea? *

Describe each founder and how the team formed around this idea

Why do you think you are the right team to build this startup? *

Highlight relevant experience, domain expertise, and past achievements

What's your unique insight or special skill set that will make you the winning team within this category? *

What do you know or do that others don't?

How do you resolve disagreements between the founders? *

Describe your conflict resolution process

If you and your co-founder(s) part ways in the next year, what would be the most likely reason? *

Be honest and thoughtful

What are the key positions you want to hire for next? *

Roles critical to your next stage of growth

How are you thinking about attracting the best talent and developing your team? *

Recruitment strategy, culture, and team development

How do you typically make tough decisions and what are some of the heuristics and mental models you employ? *

Examples welcome

How do you develop yourself as a founder? *

Mentorship, learning habits, communities, etc.

Vision & Mission

What is your vision for this company? *

Where do you want to be in 5–10 years?

How do you define success? *

Both for the company and personally

What really drives you? *

Your personal motivation and the deeper why behind this startup

Market

What market are you going after? *

Define your target market clearly

How big is it and how big can it become? *

Include TAM, SAM, SOM if available

Why is now a good time for your startup to enter the market? *

Timing, trends, and conditions that favour your entry

If others have tried and failed, how is your approach different and what is possible today that wasn't yesterday?

Leave blank if no prior attempts exist in your space

What is the competitive landscape like? *

Direct, indirect competitors, and substitutes

What are your potential customers using now to solve the problem or address their needs? *

Current alternatives and workarounds customers rely on

Product

What is your core product and value proposition? *

What you build and the key benefit it delivers

What differentiates it from the competition and how defensible is it? *

Moats: IP, network effects, switching costs, brand, etc.

Customers & Traction

Who are your customers and how have you validated their need and appetite for your product? *

Interviews, surveys, pilots, letters of intent, paying customers, etc.

What is your traction to date? *

Users, revenue, growth rate, partnerships — whatever is most relevant

How are you enabling your customers to find your product? *

Acquisition channels: SEO, social, sales, partnerships, word of mouth, etc.

Business Model & Financials

How are you or will you generate revenue? *

Revenue model: subscriptions, transactional, SaaS, marketplace, licensing, etc.

What is the scope for scale and what are the key growth drivers of the business? *

How does the business grow over time?

What are you choosing to measure and why? *

Key metrics and KPIs you track

How much, if anything, have you raised so far and how did you use that capital? *

Amount, source (bootstrapped, angels, grants) and use of funds

Which founding hypotheses have you already proved or disproved? *

What have you learned from experiments and validation so far?

What are you trying to prove or disprove with this round? *

Milestones this funding will help validate

How much capital do you estimate you need to achieve the next set of milestones? *

What runway would this amount give you? (How many more months you can run your company without further investment) *

How many months can you run without further investment?

What are the key risk factors that you need to navigate? *

Market, operational, regulatory, technical, financial risks

Why might this business fail to succeed? and what is your plan to mediate to this situation. For example, Is your business dependent on imports or any other political instability situations? If yes, what are your plans to survive *

Be specific: e.g. import dependency, political instability, key person risk

What are the unit economics of your business? *

CAC, LTV, gross margin, contribution margin, payback period, etc.

Confirmation

Investor Confirmation *

By checking this box, I confirm that I am either an overseas Pakistani or accredited investor in Pakistan or in the country where I reside. I also confirm that I am interested in joining Pak Angels Inc as an Angel Investor and I give Pak Angels Inc permission to contact me with more details and keep me updated on all developments in Pakistan around startups and the startup ecosystem.

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