Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative
INCUBATOR APPLICATION
INDIVIDUAL INTERESTED IN JOINING
AN ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM
Date:
1. Your Contact information: Name, email, cell phone number, degree program,
specialization and year.
2. Please identify your primary skill and work experience.
3. Identify your top 3 key passions (be relatively specific).
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4. Would you prefer being added to an entrepreneurial business venture team or a
social/nonprofit venture team? Please check one box only.
Prefer an entrepreneurial business venture team ……! GO TO Question 5
Prefer a social/nonprofit venture team ………………! GO TO Question 6
Either one is OK ……………………………! ANSWER Both Questions 5 & 6
5. Identify top 3 key industries YOU would be most interested in developing a new
venture in or working in (be relatively specific).
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6. Identify top 3 key nonprofit sectors YOU would be most interested in developing
a new venture in or working in (be relatively specific).
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Summarize, based on what you know now, why you think you will be successful
as an entrepreneur and how will you contribute to an entrepreneurial team?
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Why are you applying to the Kogod Incubator? What do you hope to get out of
this educational experience?
9. Specify any entrepreneurship classes and classes related to your venture interests
that you have taken and list the University and the instructor.
10. Academic and/or Professional Referrals – Did an academic or professional
recommend that you apply to the Incubator? If yes, please provide the name(s),
organization and email addresses.
11. Identify YOUR most important knowledge and skills for any new venture
proposal you might work on.
YOUR most important knowledge and skills for any
new venture proposal you might work on:
Knowledge:
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Skills:
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Knowledge – Examples: Knowledge of an industry/market/geographic area or
knowledge of an area of business, such as marketing, finance, accounting, strategy, etc. To
the extent possible it will be valuable for you to be as specific about the critical knowledge,
the knowledge you possess.
Skill – “The ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something
well.” Skills may be hard skills (e.g., app programming skills) or soft skills (e.g., networking,
people skills). To the extent possible it will be valuable for you to be as specific about the
critical skills, the skills you possess.
Please attach a copy of your CV.
American University is a tobacco and smoke free campus. Applications are considered
without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, nationality,
disability, socioeconomic standing, and intellectual viewpoint.