Interview Questions for Telecom Executive

Time: Approximately 30 minutes

Important: When answering, please try not to have later questions influence your answers to previous questions.

1.     What do you think of incubators in general? Do they provide value beyond what a top-tier, or non-top-tier VC provides? Can VCs and incubators work together?

2.     If you see or don't see value in general incubators, how about vertically specialized ones that have deeper domain expertise in a certain area, like telecom, or even more specialized, in wireless? Would you be worried about cannibalization within the incubator?

3.     Does your firm have an incubator? If so, please answer the “Incubator Questions”.

4.     If your firm doesn’t have an incubator, would you work with an incubator, and how do you foresee that happening (event preliminary thoughts would be appreciated)? Like a first-fund venture fund, would you be concerned about the incentive structure of building the incubated company to “last” or building to “flip”?

5.     In the specialized field of wireless-telecom, do you feel a vertically focused incubator with deep domain expertise, a technology lab, contacts to business and investment professionals within the telecom space, provide value to a wireless startup looking for help?

6.     If your firm has both an incubator and a venture capital fund, how do the mechanics of funded (VC only) and incubated firms work?

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