Atlantic Canadian Startup Survey – Impacts of Covid-19

How Has Covid-19 Impacted Atlantic Canadian Startups?

We want to produce a snapshot of how Atlantic Canadian founders and their companies are bearing up through the current pandemic and economic downturn. Entrevestor and Pivotal Coaching are partnering to conduct a two-minute survey on how the crisis is impacting startups, scaleups and other high-growth, innovation-driven businesses in Atlantic Canada.

We’ve devised an eight-question survey for these companies. If you head a company producing an innovative product for the global market, we’d like you to complete this survey.

The goal is to provide an immediate benchmark on how the pandemic is impacting the region’s startups and scaleups. We plan to release the results on the week of April 20, giving policy-makers and the community information on how the crisis is impacting employment, revenues and resources in the startup segment.

We’ve made this survey anonymous, and held it to just a few questions. Please take about two minutes to complete it so the community can better understand this rapidly changing situation. We’ll run this survey until the evening of April 17.

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* 1. How many paid employees did you have in February 2020? (Part-time counts as half a position.)

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* 2. How many paid employees do you have now?

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* 3. In the next three months, from your current staff level, do you expect to:

Increase staff more than 10%

Increase staff 1-10%

Maintain current staff levels

Decrease staff 1-10%

Decrease staff more than 10%

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* 4. In the second quarter (Apr-Jun), do you expect your revenues compared to the first quarter will

Increase more than 10%?

increase 1-10%?

Be unchanged?

Decrease 1-30%?

Decrease more than 30%?

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* 5. In the next six months, rate whether leadership or sales will be more important for your business. (1 = all leadership, 50 = both, 100 = all sales.)

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* 6. In the next nine to 18 months, rate whether leadership or sales will be more important for your business. (1 = all leadership, 50 = both, 100 = all sales.)

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* 7. As the head of your company, you have the ability to focus, manage and get through the pandemic. Indicate how strongly you agree with this statement, with 1 meaning you strongly disagree and 100 meaning you strongly agree.

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* 8. Do you believe your business will survive until the end of the year?

Yes