Take the Northzone Aptitude Test

R U the stuff that world domination dreams are made of? Take the quick 7 question test to help you determine if you're right for us. And we for you....

Question 1

After funding, I won’t have any trouble with recruiting a really, really competitive staff of strategists, marketers and various support functions.

Your answer is soooo late nineties. We’re looking for actual entrepreneurs, not visionaries yearning for an all-orange lounge cum reception & bar.

And no Chief-bearer of the company light either, we hope? We’re frankly very, very NOT interested in managements who have read too much of the “Job titles of the future” in Fast Company.

Question 2

I can personally guarantee that my business will employ some hundred people with profit margins in the 20-30% range when all is up and running the way I envision it.

Sorry, mate. Way to small for us. Try getting a bank loan. Or call your long-lost aunt.

Well it better be much much bigger. That’s what you mean, right?

Question 3

We will expand furiously, the only main obstacle being that we need to recruit to maintain our growth.

Oh dear. Sensing a lack of leverage here.

Furious expansion is what it’s all about. N’est-ce pas?

Question 4

We will be the best of the best in Sweden and top tier in Europe in our industry.

Sorry. Local heroes don’t make it with us. What’s wrong with “global”?

Global leader, we assume. What about outside planet earth, then?

Question 5

We know exactly how to build a global brand through marketing.

Regrettably, few global brands are built through marketing alone.

Well, we don’t either. Few global brands are built through marketing alone

Question 6

Our product is completely unique. We don’t have ANY competition, frankly speaking!

Do that Porter competition thing again, please. ALL products have some kind of competition. Not admitting that is not getting our attention. Basta.

We thought so.

Question 7

Our product will sell itself. And the rest will be corporate history.

Tell it to sell itself to another VC, then. We’re not buyers of that old ploy. In this century, everybody has to sell their stuff. By themselves.

We thought so.