Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship – Sample Recruitment

Questionnaire

Recruitment questionnaire
1. What is your program of study?

School:

- School of Architecture and Planning

- School of Engineering
- School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
- Sloan School of Management
- School of Science
- Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology

Course #:

[fill in]

Undergraduate or Graduate:

- Undergraduate
- Graduate

2. What level of interest do you have in learning what it is like to work in a startup or to start a
company? Are you very interested, somewhat interested, neither interested nor disinterested,
somewhat disinterested, or very disinterested?

- Very Interested
- Somewhat Interested
- Neither Interested nor Disinterested
- Somewhat Disinterested
- Very Disinterested
- I Don't Know

3. How likely are you to start a company within five years of graduating from your current degree
program? Are you very likely, somewhat likely, neither likely nor unlikely, somewhat unlikely, or very
unlikely?

- Very likely
- Somewhat likely
- Neither likely nor unlikely
- Somewhat unlikely

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 - Very unlikely
- I Don't Know

4. What level of familiarity do you have with the MIT Entrepreneurship Center? Are you very familiar,
somewhat familiar, neither familiar nor unfamiliar, somewhat unfamiliar, or very unfamiliar?

- Very familiar
- Somewhat familiar
- Neither familiar nor unfamiliar
- Somewhat unfamilar
- Very unfamiliar

5. Information About You

Name

[fill in]

Email

[fill in]

Gender

- Male
- Female

Weed out criteria:

- Will accept only if Q1 is School of Engineering, or School of Science, or Course Number is MAS
(Media Lab)
- Will accept a 50/50 split of undergrad/grad and a 50/50 split of male/female
- Will reject if Q2 is Somewhat or Very Disinterested (regarding interest in startups)
- Will reject if Q3 is Somewhat or Very Unlikely (regarding starting a company)
- Will reject if Q4 is Very Familiar or Somewhat Familiar (regarding familiarity with Trust Center)
- Will reject if people give the “neither” or “I don’t know” responses on Q2-3.