> How about "Do you actually have funding for this project now?"
> I've gone the rounds before with the mad inventor crowd only to
> find later that the budget projections were based on "I'll go find
> vc/angel investors and formalize a business plan after you've
> developed a prototype."

Ugh, tell me about it. How about the ones where you get offered
a share in the multi-million dollar sales. Been there done that got
a drawer full of T-shirts

You don't like to disappoint people but sometimes the economic
reality just means you have to

And it does tend weed out who's really really serious

I think a questionnaire is a good idea because often the customer
doesn't really appreciate or understand what they actually want and
it's easy to slip into too informal an agreement that can come back
to haunt either of you. Formalisation and careful consideration by
both parties is a good way to start off I reckon

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