We want to heartily thank the dozens of founders who have completed our survey, and remind those of you who haven’t done so to please fill it out.

We’re thrilled with the response we’ve had to the survey. A vast range of founders have taken a few minutes to fill out our 23 questions, and we’re starting to get a picture of what happened in the community last year.

You can find the survey here, and it only takes two to four minutes to fill it out.

We’ve already done preliminary calculations on what we’ve received, and made our first presentation to a government department. We can’t reveal the findings yet but here is what we can say: policy makers’ interest in startups has never been stronger.

From the new prime minister on down, the federal government is embracing innovation as a pillar of economic development. Same goes for the provincial governments. They want reliable information on the startup community so they can design better policies.

The Entrevestor data analysis is most authoritative source of information on the East Coast startup community, but we need your help to complete it. We need you to provide us with information on the surveys. We promise it will be 100 percent confidential.

The result will be a better information group of policy makers as they design programs to help your business.