Help TechCrunch offer a valuable new tool for startups (by taking this quick survey)

It's hard to find the expert help you need right at the clutch moment when you're building your startup. We're trying to solve that problem through a product we've been developing this year, called Verified Experts - and we'd like to get some more input on it from startup people like you.

As in real life, where you ask your professional network for recommendations, we're asking startup founders to tell us who the lawyers, growth marketers, brand designers and other experts are who have made/are making a big difference for their company. We use these collective recommendations plus our own research to identify the best experts. Then we publish profiles on the site about them, run guest columns from them that readers have been loving, on topics like growth tactics, immigration tips and term sheet issues.

Now, we're ramping up this effort - and we'd like to get a little more detail from you about the way that you find and work with startup service providers today.

Please take this 2-minute survey and tell us more.

Beyond helping us to create something that can support startup founders everywhere, you'll also get a discount to Extra Crunch - and two lucky winners will get full-access Innovator Pass tickets to Disrupt in SF next month.