We have been preparing some great questions for an ongoing series of Entrepreneurial interviews with some up and coming entrepreneurs and also some very successful entrepreneurs. On a recent brainstorm with my brother Matthew he asked me: Are you going to send any of the interview questions to our members of YoungEntrepreneur.com?
That was a great idea! We have almost 35,000 members on our forum and over 600 subscribers to our Blog and many of you are already running successful companies and contribute to your own Blog as well. The answers that our members and readers provide will most definitely be very interesting and make for a great read!
So, here is the challenge for you!
Answer the 20 questions we wrote below on your own Blog. Add one other interesting question you wish you could ask other entrepreneurs (this is question #20). Talk about the various entrepreneurial adventures you have been on recently! Then link back to us here at YoungEntrepreneur.com/blog and comment so we can all go and check out your answers on your Blog.
We will then compile a complete list of the entrepreneurs who participated in the Questions and Answers and do a brief spotlight on the top 10 most interesting responses! Matthew, Evan and I will then pick one lucky person with our favorite overall interview and one person who came up with the best original question not on our list and buy you each one iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED™ Special Edition, 8GB – Personalized with Congratulations from YoungEntrepreneur.com (engraved on the back.)
Without further adieu, here are the questions:
List the name of your company and website.
- What ignited the spark in you to start a new business venture or to make significant changes in an existing business?
- What is your definition of success and has your company achieved it?
- To what do you attribute your company’s recent achievements?
- How important have good employees and team members been to your success?
- What three pieces of advice would you give to high school or college students who want to become entrepreneurs?
- What have been some of your failures, and what have you learned from them?
- Describe/outline your typical day?
- Where did your organizations funding/capital come from and how did you go about getting it?
- What stops you from throwing in the towel and giving up when you are frustrated?
- Do you believe there is some sort of pattern or formula to becoming a successful entrepreneur?
- Who has influenced you most and been your greatest inspiration?
- What book has inspired you the most?
- How do you go about marketing your business? What has been your most successful form of marketing?
- In one word, characterize your life as an entrepreneur.
- Excluding yours, what company or business do you admire the most?
- How do you achieve balance in your life? Or do you?
- Where you see yourself and your business in 5 years? 10 years?
- What’s your exit strategy?
- If we could introduce you to anyone, who would it be and why? (you never know who we know!)
- If you were conducting this interview, what question would you ask?
To your success,
Adam Toren
