Interview

MNO 2009 / BSP 2009

Individual Assignment MNO: Guideline for the Interview with Entrepreneur

Interview Guideline MNO2009

1.1 | | What is the name of your company? What are your contact details |

| | name of company |

| | address of company |

| | telephone number of business owner |

| | email address |

| | (if necessary: other contact details) |

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1.2 | | Do you agree that either I or other students from NUS re-contact you for another interview? |

| | yes / no |

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1.3 | | Gender |

| | female / male |

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1.4 | | How old are you? |

| | years |

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1.5 | | What is your highest degree of education? |

| | degree |

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2.1 | | When was your business established? |

| | year |

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2.2 | | Are you the owner of this business? |

| | yes / no |

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2.3 | | Did you start this business yourself? |

| | yes / no |

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2.4 | | How many full-time employees do you have currently? |

| | number |

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2.5 | | Please describe the line of business or industry you are in (what products / services are you selling?) |

| | line of business/industry |

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3.1 | | Can you tell me a particular difficult situation that you have experienced in your business? How did you deal with this situation? |

| | situation |

| | business owner’s reaction |

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3.2 | | What has been your greatest success? (What was a particularly good situation?) What have you done to achieve this success? (What was critical to achieve this success?) |

| | situation |

| | business owner’s actions to achieve success |

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4.1 | | In the following we are interested in your goals for your business.(What are you most interested in? What targets do you have? What do you want to achieve in your business?)We have written down a number of goals that have been shown to be important. We would like to know, which ones are most important...