Interview of an Entrepreneur – Report
Please choose an entrepreneur in your community and interview him/her. To help you write a report,
please use the questions that apply to your business person and the type of business s/he owns/
manages.
These questions serve as your guide, so you may choose to ask different questions to learn more
about business operations.
Entrepreneur: Jordy Perez
Company: Cash 4 Keys
Located: Miami, Florida
Company: Real estate solution company that buys properties and sells them for a profit.
Write a 2-3 page report and submit it in D2L box before the deadline. Please include the name of the
person whom you interviewed, the title, the company name and address, the contact information.
1. Does the company have a strategic plan?
2. Does the company have a mission statement? Why or Why not?
3. What does the owner consider the company’s strengths and weaknesses to be?
4. What opportunities and threats does the owner perceive?
5. What image is the owner trying to create for the business?
6. Has the effort been successful? Do you agree?
7. Which of the generic competitive strategies is the company following?
8. Who are the company’s primary competitors?
9. How does the owner rate his or her chances for success in the future? Use a number between
1(lowest)-10(highest).
10. What, if any, generalizations can you draw from the interview?
11. Did he or she prepare a business plan before starting the company? Why or why not?
12. If the entrepreneur did not create a plan, is he or she considering doing so now?
13. If the entrepreneur did create a plan, what benefits did he or she gain from the process?
14. How long did it take to complete the plan?
15. How did he or she put the plan to use during the startup phase?
16. Does he or she intend to keep the business plan updated?
17. What advice does he or she have to offer another entrepreneur about to begin writing a
business plan?
18. Please ask about the form of ownership they chose. Why did they choose that form of
ownership? If the entrepreneur operates a partnership, please ask questions below:
19. Do they have a written partnership agreement?
20. Are their skills complementary?
21. How do they divide responsibility for running their company?
22. How do they handle decision making?
23. What do they do when disputes and disagreements arise?
