{"id":1906,"date":"2014-05-19T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T05:39:39","slug":"questions-for-a-business-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2014\/05\/questions-for-a-business-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for a Business Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I came across an intriguing little book called &#8216;The Book of Questions&#8217;. It was full of questions. No answers. But, it made you think about what was most important to you.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my list of questions for a Business Owner&#8230; Just questions, no answers. But, it <em>should<\/em> make you think!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you really a risk taker? Really?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have the right DNA to run a business of your own?<\/li>\n<li>Are you leveraging the &#8216;Long Tail&#8217; enough? <em>(If you don&#8217;t know what that means, do look it up)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>What keeps you from investing in the idea\/venture\/business?<\/li>\n<li>Should you be a franchisee? Why aren&#8217;t you one already?<\/li>\n<li>Should you be a franchiser? \u00a0Why aren&#8217;t you one already?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have the systems and processes needed to build a team and empower them?<\/li>\n<li>Are you afraid of delegating control?<\/li>\n<li>Are you aware of the opportunities that surround\u00a0you? Really aware?<\/li>\n<li>What are you doing to tap into the opportunities around you?<\/li>\n<li>What skills don&#8217;t you have? Which ones don&#8217;t you want to build yourself? What are you doing to acquire them?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you want to start\/grow your business?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know what your sweet spot is in terms of scale of operations?<\/li>\n<li>What is the worst that can happen if you fail at this? And then, fail again?<\/li>\n<li>Will you be able to manage\u00a0the social adjustments needed when you shift from a &#8220;job&#8221; to a &#8220;business&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think owning\/starting a business means <em>less<\/em> work than working for an employer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time for some introspection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I came across an intriguing little book called &#8216;The Book of Questions&#8217;. It was full of questions. No answers. But, it made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-blog","tag-entrepreneurship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}