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This is an assignment for my Small Business/ Entrepreneur class. I have to perform an interview with a...?

...small business owner. Please answer these three questions the best you can. Thank you and have a good day 1. How did you come to perceive your personal opportunity and act on it (and what encouraged or deterred this)? 2. How do you see yourself fitting the stereotypical profile of a small business owner, or do you see yourself in a different light? 3. What do you sondier to have been the most critical success(and critical failure) factors for your venture opportunity?

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1. i teach kids how to write computer games ... http://www.funutation.com i was doing a presentation for parents on home based computer security and a parent asked if I teach kids how to write computer games. I ran a couple camps, and voila, still doing it after 4 years. 2. always plenty to do, and not enough money to do it...hustle for every dollar 3. success - the right team, failure - not enuf money, and the wrong team
2. I have two business's one is a Computer Consulting Company and the other is a Contracting Company. The first business I started in 1988 when computers were just beginning to become popular in small business. The small business's were being overlooked. I focused on that area, installing computers, transferring the accounts, etc from paper to computerized accounts and then teaching them how to use them, also taught basic accounting. As a small business owner in that type of business I fit the profile and was accepted . I viewed my business as a part time one and did not actively seek clients. I also found it difficult to charge the fees that were the rate at that time. ($75.00 ph) and would often charge a flat rate instead. My contracting business really was created out of need, My husband and I were hired to construct a house and had to hire people to assist us. I handled the finances and also worked as a carpenter. I had a difficult time convincing people that a WOMAN was capable and good at carpentry, and even when they realized I knew what I was doing, They did not want to pay me the wages that a man in the same job would get. a man $20. ph while they only wanted to pay me $14. ph. Although I handled billing, wages etc. We did not make what we should have. Again it is very hard to put a value on your time.