QUESTIONS??? that I subjected myself to!
1.Your Name: Dominic Fernandez
2.Name of Your Business venture: Computants Inc --- http://www.computants.org/
3.Address Of Your Business: Ontario, Canada --- Mumbai, India
4.Date Of interview: April 16, 2009
5.What Product or sevice do you sell? Process Integration, ERP, CRM as SaaS
6.How long have you been in this business? 20+ years.
7.Why did you start this venture?
--- Time for Money, love to be paid for what is decided upon - projected-oriented.
8.Why did you think that there would be an oppurtunity for you to develop this type of business
--- getting IT done since 1984 --- never looked back!
9.Please relate three of the main obstacles that you had to overcome before you got started.
--- 'color', non-acceptance, and the list goes on.....
10.Would You call yourself an entrepreneur? To the CORE!
11.What do you enjoy most about your business? getting IT done ---- providing solutions that satisfy!
12.What is the most difficult aspect of your business? Marketing, expanding --- more revenue.
13.Whats the best thing about your business? People-n-Technology
14.Whats the worst thing? "dry days" ---- not enough work!
15.What kinds of skills do you use most in your business?
--- Listening, questioning, understanding, suggesting
16.Which of these skills did you have to learn since starting this business?
--- All, it's an ongoing process
17.What advice would you give to a person who would like to become an entrepreneur?
--- It's not for the faint-hearted, "... when the going gets tough, the TOUGH get going!"