Three students named Syed Imran Hussain, Muhammad Farhan, and Waleed Ahmed Siddiqui contact an entrepreneur to fill out a questionnaire as part of their business administration coursework on entrepreneurship. They provide a framework for the entrepreneur to outline their business timeline from starting their business in 2003 to the present, including key events, challenges faced, and lessons learned at each stage of growth. The framework also includes questions about the business overview, the entrepreneur's background and interests, funding, marketing, hiring, competitors, and future plans.

1. Hello!
We’re contacting you to ask if you might be able to fill in our interview document (below). We are
conducting interview with entrepreneurs that makes us interested in setting up our own
businesses.
To explain further, our names are Syed Imran Hussain, Muhammad Farhan and Waleed Ahmed
Siddiqui . We are Master in Business Administration from Indus University, respectively. This
interview is also a part of our course “Enterprenuership”.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and we hope to hear from you soon,of
Kind regards,
Syed Imran Hussain, Muhammad Farhan and Waleed Ahmed Siddiqu.
Below is only a suggested framework for your thoughts so feel free to edit as you see fit. The general
questions have been included at the end but when we feel the greatest value-add will be in the
timeline section when you can talk about (month to month even) your business’ development.
BUSINESS OVERVIEW QUESTIONS
What is the business?
GAK Technologies
When did you found it?
2003
Where is the business now?

2. BACKGROUND/PRE-CURRENT BUSINESS
What were you like in school?
Any extra-curricular
activities?
Book Reading, Internet, New Peoples meetup
Any significant
experiences/skills that (with
hindsight) influenced your
business?
10 years Exp
Any previous entrepreneurial
experience? Lessons learnt?
NO
What appealed to you about
entrepreneurship?
Work with own peace of mind with no boss
BUSINESS TIMELINE
 Please use this as a skeleton to flesh out whatever you feel is relevant. Also please feel free
to edit the month-quarter , Start time , middle (break-eventime) and present skeleton as you
see fit.
 Main events can be used to detail the facts of what happened in the month. Challenges can
be used to detail surprises or things that didn’t go to plan (from anything as varied to hiring

3. decisions, mistakes etc.). Lessons learnt/change in strategy section should be self-explanatory.
Starting of
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SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT BUSINESS (IF NOT ANSWERED ABOVE)

6.  If you feel that extension explanation is required please include as much as you see fit. For
example if funding your business involved talking to venture capitalists how did you apply
for the seed funding? How did you prepare? Who did you go to for advice?
What was the moment when
you took action?
How did you get the idea?
My mind was into it since I was in Matric
How has your idea
progressed over time?
Was very good
How did you find your co-founders
(if applicable)?
Not applicable
How did you fund the
business?
My own investment which I have saved from my jobs.
How did you market your
business?
Through Internet
How did you choose who to
hire (if applicable)?
Who fits exact on requirements and as per skill set

7. Who are your main
competitors?
A TO Z
4M
What have you learnt from
your competitors (both
successes and failures)?
Learnt Team Work from Competitors
What does a typical day
involve for you? How does
that compare to your team (if
applicable). How has this
changed over time?
When job is not done on time
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS (INCLUDE WHY IF APPLICABLE)
Favourite books?
Quran, Romeo and Juliet, The Stranger
Favourite movies? A Perfect Getaway, House At The End Of The Street, Red 2
Favourite entrepreneurs? Bill Gates, Steve Jobs

8. Best piece of advice? Never Give up
Common misconceptions about
your business/entrepreneurship
in general?
Important skills to learn (how go
about)? Experiences to have?
Management
WHAT’S NEXT?
What is next for your
business?
Branch all over the world
What next for you?
Thanks again for taking the time to fill this in. Any feedback about how to improve the questionnaire
or anything else please feel free to email us at madiha_aslam@ymail.com
Kind regards,
Syed Imran Hussain
Muhammad Farhan
Waleed Ahmed Siddiqui.