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• INTERVIEW AN ENTREPRENEUR This assignment is due November 28, 2016 at 6:00 am in the drop box. Please select one entrepreneur to interview. The person you interview should be the founder of the company. The organization must be a for-profit business. You should be sure this person will cooperate with you as they will be asked to answer several questions. It is important to begin working on this assignment very soon in the semester as it will take some coordination to do well. You only need to interview one (1) entrepreneur, but please be sure to ask them all of the following questions. Use the following outline for this assignment: 1. Introduction. Who is the Entrepreneur? Dean Gemberling - IHS Computers’ owner. He is married, has one son who is in the army in California. His wife helps him all the time on their business. IHS Computers is a business listed in Columbus, GA. The principal business activity of the company is Computer Maintenance and Repair. This corporation has an estimate annual revenue of approximately $3,000,000.00.1 Dean Gemberling and Judi Gemberling founded IHS Computers in 1996. The had the confidence that clients want to do business with a company where people tell the truth, care about customers, and are more focused on reputation than money. Their staf keeps their word and guarantees customers’ 100 percent satisfaction.2 2. Ask and answer all of the questions (there are over 40). Please ensure you have typed each question and typed an answer for each question by the entrepreneur (If the entrepreneur declines simply indicate so and provide a reason if they offer one). I ask you to do that because I can be both more efficient and more effective grading each interview if I have a pattern I can follow. 1 http://www.usacorporates.com/us/business/ihs-computers/cz5A9maI 2 http://www.ihscomputers.com/ihs-computers-about-us.html Luz Adriana Bernal Entrepreneurship MBA 6070 Fall 2016 QUESTIONS 1) Would you tell me about yourself before you started your first venture? He graduated from the United States Military Academy WestPoint in 1993, served on active duty with the United States Army until 1998 and achieved the rank of Captain, resigned his commission in 1998 and went to work for Swift Textiles a local denim factory. He got involved with a company called AL William, that was a financial/marketing company that leaded with life insurances. He met his wife in 1996, got married, and started the company. 2) Whom else did you know while you were growing up who had started or owned a business, and how did they influence you? Anyone later, after you were 21 years old? Growing up, his grandfather on his dad’s side was a self-employed painting contractor in Bufalo, New York. That was the only information he knew but he did not know nor realize all the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur. His father started a T-Shirt transfer business after he moved to Arizona but Mrs. Dean Gemberling did not get into details. After 21 years old, his brother-in-law and one uncle who were also self-employed. 3) Were your parents, relatives, or close friends entrepreneurial? How so? His father was an entrepreneur, started a T-Shirt transfer business after he moved to Arizona. However, he did not stay in the business for so long but it was an interested field, T-Shirt were popular at that point on time and doing the transfers and the logos were too. 4) Did you have role models? Arthur Williams, he was the person who st