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12 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask Before Writing a Business Plan

Tina Wells
by  Tina Wells
January 28, 2011
12 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask Before Writing a Business Plan
Who’s your direct and indirect competition? Here’s a tip, you always have an indirect competitor; your customer can choose to simply not spend money. So there is always competition. It’s not impressive to investors to hear that you think you have no competition. We all have competition in business.

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