33 Essential Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Ask
Decision Making & Planning
1.Global Top 5 Research Comparison: Have we conducted a comparative study with the global top 5 before making decisions and planning?
2.Plan Details: What is our plan, and have we set limits on expenses and time?
3.Forecasting Outcomes: Based on the current situation, what do we predict the outcome to be in one year?
4.Baseline Data for Forecasting: What baseline data have we established this period to enhance forecasting?
5.Tenfold Speed Work Plan: What is our new work plan for achieving tenfold speed this period?
6.Resource Allocation: Have we invested our resources, including time, in the most critical work?
7.New Designs for Products, Management, and Organization: Any new design plans for products, management, or organization?
8.Input-Output Ratio Ranking: How do we rank this period’s input-output ratio?
9.Effort for Change: What are the choices where 20% of the effort can lead to 80% of the change?
10.KISS List: Have we made a KISS (Keep, Improve, Stop, Start) list?

User Interaction & Social Engagement
11.User Interaction Quality: How well are we doing in terms of user interaction, and how crucial is it to stay connected to users?
12.Social Benefits for Business: What gains have we made in social aspects that boost our business?
13.Helping Others: Whom have we helped?

Advantage & Innovation
14.Unique and Defensible Work: What work have we done that has unique and defensible ("moat") value?

Execution & Reflection
15.Peer Review: Has all our work been peer-reviewed?
16.Identifying Major Future-Impacting Issues: What potential major issues impacting the future have we discovered?
17.Plan Execution: How is the plan execution, especially in terms of quality, cost, and time?
18.Biggest Gains and Failures: What are our biggest gains and failures?
19.Potential Blind Efforts: Which efforts might be blind or futile?
20.Mistakes in Effort vs. Choice: Have we made the mistake of prioritizing effort over choice, means over ends?
21.Negligence and Impulsiveness: What instances of negligence, carelessness, impulsiveness, vanity, and impetuosity have we encountered?
22.Valuable New Information: What new valuable information have we acquired recently?
23.Shortsighted Actions: What actions have we taken this period that might be shortsighted?
24.Focusing on Essentials: Has our ability to focus on key points and essentials improved?
25.Simplification by Subtraction: What parts of our work can we eliminate through simplification?
26.Signs of Potential Danger: What minor signs could potentially spell significant trouble?
27.Risk Reserve and Hazardous Actions: What have we done regarding risk redundancy reserves and taken risks?
28.Profit Calculation: Have we clearly calculated this period's input-output profit?
29.Cognitive Breakthroughs: What breakthroughs in cognition have we achieved?
30.Proactive Actions: What proactive actions have we taken this period, and what are the lessons learned?
31.Friction and Trial Costs: What are the biggest costs of friction and trial-and-error?
32.Delays Due to Indecision: What serious delays have been caused by hesitation?
33.Correcting Previous Mistakes: Have we corrected previous mistakes?

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