Tuesday, August 17, 2010

REFLECTION: "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"

 What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?

Steve Jobs is a great groundbreaking person passionately in the fields of technopreneurship. But with all the abilities and capabilities that Steve Jobs does, it must have factors and considerations take along him in success and failure as a technopreneur.


The following are the aspects partake in success of Steve Jobs according to the website which I browsed, followed by the expounding of it rendered on my own words and understanding:

1.Do what you love to do.If you are doing what you really love to do, you may not feel bored rigid and feel uninterested. Just like Jobs do the same things which he really love to do until he got what he really wants.

2.Be different. Every person has a unique identity, in connection with this, to be a good technopreneur, you have to think in differently way the best among the others think of he best they can.

3.Do your best. Of course if you had think the best way in a well-oriented, then its time for you to work your plan. Steve Jobs gets creepy on the things he wants to obtain. Even his personnel felt the pressure of doing their finest.

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Make an analysis. This a analysis is a list of strengths and weaknesses of Jobs and the rest of his company mates. If you have the evaluation of these things, then it’s up to you to modify and amend those worst ideas into a better one.

5.Be entrepreneurial. Yes! Be an entrepreneurial in a character and attitude, don’t afraid to take the risk or even great challenges because these will bring you into picking in the bunch. Don’t be afraid to fail and learn from it.

6.Start small, think big. Thereis no successful person I think which start to a great extent. Otherwise,big timers start in a simple way at the beginning. And its up to them howthey handle their wealth wisely. Like Jobs, he simply starts in a small enterprise yet in the end he found the big career waiting on him.

7.Strive to become a Market leader. Own and control the primary technology in everything you do. Be the first! Though anyone can make the same concept you have but you have to amend your work more terribly and awful.

8.Focus on the outcome. Of course more importantly think of the results you have doing. If it fits to the necessity and taste of the consumer. Advertise your work; interface should have a big impact to the buyer. Don’t be fooled by the influences of the people around you. Don’t go with the flow. Just go on your way.

9.Ask for feedback. Feedback is essentials on you as a technopreneur. Ask them what they are going to response back the products on you. Some of them are afraid of telling the truth. Its normal. But focus first to the customer you have. Listen to them.

10. Innovative. What does this innovative mean, this means new and creative, especially in the way that something is done. Your outcome as a result to your product must have the standard and reliable to use often by customers. Quality standard! Concentrate on really important creations and radical innovation. Hire people who want to make the best things in the world. You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together. 

11. Learn from failures. Failure are normal; at least you have something to learn from it. And surely you’ll never ever try to do the same mistake in many times. Jobs as an technopreneur had some mistakes, still strongly believing in himself

12.Learn continually. With great frequency and regularity. Learning doesn’t have an ending. It is infinite. Well its up to you if you still alive endlessly.(Impossible) Moving forward. Don’t look back and waste on regretting the past. Instead face the present and decide or plan for the future in continually progressing what you have.

In contrast, the following are the aspects partake in failure of Steve Jobs followed by the expounding of it rendered on my own words and understanding: 

1.Being greedy. Yes! Steve Jobs is one of the people who is so greedy in terms of position and name in technopreneurship industry. He was blind with money.

2.Don’t care on others. Not knowing his responsibility being the boss, should partake the feelings and opinions of others especially on his employees part. Times is important but consider the excuses normally come in daily activity.

3. Doing unnecessarything. Prior to the outcome. Think of the obligation you have to face onwards. Separate the family trouble either Jobs!

4.Senseless. There are things which Steve Jobs has nothing to be result in a good manner. Like what he did on thcompetitive employee once been tried to apply. In stead of asking him formally, Steve Jobs catechize the nonsense questions with non sense humor. Badly Steve!

5.Short tempered. I notice once or in many times if I’m not mistaken that Steve Jobs got his attitude of being short temper and hard to handle with. That’s one of the reasons why his friends being far stop negotiating with Jobs. Also his employee got him very wrongly.

These are the factors which I think brings Steve Jobs in success then suddenly failure of his own work in Apple as a manager. His characteristic being further more by most innovative, creative and out breaking Bill Gates Bill Gates is known by citizens in the First World and in the third World and everywhere in between. He moves easily from technical discussions to matters of individual survival. Its easier to understand why Bill Gates should be deemed the most influential person in 2006. Not knowing this day he still belongs to richest but not on the top either.


Reference:

www.leader_corporate_12_success_rules_sj.com


 How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?

Being a technopreneur seems never that easy. Then I’m not ready to be it. As a student, I have lots of stuff to be knowledgeable about technopreneurship.
Younger as me should not be bother and think that ignorance is a hindrance to plan my work and work my plan. I agree to the saying that “ignorance is not an excuse”. Though I am the person that afraid in such a heavy task, but if I have the courage and reliant on me there is nothing more to be afraid of.

Years from now, I can see myself who is being technology groundbreaking, creative, innovative and very passionate about the field of technopreneur. (I hope I’m not in my day dreaming, don’t I?) One thing is for sure why loads of people (like me) crave for and be after of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, it’s because of money. Quickly earning money now a day are really ridiculous. Fortunately there are some personality which they strive and enthusiast in learning experience, a stimulator to look things differently and stride for next challenge. And I must learn and eager to those things mentioned above.
If I deem myself next in technopreneurship, I must agree I don’t even have an idea to start and provoke handling a business technically. I swear! Nevertheless, having an Elective 1 Technopreneurship alleviate the learning’s of as student. Thanks to the concerned. Looking around the world and find ourselves in a continually shrinking global society. How do we think it first to start with if we don’t have even a small piece of idea how it works. A good deal of what goes on in our world can be getting into internationally within seconds of its existence. This interconnectedness allows us to respond to one another in a time efficient manner.

However, this requires high level and professional development programs and training to produce well strategic thinkers especially students who will have the skills to succeed in an animatedly changing global environment in a technological manner. According to some website I had surf, “traditional educational programs, however, lack the methodology to transform today's students into creative, innovative, visionary global leaders who understand the importance of technopreneurship”. “These programs should focus on what workers and professionals should be able to do. These include functioning on multidisciplinary teams, communicating effectively, acquiring updated knowledge of technological developments, and understanding the basic technical concepts and there new applications and improvements”. [1] We have to face this snag accordingly. Information technology professionals
ponder a great way helping the needs of lacking potentials of students. As our professors shared his concept to us, we should not be simply as an employee as what we suppose to be in our future but to obtain to be an employer sooner.

“Technology is simply defined as applications of knowledge to human work”. [2]As I understand this concept by the Peter F. Ducker, technology which plays an important role on us should way used in technopreneurship as an application of expertise and skill of a well-oriented technopreneur. Well I guess we have a right choice to a part of this subject. Still I’m thinking of the right choice of business to incline with. But there are obstructions on my part; it’s the characters of having fear to take risk and great challenges. That maybe my ideas would not work and surely not corresponds to the needs and wants of most customers or consumers.

First activity we had is to visit or site some food chain merchandise then observe and scrutinize the development of the said food chain. I got Greenwhich to choose among those. As I wrote in my assignment I examine lots of progression more technically on it. Robotic, moving, screen menu table and soon and I realize longer, are these things get seems possible to have on my own objection and solution? Yes! Technology in Philippines is unhurriedly or slowly moving forward unlike to some big and high-tech nations. Unfortunately as I viewed the latest gadgets in my generation, my industrial mindset are already late to equip off. Gadgets that we expect to exist are already hand-me-down by the advance nations such U.S and Japan. How can I be a technopreneur if those ideas I mentioned above doesn’t fit the necessity of the people here in the Philippines which involve in most corrupt
nation. Even the basic essentials of people such foods do lacks them, what more if I myself don’t have just human resources such capital in negotiating technological business.

“In an era of man-made brainpower industries, individual, corporate, and national economic success will all require both new and more extensive skills sets than have been required in the past . By themselves skills don't guarantee success. They have to be put together in successful organizations. But without skills and technopreurship there are no successful organizations.” [3] As I understand the stated line given by Manuel Cereijo . We have also to focus the industrial skills of an individual not only in academic inside in a four-cornered room. Field trips and seminars for me may vary the exposure
of the students in technological and technopreneurship fields. Some multi-millioner company should have chosen to visit for us to know howechnology helps human property engage in widely profitable technopreneurial skills. As a newly individual encounters this subject getting confused and wonder how it works and result a product that will surely bring to the person into fame and influence by power like Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Steve Jobs got. A process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, or an organization that is what technopreneurship does.

So how can someone like me is going to be a good competitive technopreneur person if I personally don’t have the skills to be developed and to be progress. We should be individually equipped by the matter around technopreneurship which involved in delivering an innovative hi-tech product, by a large part, still a entrepreneurship. Morally upright with virtues, technically open-minded to technological complication, we should be able to reach beyond what we expect to obtain.

References:
Manuel Cereijo, July 3, 2002 [1] & [3] quotations
Peter F. Ducker, November 29, 2006 [2] quotation



Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?

Recalling this publicly heartbreaking episode Jobs said,

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being
successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

These heartbreaking lines touch my senses of what he has during his point in time of realizing what he had on his life. He apprehends the things which he has nothing to do it but taking for granted. His successful was replaced by the status of being a beginner it was suddenly at his 30 however, was fired from
the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with Apple’s CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had recruited from Pepsi Cola).

Instead of losing hope on his own battle, he just keep on believing to convinced that the only thing that kept he going was that Steve Jobs loved what he did. Steve got to find what he really loves. And that is as true for his work as it is for his lovers. His work is going to fill a large part of his own life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Taking the same career path that Steve Jobs took wasn’t that easy. But I will let my self grasp what he took of being a good technopreneur. Yes! I will confidently taking risks and consequences of a technopreneur. Working and earning my own money is one of my goals in this early age. Like me, people may think seriously of my future. Of course life is not a joke. But sometimes people don't know how to do it. Well in fact the things we need is just around us. We keep on looking for money and we are looking for it badly. Sadly, we don't really know about earning through technology. Technopreneurship, sounds weird right? But that is how it's called. And that’s the one way how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs shared and lead them in their own lives.

Yes! I am one of the billion people who don’t know and tried either to catches and hatches his eggs through the use of internet. As we go along in our lives we usually didn’t notice the importance of the negotiating business on his own time own place manipulated by the internet. Internationally numerous people or users get through browsing and surfing daily in the internet. Most of the time they are regularly (me also) visit and be entertained by number of social websites such as Facebook as one of the famous online sites diverting the users in such activities like chatting and drop their messages, announcements or even gossips on their profile. In stead of flick through different sites, why not engaging and interacting numerous people around the world. We have blogging, web developing, web designing and soon. Steve Jobs have the courage and determinacy succeeding this field and forming his own career. Though Jobs faces difficulties and problems along his journey, he never gives up. That’s one of the character ought to be and be after him.

Technopreneurship is the key to earn money through technology. Apple and Microsoft are the creative products it had. The word came from 2 different words. First, technology, and next is entrepreneurship, where it means business with the use of technology in its invention. People are really struggling for survival but we don't know that the stuffs that could save us from total distraction and broke is just beside us. Yes just beside us, we only need a computer and an internet connection. That's how amazing it is. And worst of it lots of people don't see this stuff and have no plan for their future. How could this be? first thing's first, There are lots of offers in the internet, ranging from advertising to affiliate business to freelance writing and now how could you say it's impossible to do. A s I’ve mentioned above blogging is one way of expressing and articulating ones ideas. We learn and finally at the moment we enhance and go on with this stuff we eventually earn money on our own account. Not just that we may employ our own employee.

In the same path of Steve Jobs its seems like impossible to race and obtain the same advance technology as he did in Apple. We are fully equipped with this high tech gadgets, software and hardware under their expertise. We couldn’t imagine competing with the same field in technopreneurship. How come?
Being technopreneur is really the things people consider now. Most especially the numbers of unemployed people, even fresh graduates with degrees and diplomas aren’t have work at this time. According to the sites I viewed, by these times that we have job inflation rate and based on statistics, here in Philippines, we have 13,000,000 people jobless. Yes, but sad to say, it is the reality. Poorly Filipinos. Being a Technoprenuer really helps this kind of situation. Why? Because when we start a business, we could hire our fellowmen as our employees and we can give job to them. Apparently we can help the needy people with less creer jobs opportunities. So we help ourself to have a financial freedom and at the same time, we help other people too. We don’t need to be standardize technopreneur same with Steve Jobs, nut we should help or self and also one another forming our future technically advanced. Now, do we really need to become a Technopreneur? It is our choice of course. Its up to us how we handle and be ready taking risk and challenges just to strive in our lives. We recognize and idolized Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Steve Jobs on their victory. Two thumbs up for them!

Reference:
www.hubpages.com/hub/Technopreneurship

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